Word: program
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...also agreed to pay Thomas Moorer, a retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a settlement reported to be $100,000. The original program and article stated that Moorer confirmed the use of sarin during Tailwind, which he has denied...
...book or a software program impersonate a lawyer? You might not think so, but a panel supervised by the Texas supreme court is hauling in the most prominent U.S. publisher of self-help legal aids to determine if its products are doing just that. The possible culprit, Nolo Press, is a cheeky Berkeley, Calif., publisher whose logo depicts lawyers as briefcase-toting sharks with neckties. But Nolo's real crime may be putting the law into the hands of laypeople...
...first patient to benefit from the pilot program was Della O'Leary, 60, a part-time receptionist with no health insurance and an $8,000 bill for gallbladder surgery. Would she be interested in using her keyboard skills to enter data into a hospital computer? O'Leary agreed. After she worked 20 hours a week for four months, her debt was paid. "I was brought up to take care of my bills," O'Leary says. "Without this program, I was going to be paying little by little for the rest of my life...
Encouraged, the hospital last May formally launched Contract for Care, a program aimed at individuals who fall just above the federal poverty level--$1,138 a month for a family of three. So far, a dozen patients have enrolled. Nancy Cameron Dickinson, 49, whose family income was less than $16,000 last year, weeded the hospital's garden beds and helped with landscaping to pay $800 she owed after Fallopian-tube surgery. Scott Smith, 29, an uninsured ski instructor, painted the ambulance bays to pay the $5,300 surgical bill he incurred after breaking his leg in a ski accident...
...David Dixon, a surgeon in Farmington, thinks the program will encourage more people to seek medical help before they need acute care. "This is a fee-for-service with a different currency," he says. "Hospitals tend to concentrate on patients inside the building and not accept responsibility for the wellness of the entire community...