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...first $40 and for up to 60 days at a time. In Medicare's first few months, hospitals complained that they were kept waiting so long for payment that they were being bankrupted. Now all parties have learned to process the masses of paper more expeditiously, and SSA asserts that it gets a check out in ten days, on the average...
Medicare has enrolled 19.1 million elderly Americans under Part A, and on any one day 200,000 of them are in a hospital-roughly, one out of 20. In all, 6,000,000 patients have piled up 7,500,000 hospital admissions at a total cost to the SSA of $3 billion. In a few hospitals, this means twice as many over-65 patients as there were before Medicare, with a national average of 20% more; they stay an average of two days longer than before...
...ssa Maritain, philosopher. . . LL.D...
Successful JMA and SSA candidates school apply on their own initiative for positions in specific departments, and once placed are promoted within six months or "advised to work elsewhere." The majority of successful candidates, he added, have risen rapidly since the program's inauguration three years...
...Sorbonne, Jacques and Raïssa Maritain had recoiled from the materialist philosophies of their professors. They had even brooded about a suicide pact, until Philosopher Henri Bergson's lectures opened their eyes to the possibility of a truth beyond reason. Then they read two of Bloy's books. Wrote Maritain: "All the values we gave to things were put in different places, as if by the turning of an invisible switch. We knew . . . from then on that 'there is but one sadness, and that is, not to be of the saints' . . ." Maritain and his wife...