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Capitation
I hate to insert a serious (or at least non-risible) note into this entertaining exchange, but I can tell you that capitation is a word used in the medical insurance (and by extension, medical, since they are now firmly joined at the hip) field. It derives from capita as in per capita and denotes a count of patients, or subjects of a study or statistical group. Capitation is almost everything in the managed care field, as it determines funding from govt. and other agencies, reimbursements from insurers, charges by medical service providers, etc. (This courtesy of my wife who works in that field, specifically in the arcane field known as UR/QA - Utilization Review / Quality Assurance)
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