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...haven’t taken [the losses] as ‘things aren’t going well,’” Eliot said. “We’ve learned from those things and have been working really hard on them during practice...
...doctors and hospitals revolt en masse against the changes? Will improved treatment really lead to a significant drop in unneeded procedures? "You need to give things a chance to change," explains Joseph Aslop, a health adviser for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). "If you put [the pressure] on too hard too fast, things are going to break." (See 10 players in health-care reform...
...Hanging over the debate are the hard facts of the U.S. government's grim fiscal prognosis. According to the CBO, federal spending on Medicare and Medicaid is projected to quintuple, from 4% of the economy in 2007 to 19% in 2082, if nothing changes. At the same time, the government is projected to run unsustainable deficits larger than the growth in the economy for the foreseeable future...
That's undoubtedly true. The SPD was squeezed not by its opponents on the right but by the hard-left party Die Linke, formed from the remnants of the former East Germany's Communist Party and SPD dissidents. And Merkel's win, though slim, secures her against critics in her party, who might have sought to topple her. Christian Bachmann, 37, a hospital doctor and Christian Democrat supporter, proclaims himself "happy with the result." He adds, "To be quite honest, I don't mind the FDP ending up so strong. This may give the CDU/CSU room for a little...