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...University of California regents board voted Nov. 19 to hike education fees 32%, spurring students across the system to barricade themselves in buildings and clash with police. Cash-strapped pupils say the increase, scheduled to take effect next fall, will force many to drop out or transfer to community colleges. UC president Mark Yudof said the measure was unavoidable because of the state's ongoing budget crisis...
Currently, Greeney works at a state environmental office that focuses on the technological aspects of the environmental movement, but says that she aspires to effect change through cultural and educational reform...
...While the legislation would give the Health and Human Services Secretary more authority than she has now to put some pilot programs into effect, the Senate is already putting the brakes on some of the more innovative ideas. Under its version of the bill, three of the pilot programs that have the most potential to transform health care would require congressional approval before the Secretary could apply them to Medicare nationally. The first is known as "accountable care organizations," an arrangement in which hospitals, primary-care doctors and potentially other medical professionals would have to coordinate care for their shared...
...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. In effect, however, it "turns off the commission" before it even begins, says a senior congressional aide...
...private market. As originally envisioned, the new agency would essentially take over Congress's current authority to set Medicare payment rates for hospitals, doctors, nursing homes and other health care providers. It would use a process like the military-base-closing commission, whose recommendations automatically go into effect unless Congress votes to block them...