Health costs bite less from income despite rising prices
Government economists report Americans allocate a shrinking share of after tax income to health care outlays. In 1988 total health spending neared 540 billion, with private sources accounting for 312 billion including 113 billion out of pocket and 175 billion via private insurance. Federal and state governments provide 228 billion. Per person health expenditure reached 2124 dollars.
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Washington
Health Care Financing Administration
Katharine R. Levit
United States
Levit
Health Affairs
Mark Freeland
Dan Waldo
Louisiana abortion bill tightens ban amid veto clash
Louisiana lawmakers pass a measure banning most abortions with up to ten years hard labor for doctors, retaining limited exceptions for life endangerment or rape or incest. Gov. Buddy Roemer had vetoed earlier versions. the new bill aims to challenge Roe v. Wade and would become the strictest statewide abortion law if enacted.
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Baton Rouge
Buddy Roemer
Sen
John Saunders
U.S
Supreme Court
Roemer
Michigan educator startled by New Kids fans intrusion
A Michigan Education Association delegate at a National Education Association convention in Kansas City woke to seven giggling teens entering his Hyatt Palace room seeking the pop group New Kids on the Block. The teens, mistaken about the hotel, insisted on finding the band, describing their mission as urgent and humorous. The group recently performed at Sandstone Amphitheater and features the hit Step by Step.
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Kansas City
Michigan
National Education Association
Larry Chunovich
Michigan Education Association
Sandstone Amphitheater
Chunovich
Hyatt Regency Crown Center
S&L rescue deal under fire in Senate inquiry
A Senate panel probes a 1988 S&L rescue in Arizona where James M Fail put up 1000 of his own money to buy 15 Texas savings and loans with borrowed funds and promised 1.8 billion in subsidies. Fail consolidated the S&Ls into Bluebonnet Savings amid witnesses declining to appear.
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Senate
Arizona
Texas
James M. Fail
Phoenix Insurance
Fail
Howard Metzenbaum
Ohio
S&ls
Bluebonnet Savings
S&l Rescue
Metzenbaum
M. Danny Wall
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Robert J. Thompson
Bush
Thompson
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