Word: presentation
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Still, the Canadian system has a good deal going for it. Citizens are issued a health card by the government, and they present it when they receive care. Doctors process claims much as retailers handle credit-card transactions. The government then pays the doctor with money that comes largely from taxes. "Once somebody's in the system," says Dr. Graham Pineo, an A.C.P. officer from Canada, "the payments flow regularly." Only a few services are excluded. Among them: private or semiprivate hospital rooms, drugs prescribed outside the hospital, eyeglasses and wheelchairs, and pre-employment and insurance examinations...
...reaction may say as much about medical politics as about medical policy. Until recently the A.M.A. dominated the field. Now it is being challenged. Says Ball: "Other medical groups still believe in the politics of the past. That's when medicine could demand its way. The politics of the present and the future is when medicine and other elements of society sit down equally to solve a societal problem...
...welcome this blunt depiction of history received in Moscow is bound to be reassuring. Says its author: "The most important question now is what legacy we are rejecting. This play is a firm rejection of Stalinism." It is also a poignant and at times eerily apt echo of the present -- as when Lenin and his colleagues sadly conclude that the apparent Communist revolution in Germany, where Marx expected his workers' revolt to start, is instead a brief outpouring of rage and envy from a still conservative people. This Lenin says his duty is to feed, clothe, house and employ...
Call those meddlesome government officials Mongolia's past and the enterprising Jiguur the future. The present is just as Jiguur experiences it: a country trying, by fits and starts, to make a graceful transition from orthodox communism to something approximating democracy. Since last December, reform-minded Mongolians have been pressuring their leaders for ever faster economic and political change. In response, the ruling Communist Party has opened Mongolia's doors to foreign investment and ceded its monopoly on power, giving rise to more than a dozen pro-democracy parties. Activists insist that the changes are merely cosmetic. But measured against...
...Delay production of the Advanced Tactical Fighter from 1994 to 1996, but not cut the planned 750-plane, $79 billion program. Some congressional experts think the Air Force's present F-15 interceptor could last another decade...