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In this country, we have not really come to terms with the ethical issues concerning hail-Mary health care.
Health Care Beliefs and "Sicko", Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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My guess is that insurance pays for [hail-Mary, desperation medicine] sometimes, and Medicare does so fairly often.
Health Care Beliefs and "Sicko", Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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By the same token many people (myself included) use "Oh-KAY!" as a way of expressing wild excitement over, say, a hail-Mary touchdown pass with no time left on the clock or a walk-off grand slam homer in the bottom of the ninth.
Linguistically, America is A-OK Jonathan Yardley 2010
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I have no idea whether Medicare does more or less "hail-Mary" medicine that private insurance.
Health Care Beliefs and "Sicko", Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In these sorts of cases, my guess is that other countries do not use as much hail-Mary medicine.
Health Care Beliefs and "Sicko", Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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This reinforced the gut feeling that I had during that segment of the movie, which is that the guy's cancer was so far gone that none of the standard treatments was going to work, and the bone marrow idea was a desperate, last-ditch "hail-Mary pass" that had no proven track record of success.
Health Care Beliefs and "Sicko", Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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By the same token many people (myself included) use "Oh-KAY!" as a way of expressing wild excitement over, say, a hail-Mary touchdown pass with no time left on the clock or a walk-off grand slam homer in the bottom of the ninth.
Linguistically, America is A-OK Jonathan Yardley 2010
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But certainly there are cases where American doctors try hail-Mary, desperation medicine.
Health Care Beliefs and "Sicko", Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In these sorts of cases, my guess is that other countries do not use as much hail-Mary medicine.
Health Care Beliefs and "Sicko", Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The critic Jerry Saltz called it a "game-changer and a hail-Mary pass."
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