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...contractors are the biggest beneficiaries of the development spending. Britain's share last year is estimated at more than $400 million. Despite its oil income, Oman has had budget deficits of $20 million a year for the past two years; the Saudis have quietly picked up the tab...
...treatment provided at home or in physicians' offices. It is administered at hospitals or clinics, where nurses, lab technicians, therapists, pharmacists and other functionaries join with doctors in building mountains of medical information about the patient. To complicate matters, the patient does not pick up the hospital tab directly. That is done by insurance companies or government agencies, so-called third parties, all of whom claim a legitimate right to look into what they are paying...
...hooked up to a machine that filters toxic body wastes from the blood. The technique works, no question; the problem is money: about $25,000 a year in special centers, about half that if the treatment can be performed at home. Since 1973, the government has picked up the tab for dialysis (as well as for kidney transplant operations). The program now covers some 44,000 patients at an annual cost of more than $1 billion. By the 1980s the projection is 60,000 patients at an estimated cost exceeding $2 billion a year. Some observers wonder whether the program...
...that may soon change. Last week the national medical-insurance organization Blue Cross-Blue Shield, which pays medical bills for 112 million Americans, announced that it would pick up the tab for such tests only if the patient's physician specifically ordered them...
...marvelous. The talk was good. The food was mediocre. The wine was awful. Since so much of what happens to all the rest of us hinges on how these top fellows get along, and since they made a go of it (despite the dreary champagne), it was worth the tab, conservatively estimated at $1 million, including the stops in the provinces...