Word: dealing
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With that said, UConn will step on the court Sunday riding a great deal of momentum, as well. The Huskies have started the season 6-1 with their sole loss coming at the hands of No. 6 Duke in the finals of the NIT Season Tip-Off at Madison Square Garden...
Despite being outmatched athletically, the Crimson enters this weekend’s matchup with a great deal of confidence after jumping out to its best start since it began the 1984-85 season...
Johnstone and Coffman were awarded the grand prize of a $100 gift card at b.good. Oh, and eternal glory may be part of the deal also. But the winners were happy to share the credit with their fellow castmates. “That’s my dog India in the picture,” Johnstone said in his moving acceptance speech...
...Even more damaging in the view of many reformers is a little-noticed deal that Senate majority leader Harry Reid cut to get the support he needed to bring the bill to the floor of his chamber. The original Finance Committee bill would have triggered the commission's recommendations whenever the rate of increase in Medicare spending outpaced overall economic growth - something that happens almost every year. But the current version would allow it to make recommendations only when Medicare spending per capita grows faster than overall health costs. That almost never occurs. The change in economic measuring sounds technical...
...however, lawmakers are reluctant to cede the power to steer extra money to hospitals in their own districts, and the House rejected the commission idea outright. While the Senate bill does contain a version of the commission, it has become weaker at every turn in the process. Under a deal to win hospitals' support for the bill, the Senate Finance Committee agreed they would be exempt from the commission's recommendations at least through 2019; doctors, hospices and medical-equipment suppliers would be beyond its reach entirely. Who is left? Maybe no one. "The exception for hospitals and other providers...