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...that going to happen occasionally or at least that I'm not going to be able to get what I want? I mean - Well - yes. I mean, here's what I've tried to say. Here's how I've described it, and this is the truth as I see it: There is nothing that - there is nothing that would make you healthier that health reform would prevent you from getting. What we are interested in doing is giving doctors and patients the ability to sort through what's effective and what's not, and not purchase things that...
...have - and then obviously the TARP bank bailout money - didn't happen under our watch, but we had to administer it. We then took on making sure that GM and Chrysler didn't collapse, because that would have potentially created additional fear in the marketplace at a time when the economy was most vulnerable. But that got advertised...
...about a Grand Bargain on North Korea's nukes have been set aside for the moment. Said a diplomatic source: "Everyone ... is back to trying to figure out the most basic things about [the regime]." Establishing bilateral talks "might help in that exercise," he said. But when that might happen, "no one knows," the source said. "At this point, we're probably going to have to have talks with them about the format of the talks." In other words, it'll probably take a while - assuming, that is, that the Dear Leader has a while...
...Alpern said that while Yale does not specifically target Harvard in searching for new faculty, many top quality medical researchers happen to be in Boston. Most of them, he said, are not interested in leaving Harvard unless Yale is offering an attractive position in an high-priority, visionary program...
...already cash-strapped states are voicing their opposition to this proposal; while the current bill says Washington would foot the bill for these new Medicaid enrollees, states that are having a hard enough time as it is paying their share of the program are wary of what might happen several years from now. At the same time, Blue Dogs in the House are upset at some of the proposed cuts to Medicare insurers. They worry that these cuts will lead to a dangerous decrease in Medicare services in already underserved rural areas. This was the biggest sticking point in House...