Word: burdenered
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...noose around his soul. The adult he reveres most in the world has given him a mission to destroy a hugely powerful wizard, yet as he gazes in a mirror, the quivering face staring back at him belies his resolve to do the deed. It's a dreadful burden on someone barely out of childhood, in his sixth year at Hogwarts. Will Draco Malfoy be able to do Voldemort's bidding and kill Albus Dumbledore? (See pictures of how the Harry Potter cast has grown up during the series...
...More people will be suffering.' DR. SEAN MACKEY, chief of pain management at the Stanford University School of Medicine, saying the agency's recommendation would burden physicians and patients and lead to higher health-care costs...
...Medicare initiated a similar plan, bundling payments for hospital stays, but the program acquired the unfortunate label "quicker but sicker." Since hospitals were paid a certain amount of money for each patient no matter how long they stayed, many patients were discharged sooner than was prudent, which transferred the burden of care onto nursing homes and created a "mini-industry of readmissions," according to Gail Wilensky, a former head of Medicare. "Redesigning the reimbursement system is not for the faint of heart," says Wilensky. "This is in large part about changing the way doctors behave...
...Given enough time - and pressure - that too may change. Veterans' groups intensively scrutinized the bill as it was being drafted and as a result won considerable concessions, including the shift of the burden of proof from the claimant to the government: now the state will have to prove radiation wasn't the cause of illness if it wants to avoid paying compensation, rather than victims having to establish the contrary before their claims are recognized. But Marhic says the proposal is still too restrictive on whom it will accept as sufficiently radiated by tests to apply for compensation...
...billions of dollars available to purchase health care and give everyone access without increasing taxes or costs to employers. Hospitals, physicians and other providers could be paid more appropriately, and the benefits package could be expanded. Such a system would also reduce providers' costs by decreasing their administrative burden. Why is a single-payer system being ignored by Congress? David Heard, M.D., SEATTLE...