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...Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In rural states and Oaxaca and Veracruz, where Mexico's first swine-flu cases (and first death) are believed to have emerged in late March and early April, access to physicians and nurses is even more threadbare. The nation's public health budget is about 3% of GDP, again about half the OECD average; and its per capita health spending of $675 is a quarter of that average. Mexicans regularly complain about (and often try to avoid) overcrowded and understaffed public clinics and hospitals, where patients sometimes have to bring their own medicines...
...will be very, very good at the helm, particularly with dealing with difficult problems in a difficult period,” said economics professor Claudia Goldin. As chair, Campbell will inherit a challenge that his predecessor Stock has been wrestling with for much of the year–decreasing budgets while managing a department with one of the lowest student to faculty ratios at Harvard. With the Faculty of Arts and Sciences facing down a $220 million budget deficit over the next two years, economic strain has already caused the department to cancel its junior seminars for next year...
...it’s not even that the fault is at the top. I think people like [Associate Dean for IT and FAS IT Chief Information Officer] Larry Levine would say that they would prefer not to outsource the mail, but the realities of the budget being what they are, it is the most efficient way to provide services that students are actually likely to use.”In an e-mail, Levine wrote that the decision to outsource e-mail was not based on cost. Rather, the choice of an outside provider was made in order...
...daunting is the prospect of passing a bill that fits the confines of a pay-as-you-go budget that a coalition of 30 organizations pushing for health-care reform - including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, organized labor, the drug lobby, AARP and organizations representing hospitals, doctors and patients - wrote a letter in March asking lawmakers to suspend the rule with respect to health-care reform. But officials at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue say that would be political suicide at a time of record deficits - and a guarantee that Republicans and fiscally conservative Democrats would not support the plan...
...easy to see the appeal, if you look at the numbers. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that fully counting employer-provided health benefits as taxable income could bring as much as $246 billion a year into federal coffers. But the politics of taxing something that workers now believe they get for free would be treacherous. More likely than a total elimination of the favorable tax treatment is the prospect of putting some kind of limit on that deduction - forcing workers to pay taxes, for instance, if their employer offers a particularly lavish plan. Or lawmakers may come...