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...works of Mary Baker Eddy) from $62 to $25 a month. Last March Teacher Sutherland's brother finally insisted that she go to a hospital. The day after she was admitted, Cora Sutherland, 55, died of tuberculosis. The coroner's report showed that she had probably had TB in active form for fully two years...
...Because of the shortage of buildings, some 800,000 children are unable to go to school at all. But whether they go or not, one in every eight is suffering from TB...
...plans as the nonprofit Blue Cross and Blue Shield, there are shortcomings. Most group policies do not cover dependents over 18. Many do not provide benefits high enough to compensate for the soaring costs of hospitalization, and most do not provide long-term care for such diseases as polio, TB and cancer. Another frequent weakness: if an illness runs longer than a specified time (seldom more than 120 days), benefits stop and the patient has to wait sometimes for months before they start up again. Meanwhile, he has to pay all expenses himself, just when he can least afford...
...expenses that health insurance really counts-and where it now most often fails to pay the bill-this is the area that many companies are now concentrating on. Led by General Electric, more than 150 companies have installed "major medical" or "catastrophe" plans to cover such diseases as cancer, TB and other long illnesses. These plans are usually integrated with regular group medical insurance, which pays the first part of the bill. The employee pays the next $100 to $600, in somewhat the same way as he would pay for minor auto damage under a deductible policy. Anything over that...
...hungry much of the time. This explains why, out of 1,000 students, only 32 are of working-class parents." Meanwhile, partly because of lack of funds, 6,600 out of 7,200 Sorbonne law students quit school last year, and because of lack of proper nourishment, the student TB rate (one out of 160) has become the highest in the nation...