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After meeting on Monday with healthcare industry professionals, President Obama met on Tuesday with business leaders to explore innovative ways to contain healthcare costs. The attendees included the CEOs of Johnson & Johnson, Safeway Stores and Pitney Bowes, and the director of benefits for Microsoft, among others...
...Companies are scrambling to contain these costs, and the business leaders in attendance Tuesday were each recognized for innovation in this area, with an emphasis on employee wellness and prevention. Microsoft, for example, has doctors make house calls as a way to cut down on emergency room visits. Johnson & Johnson reportedly saved around $15 million on its healthcare outlays in 2007 thanks to aggressive health initiatives, including putting treadmills in offices. (See Barack Obama on Health Care...
...first place. But there is little financial incentive for the health-care industry in that regard. Obama says he intends to change that. Here, however, some employers are taking the lead. As Obama noted after his meeting with the business executives: "When you hear what Safeway or Johnson & Johnson or any of these other companies have done, what you've seen is sustained experimentation over many years and a shift in incentive structures so that employees see concrete benefits as a consequence of them stopping smoking or losing weight or getting exercise." (See pictures of the Remote Area Medical Foundation...
...Johnson knew something his friends didn't: the Internet loves cats. Especially cats who are dressed in embarrassing outfits and forced to perform human activities (such as eating dinner with a fork). Suddenly, keyboard cat started popping up all over YouTube. People attached the cat to the end of already popular videos - like this and this. Someone even started a website that would attach the keyboard cat to a video of one's choosing. The musical feline had become a star, and Johnson decided to aggregate its videos on a blog. People made requests and submitted their own mash...
...coach of the 1992 U.S. Olympic Dream Team that spawned the globalization of basketball, Chuck Daly didn't call a single timeout over the tournament's eight games. When you have Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson on your squad, and are beating the awestruck Angolans, Brazilians and Puerto Ricans by an average of 43.8 points, any coach worth his whistle would have just let them play. But even if the Dream Team had been challenged, Daly, who died of pancreatic cancer on Saturday morning, at 78, might not have seen the need to lecture his team. Unlike most...