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...other day, a friend who is considering moving to a cheaper apartment in a worse neighborhood to save money said she finally understands the sacrifices our parents made. That made me think about how there's a difference between giving something up (I haven't had cable TV in more than a year, but really, what am I missing?) and sacrifice. For the first time that I've noticed, my generation is becoming familiar with that second concept...
Lilly makes a simple pitch for the women's pitch. "It's not going to make or break you, and it's probably cheaper than going to have coffee with someone," she says. "Be a critic after you've come see a game, don't make a judgment beforehand. If you attend a game, you'll see people working their asses off." No doubt these classy pros will take their shots. But is hard work enough to score big in the face of a brutal downturn...
With more viewers drifting to cable and going online, the formerly mass networks are losing money and cultural clout. Next fall NBC will give Jay Leno five hours of prime time a week because he's cheaper than producing Medium. Programmers and cultural critics are warning of the end of the mass-media era, when shows from I Love Lucy to Seinfeld joined tens of millions of Americans in a common experience...
...then, does everyone from the President on down seem to believe computerized medicine will help contain costs rather than inflate them? One argument is that having all that information available should make for better medicine and better medicine will be cheaper in the long run. But more information can also lead to less medicine. EMR can greatly increase insurance-company denials of the treatments doctors want. Might this eliminate unnecessary testing? Sure. But who determines what is necessary? When a white-blood-cell count isn't high enough to "justify" hospitalization for IV antibiotics, the physician whose judgment says "this...
...long-established practice for medical providers such as hospitals and physicians to charge uninsured patients higher prices than patients with health coverage for the same care. (Insurers can negotiate cheaper prices through contracts and because of volume.) What the new study suggests, though, is that providers often pass along the cost of treating the uninsured to their insured patients. Its analysis found that families pay, on average, as much as $1,100 extra and individuals $410 extra in health-care premiums each year in order to cover the cost of treatment to uninsured patients who cannot afford to pay their...