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...study last year by the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging uncovered other problems. The committee found that some hospitals post lists of "bad doctors," who allow hospitalized patients to exceed the DRG ceiling, and of "good doctors," who boost hospital profits by discharging their patients quickly. Physicians reported they were under pressure not to admit complicated cases that might prove costly to treat. And, at seven hospitals operated by the Paracelsus Health Care Corp. of Pasadena, Calif., doctors receive bonuses if costs are kept within DRG range. This practice is now under federal investigation...
...while Belgium, Finland and Ireland have balanced their budgets, four members--Germany, Greece, France and Italy--have allowed their budget deficits to grow beyond the 3% limit laid down in the rules of the single currency. The overall debt level of the euro countries, which is not supposed to exceed 60% of gross domestic product (GDP), is creeping up again, from 70.8% of GDP in 2003 to 71.3% in 2004 and a projected 71.7% this year...
...target for the College is thousands and obviously I hope that the college undergraduates will exceed the huge commitment that the other schools are making,” he said...
Rapier said Harvard’s capital campaign will likely be the largest ever announced in higher education, and will “definitely” exceed the University’s last run, which ended in 1999 and reaped $2.6 billion. (A similar seven-year campaign launched today would reach at least $3.8 billion, based on a higher-education inflation rate of 3 percent...
While committee members debated a range of possible new questions, they stressed the importance of keeping the evaluations brief so that response rates can reach or exceed their goal of 75 percent participation...