Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Funds are derived from a 12% social security levy on payrolls, half contributed by employees and half by employers. Patients may choose any doctor. Doctors merely sign forms with which patients claim reimbursement from their insurance. By now an ingrained habit, the principle of health insurance is beyond political argument...
...Zealand has had compulsory insurance since 1938. Costs come from a general social security levy of 7.5% on all incomes. Nearly 2,000,000 New Zealanders are entitled to free medical care except for specialist services. Most telling criticism has been that doctors are doing so well financially that they neglect research and spurn lower-paying hospital posts...
Like many a Broadway and Hollywood contemporary, Actor Kawarasaki had a tickling Marxian social conscience. He organized a new Kabuki troupe called the Zenshinza (Forward-Looking Theater), set up shop in a sleek, modern playhouse outside Tokyo, defied tradition by hiring women actors to play female parts and began mixing Western dramas with the Japanese classics. When V-J brought democracy officially to Japan, Democrat Kawarasaki was ready with a full-fledged production of John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln (TIME...
Shocked, Dean Robert W. Kenny last week suspended all fraternity social activities until further notice. Non-fraternity men, who outnumber the Greeks two to one, held a mass meeting, raised the question of whether Brown should have fraternities...
Smith's new president is Benjamin Fletcher Wright, a bush-browed, pipe-smoking social scientist who looks younger than his 49 years. He was born in Texas, went to Texas public schools (in Austin) and the University of Texas, spent World War I as a private in Texas, and married a Dallas girl. In the early '20s, he took a Harvard Ph.D., later moved north and joined Harvard's faculty as an instructor in government...