Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Little Rock, he reached Magaziner at a miniature-golf course near his home in Providence, Rhode Island, where he was relaxing with his children. He located Bruce Reed at Georgetown University Hospital, where his own health-care bill was rising while his wife was undergoing tests for a stomach ailment. He found Joshua Wiener, a Brookings Institution fellow, clipping hedges at his home in Washington. Wiener grabbed some of his kids' purple-dinosaur scratch paper and, at his kitchen table, retabulated the costs and savings one more time. He figured Clinton needed $50 billion for a bare-bones benefit package...
...Michaela Odone might have improved the condition of their son Lorenzo, 14, who suffers from a degenerative nerve illness called adrenoleukodystrophy. Now a two-year study from France concludes that the remedy, named for the Odones' son, is worthless -- at least for the milder, adult form of the ailment. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Patrick Aubourg and his colleagues from the St. Vincent de Paul Hospital in Paris report that they could find no improvement in 24 patients who had taken Lorenzo's oil for up to 48 months...
...forms to fill out, to cite one. To the uninsured, the reforms provide a chance to buy policies now unavailable. Many states, for example, are sharply restricting the ability of insurance companies to turn down applicants because of a "pre-existing condition" (insurance jargon meaning they already have an ailment that is expensive to treat, perhaps kidney disease or multiple sclerosis). And for everybody -- patients, taxpayers, state officials, business executives -- the reforms promise, eventually at least, a slowdown in the relentless rise of medical costs that keeps kiting up insurance premiums and patients' bills and biting into state budgets...
...Mexico and into Arizona and Utah. Of the 11 who have died, nine are Indians. The outbreak came to light last month, when a young Navajo man fell ill on his way to the funeral of his 24-year-old girlfriend, who had died from a curious flulike ailment. Five days later, the man himself was dead; the couple's infant son was also stricken but survives...
...always sick. "The doctor more or less said that she was just born with a screwed-up immune system," says Joanne. She had a bodywide eczema starting in infancy, rheumatic fever and meningitis in childhood, a progressive eye ailment in her later years...