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...assistant, Lloyd, for treating him the way you do, once the cameras stop rolling? -Sunni Sivadel, Washington I used to say I'm sorry to Rex Lee, who plays Lloyd, and he would be like, "Oh, God, who cares?" I do these awful things to him between "action" and "cut," and he just takes it like a champ. I will say that it does all completely pay off this season. I can't tell you more because I'd probably get into a lot of trouble...
...your book, you offer a way to cut back on lies. What's the "AHA!" remedy? AHA! stands for active honesty assessment. We need to be aware of the possibility that people are lying to us, and we need to demand honesty in other people. Otherwise we will get a canned affirmation. At the same time, we have to demand honesty of ourselves. We have to be the kind of people who don't tell white lies. We don't have to be cruel and totally blunt, but we have to convey information honestly. The paradox here is that...
...more than any other country, and we're getting results that are no better and sometimes worse. And the good news, for reformers at least, is that numerous studies have shown that the system is riddled with wasteful and unnecessary treatment, which means there's plenty of fat to cut; Orszag has suggested that costs could be reduced by as much as 30% without any reduction in the quality of care...
...these days, Obama isn't saying much about cost-cutting. This is partly because most of his curve-bending ideas - computerized records to bring medicine into the 21st century, comparative effectiveness studies to 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...
Politics, of course, is the main reason Obama is trying to sound more like Santa and less like the Grinch. Cutting costs ultimately means cutting payments to drugmakers, hospitals, doctors, insurers and other influential health lobbies, so it's understandable that he hasn't dwelled on it. Providers like the Mayo Clinic have demonstrated the promise of high-quality, low-cost care, and mounds of research as well as books like Shannon Brownlee's Overtreated have documented Orszag's less-would-be-better thesis. But to laymen it can still sound like typically empty government promises to weed out waste...