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...also lead to less medicine. EMR can greatly increase insurance-company denials of the treatments doctors want. Might this eliminate unnecessary testing? Sure. But who determines what is necessary? When a white-blood-cell count isn't high enough to "justify" hospitalization for IV antibiotics, the physician whose judgment says "this patient is sick and belongs in the hospital" is told his services, as well as the hospitalization, will not be paid for. So he has two choices: wait for the patient to get sick enough to justify his treatment plan or join the game - and lie about how sick...
...Belorussiya, or Soviet Belarus, had published an article mocking her and her complaint. "The state drove her to suicide," says Valery Shchukin, a member of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee for human rights who worked with Palyakova. "The police wouldn't leave her alone - ringing her late at night. The judgment was the end of the world for her. She was very frightened...
...some finance experts think that by focusing the discussion on who pays for ratings, a much larger issue is missed entirely. Since the 1930s, regulators themselves have relied on the judgment of private ratings agencies - thus giving the companies exalted status and immunizing them from competition that might otherwise keep them honest. It started with bank regulators in 1936, and over the years different parts of the government, overseeing everything from insurance companies to money market mutual funds, have turned to the ratings agencies for guidance. (Vote for the 2009 TIME 100 Finalists...
...Kagan as a result. “I think we have to pay a little more attention, and I’ve gone to some length to try to find out more about Dean Kagan. But in the absence of being able to do so and really have a judgment on her qualifications, I’m constrained to vote no,” Specter said during the debate. Kagan received additional criticism over her opposition to the Solomon Amendment, a measure allowing military recruiters on college campuses, and lack of appelate court experience. But it was Kagan?...
...Museum in 1903, stipulated that the Museum must remain in the condition it was in at the time of her death, and if any changes were made the entire collection would be given to Harvard. But last week, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts filed a Memorandum and Judgment ruling that the proposed renovation and expansion of the Museum abides by Gardener’s desire to create a “Museum for the education and enjoyment of the public forever.” “The entirety of our museum is an artwork, so we have...