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Major problems remain. A first is cost: the alarm sells for $1,500; parent training sessions, social worker home visits and a 24-hour hospital team of doctor, nurse and alarm repairman can bring the final tab to a daunting $4,000. Moreover, many apnea-prone babies die from a first attack, before parents are aware of the need for medical help. Most discouraging, apnea is almost certainly not the sole cause of SIDS (one Boston specialist puts the incidence rate at anywhere from 5% to 90% of all SIDS cases), so the alarm can only be a stopgap measure...
...times still clamor to own just about everything they can possibly imagine. Cars, homes, Cuisinarts, video-cassette recorders--and if you can't afford it, then you simply buy it on credit, borrow money, get a loan, try our EZ Payment plan, Master Charge it, put it on the tab, Leo--anything. It seems the inevitable extension of the consumer age. The old Puritan Ethic might have built this place, but it's the old play-now, pay-whenever attitude that keeps everything running. It's all very pleasant. New cars wall-to-wall, French-blended food, and Mork...
...patients use CAPD. But that is likely to change. A year's dialysis at a kidney center now costs some $25,000 a patient; the dialysis bill for the nation as a whole, which is footed by the U.S. Government, totals $1 billion a year. By contrast, the tab for a CAPD patient is only about $8,000 a year, and is likely to drop as the technique becomes more popular. Says Nolph: "We have here one of those rare circumstances in modern times where something is not only potentially better, but cheaper. That combination doesn't happen...
...executive suite are going to have to accept ... the financial responsibilities of their new status," Tish writes. Still she gets rather squeamish, for a feminist, about the way a woman should pay the check after a business lunch: If she uses a credit card or signs for the tab, she should do so "quietly, no one around them need be aware of her actions." Still more surreptitious is the course she advises for a woman when she senses that the man is uncomfortable about her paying: "She should excuse herself at dessert time on the pretext of going...
...cost of TM training is about $250 a prisoner for a one-year program that includes weekly meetings and videotaped lectures. So far, TM volunteers have picked up almost all of the tab...