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...give doctors a better reason to prescribe electronically, in 2003 the government allowed doctors to be paid a bonus of 2% of their Medicare reimbursement, or up to $5,000 a year, beginning in 2009 if they wrote electronic prescriptions. These incentives will start to phase out in 2011, however, and in 2012, the system will introduce de-incentives: any physician not using e-prescriptions will be penalized by 1% of his Medicare reimbursement...
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...California became one of the first states in the nation to legalize medical marijuana. Currently, $200 million in medical-marijuana sales are subject to sales tax. If passed, the Marijuana Control, Regulation and Education Act (AB 390) would give California control of pot in a manner similar to that of alcohol while prohibiting its purchase by citizens under age 21. (The bill has been referred to the California state assembly's public-safety and health committees; Ammiano says it could take up to a year before it comes to a vote for passage.) State revenues would be derived from...
...OZAWA: When you take a look at the overall economy as far as Japan is concerned, personal spending accounts for more than 60% of GDP; in the case of the United States it is more than 70%. So that means to sustain personal consumption we have to give assurance to the people that they will be able to have a stable income and that their future is assured. Therefore, real income has to be raised, and we have to give a sense of security to the population through reforms to the pension system. I'm very concerned about the younger...
...ruled by sheer force. In the past Afghanistan was a self-sustaining country in terms of food supply, but now the self-sufficiency rate has plunged to a level of 40%. They are living in a kind of sheer poverty, and what is most needed is to give a stable life to the majority of people living in Afghanistan. That means that guns should be replaced with ploughshares. By doing so, those people will be able to rebuild their lives. And in this situation, al-Qaeda and the Taliban will naturally not be able to thrive...