Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Still appearing in print is one of the Lampoon's graduated greats, Peter Gabel '68, who writes in this issue a play based on the idea that working class laborers dislike the student rebels who claim to be their allies. This is a good example of where the Lampoon's ideas are OK, but not particularly interesting...
...subsidize the convalescence of the ailing aged. For an oldster who has been in a hospital at least three days, Medicare will pay nearly all costs for 100 days in an approved nursing home. In most states Medicaid picks up the bills for the low-income aged who need still longer stays...
...million in 1967 to $17.4 million last year. Some chains have ambitious expansion plans. Four Seasons Nursing Centers of America, a 40-home Oklahoma chain that has grossed more than $6,000,000 in fiscal 1968, is negotiating to borrow $45 million to promote a home franchising program. Still other companies have shown enough growth potential to become takeover targets. International Chemical & Nuclear Corp. two weeks ago agreed to buy Monterey Nursing Inns, a 31-home Ohio chain with 1968 revenues of $3,000,000. The price: an estimated $45 million, an astonishing 209 times Monterey's fiscal...
Medicare and Medicaid payments are no guarantee of profitability. The American Nursing Home Association says that Medicare paperwork has become so snarled that some homes are still waiting for reimbursement for their 1967 bills. All payments are subject to adjustment after Government auditors define just what nursing-home costs are "reasonable"; quite a few chains have not set aside reserves for possible rebates. Some flatly turn down Medicare recipients, whose payments for basic care generally range from $1015 a day. Private patients...
Ultimately, the sense of pain and loss conveyed by the book is profound. All Pharr's characters are destroyed in one way or another, even Blueboy. "We made a terrible mistake," he says on his deathbed. "We forgot that white folks is still here. We forgot we was operating in America." Less totally true than it once was, perhaps, the author's inescapable moral still seems timely enough: crime may sometimes pay, but being black never does...