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...Quad Library. Additionally, to save money, Lamont Library will be limiting service to first-year students and to students living in the River Houses. Quad residents are encouraged to make use of the University’s many other libraries, before they are slowly phased out. An additional cost-cutting measure has forced us to convert Widener Library into a student center for graduate students...
...undergraduates, and we are all making sacrifices. For example, at a recent faculty meeting, the champagne was arguably subpar. As a symbol of our shared sacrifice, the statue of John Harvard will be meticulously chiseled down to a smaller size in proportion to the budget cut, at a cost of $2.6 million. Since improvements like this, and the amenities of Harvard life, do not come cheaply, we ask for your kind, tax-deductible donation...
...Obama political team has concluded that cost inflation is mostly a Beltway issue, that August recess requires reform to be marketed in more personal terms: What does it mean for you? It would be nice if Obama stopped limiting his answer to that question to consumer protections against rapacious insurers. It could be: Your premiums won't double every decade, your economy won't sink and your government won't go broke. Then again, David Axelrod probably deserves the benefit of the doubt when it comes to selling reform...
...reform won't be worth selling if it doesn't include real cost restraints, and the early versions floating around Capitol Hill have been a bit disappointing. Obama has promised that reform will shift medical incentives from quantity to quality, from paying for volume to paying for outcomes. But except for a couple of demonstration projects designed to investigate why care costs so much more in some parts of the country, that hasn't been the focus of congressional legislation. "We've got to get the incentives aligned, or else we'll keep punishing excellent care, and we'll keep...
...thing not to emphasize cost-cutting because you think it's a political loser. But it's another thing not to do cost-cutting because you think it's a political loser. If reform simply expands a system of unaffordable care, then the town-hall crazies will have a legitimate point. Then Obamacare really will make the crisis worse...