His business model is mixed: 60 to 70 percent of it is fee-based, he estimated, and the rest comes from commissions for selling products.
But overwhelmingly, I've concluded in a decade of studying America's elderly, it is fee-for-service doctors and Big Pharma who stand to gain the most, and adult children, with too much emotion and too little information, driving those decisions.
But for the past decade it is fees that have been the fastest-growing source of income for the main airlines, having increased by twelve hundred per cent since 2007.
"If a patient only comes for a prescription, which is common because it is fee-for-service, then it is sometimes difficult to say, 'I am not going to prescribe [that drug]'.
He then asked whether it was "fee simple" -- or absolute -- control over code.
"It's fee, fee, fee — a litany of fees," said Mr. White, who owns a retail business in Florida called Sarasota Architectural Salvage that specializes in period furnishings for restorations.
Do you think the card's benefits are worth it's fees?
Melancholically, I scanned through a site I rarely go to because it's fee-free and full of legover merchants.
I don't know if my white friends were more repulsed by the fact it was fee-paying than it being what they called "culturally monolithic".
"If it's fee-sharing, and if it doesn't fall into those categories, it sounds wrong," said Michael S. Frisch, adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University.
Critics of traditional Medicare – even those who should know better – often accuse it of being "fee for service".
