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...HMOs, compensation to doctors for their services comes directly from the administrative office instead of the patient. Some HMOs automatically withhold a portion of medical fees and keep the funds in escrow until year's end. Then, if there is a surplus, participating physicians may get raises or bonuses. Doctors are subject to continuing scrutiny by their fellow physicians to ensure that they avoid expensive diagnostic tests that are not required. This encourages them to prescribe only what is necessary, thereby helping to hold down costs for everyone...
MINNESOTA. The only retiring Midwestern Republican who faced a clear possibility of defeat this year, Albert Quie, 58, a staunch but low-key Reagan backer, has seen Minnesota's budget drop from a $292 million surplus in 1979 to a deficit that is expected to reach $800 million by summer. This happened even though Quie, who campaigned on a promise to cut taxes in a state many thought was recession-proof, was eventually forced to reverse himself and raise them as the economy faltered. Quie's popularity plunged. As his campaign manager quaintly put it, the Governor decided...
...three funds together took in $178.2 billion in 1981, or $3.1 billion more than they paid out during the period. Defenders of Social Security benefits sometimes cite this surplus as proof that there is no crisis. But Social Security's trustees* have warned that the disability and Medicare fund reserves are too low to guarantee the timely payment of benefits beyond "sometime during 1984," unless the system is reformed. And if the economy grows vigorously from now through the rest of the 1980s-a fiscal event very few economists are predicting-the funds will barely squeeze by, with...
...find suitable housing for its NoHo nomads. Harvard was caught largely off-guard by the current student forego leaves absence and complete their Harvard educations while tuition is still in five digits. Then again, we're not entirely sure the University's critics are wrong in suggesting that the surplus also reflects Harvard's desire to do almost any thing to bring in more cash...
Once they earn their degrees and enter the labor force, engineers know that they are in a field with low levels of joblessness, even during the worst of times. Unemployment among certain kinds of engineers does exist, though. There appears to be developing a small surplus of chemical engineers, for example, who have been hurt by the Reagan Administration's lower priority for environmental regulations. Here and there throughout the profession, there are blotches of joblessness in the pool of 1.3 million American engineers. But overall, estimates Patrick Sheridan of the Engineering Manpower Commission, engineer unemployment is no more...