Word: voucherization
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Touring in Europe these days also leaves more to individual choice. One boon for free spirits is the hotel voucher plan, available throughout Scandinavia and in Switzerland, by which travelers can choose in advance from hundreds of participating inns and hotels; a tourist is thus free to arrive with only 24 hours' prior notification. One way of escaping the formalities of hotel living is to stay at a farm or a country manor. Private agencies and government tourist commissions make such accommodations available at low prices. Many European countries offer prix fixe tourist meals that are obtainable at hundreds...
...fiscal 1984 and $20.4 billion by 1988. The Administration plan has other cost-slashing measures, including a oneyear freeze on Medicare fees paid to physicians, nominal but mandatory $1 to $2 assessments on the nation's 22.2 million Medicaid patients for doctor and hospital visits, and an optional voucher system by which Medicare benefits could be exchanged for a private insurance policy...
...Twists on Old Business. When Congress adjourned in October it left ten of its 1983 appropriations bills dangling, and a Government funded only by continuing resolution. The lameduck session probably will be asked to vote on Reagan-backed proposals to replace the public housing subsidy program with a voucher system, and to shave $1 billion from Title I, the main federal program for schoolchildren from poor families. The cut would mean that 2.5 million of the 5.4 million children currently served by the program would no longer be eligible...
...payment voucher showed that a contractor applied two coats of paint to 63,400 sq. ft. of stairwells in the GSA's Washington headquarters, even though the area involved measured only 35,000 sq. ft. at best and was never actually painted. Six weeks later the contractor billed the GSA for applying 257,000 sq. ft. of plaster to the same stairwells. Reports TIME Correspondent Gregory Wierzynski: "The staircase still looks grimy...
Going a step further, Harvard's Martin Feldstein suggests that the Government give what he euphemistically calls "youth employment scholarships to the unemployed and unskilled." Recipients would get 1,500 vouchers, which an employer could turn in to the Government in exchange for $1 each. The firm hiring and training the young person would collect one voucher per hour, thus substantially offsetting the burden of the rising minimum wage, which climbed from $2.30 to $2.65 an hour this year, and will increase to $3.35 in 1981. In the future, the vouchers might have to be worth well over $1. Says...