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...happens), there is little or no correlation between doing bad stuff and getting sued. We also observe that none of the countries whose medical systems are held up to us as better than ours has any malpractice system at all. And the cost of defensive medicine is enormous - much higher than published estimates...
Obama may also have been helped by a higher tolerance for calamity. After a winter of market mayhem, job losses and pirate attacks, our panic reflex may have toughened up a bit. We are always on alert now: the threat level is forever orange; the Internet fizzes with warnings and advice. This time, thousands of students stayed home from school in Texas, disrupting a day of standardized state tests, while in New York City, pharmacies reported a run on Tamiflu...
...fast-food-franchise concepts have flamed out since then. "Keep it real simple," Harry Snyder, a co-founder with his wife Esther of In-N-Out, would often say. "Do one thing, and do it the best you can." The company thrived on its stellar customer service and higher-than-average wages...
...said. Ezzati attributed potential solutions to the problem just as much to policy-making as to individual actions. “Individuals don’t just randomly smoke or stop smoking. They do it because things happen around them, and those things could be higher prices, higher taxes.” Ezzati said. “There could be less access to tobacco because it is regulated...The public health system’s role is to create the trigger for individual action.” Though Ezzati emphasized the need for changes at the macro level?...
...country already tapped for greater and greater growth. Gujarat has been enjoying growth rates of 10% or more (compared with India's range of 8% to 9%), with some of the largest businesses in the country operating in its territory, providing the average Gujarati a mean income significantly higher than the national average. A tough administrator, Modi is, from all appearances, incorruptible; he lives modestly, even ascetically, choosing to be celibate to devote his energies and time to his political causes...