Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prevent such abuses, doctors and ethicists suggest banning the sale of fetal tissue worldwide and prohibiting women from designating who would receive their fetus' organs. Once such safeguards are in place, however, they believe that physicians can properly use tissue from abortuses for research and treatment. Except in the case of miscarriages, Dr. John Willke, president of the National Right to Life Committee, vehemently disagrees. "The abuse is not in the sale of those tissues," he says, "but in killing the baby in the first place." Janice Raymond, professor of women's studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst...
...Westside Preparatory School with her own brand of rules. Chewing gum is out: "If they insist on chewing gum, we have them do a paper on the etymology of the word gum." Any cocky youngster who walks into Westside with a defiant swagger, or wearing gang jewelry, gets special treatment: "I put my arm on their shoulder and say, 'Darling, is your hip broken?' Or, 'You're going to have to take out that earring...
...Government first challenged the sky's-the-limit pricing practiced by hospitals in 1983. Congress enacted a set of maximum fees that it would pay for various kinds of treatment for Medicare patients. Because the hospitals made a profit only if they performed the procedures for less, they had an incentive to send patients home as soon as possible. Major insurance companies soon followed suit with their own cost ceilings, and employers devised incentives to encourage employees to reduce the time they spent in hospitals. For one thing, they required second opinions before elective surgery...
Spotting a promising new line of business, hospital corporations opened so- called satellite clinics, many in residential areas. The neighborhood centers found a clientele among workers who were impressed by the convenience and availability of treatment. Says Bernard Tresnowski, president of Blue Cross and Blue Shield: "The incentives for outpatient treatment were so strong that people took advantage of them...
They no longer need emergency treatment out in Iowa, but they want some help as they weave modern industry and service into the old, faltering heartland matrix of small towns and family farms. These crafty Iowans have stopped feeling sorry for themselves because of the agriculture price collapse and have begun hustling. They make gin and vodka out of surplus corn, and they are thinking about growing strawberries and snails as well as soybeans. There are deer herds in the valleys, and the pheasant population is 2 million, which is not like hogs (13.8 million) or cattle (4.6 million...