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Some classes have already posted final grades. If your exams were earlier in the week, there's a high chance that your grades are ready. Find out at the Registrar's website by clicking on "View Course and Grade Report...
...always do it accurately," says Rockefeller, calling the insurance industry "the major evil player in the whole health care system." Whatever the actual MLR figures are, the House and Senate bill would represent the first federal regulations of this kind. "The point is to get rid of the high 60s and the low 70s and get it all up into the 80s," says Rockefeller...
...There is also a fear among health policy experts that some insurers could raise premiums in reaction - higher premiums means more money spent on health care, but also more left over for profits. Another unintentional consequence might be insurers overpaying for some health services to keep their MLR averages high. All of this means the efficacy of MLR regulation - like so much of what's contained within the House and Senate health reform bills - will hinge on implementation and oversight, subjects that have garnered almost no debate this year...
...equality in a market economy? RW: Some relatively equal societies, such as Japan, and some states such as New Hampshire have smaller differences between earnings before taxes and benefits. The other way is to start off like Sweden does - with large inequalities between earnings - and then redistribute wealth with high taxes and benefits. I think we need to do both. To reduce earning differences you need as many different forms of economic democracy as possible. We need to make it a bit more embarrassing for company directors to give themselves huge pay deals and bonuses while holding down wages elsewhere...
...India's government has been encouraging automakers to build cars in India to avoid high import levies of up to 120% and to minimize production costs. Volkswagen, for example, plans to increase sourcing parts locally from 50% currently to 80% in the next two years, according to Joerg Mueller, head of the German carmaker's India group. (Watch TIME's video "Owning a Nano, the World's Cheapest...