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Williams, Ian | August 11, 1997 issue

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The article discusses some of the socio-political updates related to the U.S. When U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan delivered a reform package instead of slash-and-burn cuts, the Congressional grinches attacked it with their usual gracelessness. Annan's plan aims at increasing administrative efficiency but would direct the savings to development efforts. The crisis in Medicare is not its purported impending bankruptcy. One-sixth of Medicare beneficiaries-generally the healthiest and youngest-are currently enrolled in health maintenance organizations run mostly by private insurance companies. The most expensive 10 percent of Medicare beneficiaries cost the U.S. government an average of $37,000 per person per year.

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UNITED States -- Politics & government; ECONOMIC reform; MEDICAL care, Cost of; BANKRUPTCY; HEALTH maintenance organizations; UNITED States
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