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...It’s now more and more possible to join a niche community that’s built around common taste in some esoteric form of cultural consumption,” Kaufman says. As the volume and variety of multimedia content available on any computer across the globe increases every day, artists within these enclaves gain the ability to distribute their work to anyone with a keyboard. “Rock bands are just as likely to emerge through self-promotion via MySpace or YouTube as they are through major record companies,” Kaufman says...
Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital receive above average insurance payments in comparison to other area hospitals—without showing better outcomes for patients, according to a Boston Globe report earlier this week...
...same service delivered the same way with the same outcome can vary in cost from one provider to the next by as much as 300 percent,” Baker said in a statement to the Globe. “There is no other sector of the economy anywhere in this country in which that kind of price variability with no appreciable difference in service or product quality can sustain itself...
...which both rank in the top 10 on US News and World Report’s honor roll of hospitals—have been under the management of Partners HealthCare. After bringing together two such prestigious hospitals, Partners became tremendously powerful in swaying insurers, according to the Globe...
With favorable insurance contracts, Partners has earned more than $1.7 billion in profits since 2004. However, 24 smaller hospitals in Massachusetts continue to lose money annually. According to the Globe, these hospitals could reverse such deficits if compensated at the same rates as Partners...