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...Bad as that is for consumers and the national debt, it's also turned doctors into fee chasers. More and more of them invest in labs or radiology clinics so they generate revenue not just from the procedures they do themselves but also from the ones they farm out. Others buy state-of-the-art diagnostic hardware and charge state-of-the-art fees to use it. "Focus on your bottom line," urges a brochure for in-office CT-scan machines from one manufacturer. And as long as insurers pay the bills, patients don't ask what things cost...
...brand of care can take some getting used to - at least for the doctors. Come to work for Geisinger and the first thing you notice is that your days as a medical free agent are over. You are now an employee, an idea that may seem like a very bad thing - until you get used to it and realize that it can be a very good thing. (See pictures of angry health-care debates...
...recession is not a great time to buy a bank, and the FDIC is having trouble finding acquirers for troubled institutions. The FDIC could liquidate a failed bank or run it itself, as it did late last year with IndyMac. But those options tend to be even costlier. Meanwhile, "bad banks are more like fish than wine," says Bert Ely, a bank-industry consultant and an FDIC critic. "They get smellier with...
This means that the future of Georgia once again rests almost entirely on the balance between Saakashvili's good and bad impulses. The case of Irakli Alasania, Georgia's former U.N. ambassador and the country's most credible opposition figure, may provide insight into which side of the President prevails. Several weeks before he officially made the announcement, Alasania told me he was planning to run next spring for mayor of Tbilisi, with the former public defender Subari on his ticket. Allowing such well-respected statesmen to run a free campaign would instantly legitimize the idea of multiparty democracy...
...seemed like JP [Makrai] and Joe [Cloud] were having bad days, and, for whatever reason, they weren’t doing whatever they normally do,” Hughes said...