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...They were soothing words, but all was not as touchy-feely as it seemed. Even as he offered himself up as a head referee more than a star player, Obama left no doubt about who was in charge. Congress and the trade groups, he said, could haggle over the terms. But they could not obstruct the project, and they would walk away at their own peril. "The status quo is the one option that's not on the table, and those who seek to block any reform at all, any reform at any costs, will not prevail this time around...
...nurses association wanted more investment in the nursing workforce. The head of the hospitals association wanted more money for hospitals. The head of the American Medical Association wanted higher Medicare reimbursement rates for doctors. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., wanted more money for community healthcare centers. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Penn., wanted a better focus on investigations of white collar fraud in the healthcare sector. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., wanted greater investment in HIV-AIDS prevention. Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del., spoke of greater National Institutes of Health Funding. It went on. (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...Chinese officials expressed "confidence" - a word that was repeated frequently during March 6 press conferences - that their program would offer significant benefits for the country's consumers and corporations. Zhang Ping, head of the National Development and Reform Commission, outlined an infrastructure-heavy program that includes $219 billion for roads, railways and other transportation, $146 billion for recovery from disasters including the Sichuan earthquake, $58 billion for improving housing for the poor, $54 billion for rural development programs, $54 billion to boosting technology and innovation at Chinese corporations and $30 billion for energy saving and anti-pollution measures. Health care...
...Ministry figures. Those who don't have the courage or the money to be treated take the pregnancy to term. Although the fertility rate has fallen considerably in Brazil (from 6.1 children in 1960 to about 2 today), 1 in 3 pregnancies is unwanted, according to Dr. Jefferson Drezett, head of the Hospital Perola Byington, Latin America's largest women's health clinic. Meanwhile, 1 in 7 Brazilian women between the ages of 15 and 19 is a mother, and the average age at which women have their first child has fallen to 21, from 22.4 in 1996, according...
...Khodorkovsky, the former head of Yukos who was convicted of fraud and tax evasion, is back in court, along with his former business partner Platon Lebedev - also serving eight years on a tax evasion conviction - to face fresh charges of embezzling $25 billion. A conviction could add another 22 years to the current eight-year sentence of which he has served five and a half years. The tycoon was convicted in 2005 of fraud and tax evasion, but prosecutors have introduced the new charges, claiming they are based on evidence brought forward by erstwhile Yukos subsidiary companies...