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...will meddle on the policy side. He has his dream job - another crack at sticking the knife into the LDP heart without the distasteful job of being accountable to the media." Gerald Curtis, a Japanese-politics expert and professor at Columbia University, says the Hatoyama Administration is a game changer in Japanese politics - and that Ozawa's objective has changed as well. The key question, he says: "Does Hatoyama as Prime Minister have the leadership ability to say, 'This is what needs to be done,' and insist it get done? At this point you don't want to underestimate Hatoyama...
...over skeptics like a latter-day Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. But after the President's impassioned, 47-minute speech drew thunderous applause and improved poll ratings, even some of the most jaded Democrats may have allowed themselves to think that maybe Obama's oratory really was a "game changer," as Senate majority leader Harry Reid...
Triumph. This word alone might suffice to describe the long-, long-awaited arrival of “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II,” by Chef Raekwon. The album—the sequel to Raekwon’s 1995 game-changer “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…”—was initially announced in 2005, but production and label issues left the work dangling in limbo, its public release put on a hitherto apparently interminable hold.But the day for Wu-heads has finally come, and Raekwon doesn?...
...identify unnecessary treatments, revamped incentives to reward quality rather than volume of care - would take more than a decade to start slashing costs, and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) doesn't score bills for their impact on the federal deficit that far in advance. Obama's most prominent game changer - an independent panel to set Medicare reimbursement policies removed from political pressures - did not fare well under the conservative CBO scoring system either. The only proposal that really impressed the CBO was the so-called public option, which would pressure private insurers to cut costs to compete with government coverage...
...provision that would take the job of setting Medicare rates out of the hands of Congress and give it to an independent agency. Presumably, that agency would have more expertise and be less susceptible to political pressure. Obama Budget Director Peter Orszag has called such a move a "game changer" that could bring down health-care costs, though no one has a precise estimate of how much could be saved...