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...make hard-nosed sense in a public-health system, its use can reduce costs in other ways. Eager to gain NICE's approval, drug companies have started giving away portions of expensive treatment for free in Britain in order to ensure their drugs meet the threshold. Sir Michael Rawlins, chairman of NICE, believes that if the U.S. adopted a similar system, it would revolutionize the culture of major pharmaceutical companies, many of which spend more on marketing than research and development. A 2008 study in the New England Journal of Medicine predicted that incorporating information about cost-effectiveness into...
...apologizing for Republican mistakes of the past is now officially over. It is done.' MICHAEL STEELE, Republican National Committee chairman, during a speech to fellow GOP leaders about the party's future...
...former GOP county Chairman, I firmly agree that the Republican Party is toast, but what exactly do you expect will happen once the GOP is relegated to history's trash bin? That we'll all live in peace and harmony and sing "Kumbaya" together? Howard Hirsch, DAYTON...
...sure, the VEBA financial responsibilities are daunting. As the automakers wind down their involvement with retiree health care, both GM and Chrysler have stopped revealing details of their related costs. However, GM vice chairman Robert Lutz recently noted that GM has spent more than $103 billion on health care in the past 15 years - one big reason the company is in its current predicament. (See TIME's photo-essay "Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline...
...Bloom argued Fiat's case, Chrysler's case and ultimately the UAW's case. Gangly and soft-spoken, Rattner's co-chairman is passionately pro-union - an unusual trait among investment bankers. He helped guide the steelworkers' union through the collapse and restructuring of its industry, and this time he came to the aid of Chrysler's workforce. Gene Sperling, a veteran of the Clinton Administration, added his weight to Bloom's, speaking movingly of the human devastation that would follow should Chrysler collapse at such a weak moment for the overall economy...