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...While Perry works the command center to ensure what she hopes will be a "peaceful, well-run, seamless operation," she and her colleagues will have to come up with an answer to how the cash-strapped City of Los Angeles will eventually foot the event's large public bill. The councilwoman would not hazard a guess of what the memorial would cost, but she did use last month's Laker Pride parade as a yardstick, which was estimated to run a tab of about $2 million. Other estimates listed the Jackson total price tag at $2.5 million...
When the House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act on June 26, it was a landmark moment for environmental politics. If the bill passes the Senate to become law - no sure thing, given the 60 votes needed in the upper chamber - it would establish the first national caps on carbon emissions. It would also create what would almost certainly be the world's biggest greenhouse-gas market, since companies would have the option to buy and sell carbon credits and offsets. Every smart, efficient enterprise that can rapidly bring down its emissions will be able...
Harry J. Pierre, a spokesman for the Attorney General's Office, said that O'Brien, who prepared and documented bill payments for the non-profit organization but did not have signatory power over writing checks, allegedly diverted money from the organization's banking account to his own personal account. Pierre said that the organization had used an American Express corporate credit card to pay various expenses, and that the organization's director became aware of the irregularities when American Express called and notified him that the organization's account would be closed due to missed bill payments...
HOUSE TRI-COMMITTEE This alliance of three committees released a draft bill June 19, including a public plan financed by premiums. It would initially reimburse health-care providers using Medicare's lower rates...
...major problem with American health care today is what policy experts call "perverse incentives." Doctors and hospitals bill insurers for every individual service - every office visit, MRI or hour of operating-room time - a "fee for service" model that drives health-care inflation by rewarding providers who order potentially unnecessary tests, perform potentially unnecessary surgeries and even make mistakes. A hospital readmission caused by avoidable complications just means more billable expenses...