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Over at General Motors, CEO Fritz Henderson on Monday outlined a tough deal for bondholders as well, as the automaker scrambled to reduce its debt. The prospects for that deal are better than Chrysler's, but they are far from guaranteed...
...Medical-Billing Industry It costs a typical doctor about 10%, right off the top, to collect fees from the HMOs and other insurance companies he or she has to deal with. This is due to the ultra-complex set of rules and regulations those companies have established to "control costs" (read: to pay us less while their executives take home more) and the billing staffs we have to hire to deal with them. This money does nothing for patients; it's a health-care expense that produces no health care. It could easily be eliminated with simple, intelligent, centralized payment...
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Fire up the Auto-Tune: Gossip Girl's BLAIR WALDORF gets inevitable record deal...
...latest addition to the Trump oeuvre is much like the Donald himself: a unique blend of hubris and charm. "When I do a deal, it's a reflection of my astuteness as a businessman," he boasts in one of his more modest asides. At their worst, Trump's platitudes sound as if they came out of fortune cookies. ("Wisdom will come provided you give it a chance to develop.") But who can argue with a guy who sent Bernard Madoff packing when the latter came around looking for money: "I had enough going on in my own businesses that...