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...Some of this is transparent posturing, but there are legitimate concerns about politicians' deciding when treatments are effective enough - or, more controversially, cost-effective enough - to be reimbursable. Medical knowledge is constantly evolving, and treatments that seem to lack solid evidence today might seem indispensable tomorrow. Wasteful tests and procedures don't come with labels marked "wasteful," and most patients and providers genuinely believe the care they're getting and giving is necessary. Comprehensive studies of what works can be slow, expensive and inconclusive. Even Orszag admits the savings from cutting out unneeded care would take a decade to materialize...
...Despite lack of parrots and eye patches, SWEDEN'S PIRATE PARTY wins an E.U. Parliament seat...
...Though the resulting blacklisting has withstood legal challenge in the U.S. and Canada, a European court this year struck down the MEK's terrorist listing in the E.U. The new ruling was based on an earlier British court decision that ordered the terrorist designation be lifted because of a lack of evidence that the MEK had been involved in terrorist activity since it renounced violence in 2001. (In Iraq, the U.S. Army disarmed MEK's Ashraf compound in the country's east in 2003, calling it a security threat. The Iraqi government has indicated it will close the camp completely...
...locked in a heated standoff with the West over both its nuclear-weapons program and its jailing of two U.S. reporters. But even amid those tensions, the Hermit Kingdom is trying to stimulate its dire economic fortunes by slowly opening its economy to foreign business - and the lack of convenient cell-phone service has emerged as a major irritant, especially for the hundreds of Chinese firms active there, which make up the largest group of foreign investors. Those investors now actually have an ally in Kim Jong Il, who has quietly reversed his earlier decision and started upgrading the country...
...Pahlavi criticized the Tehran regime for hiding its dirty work and said the regime is little changed today from its inception years ago. "So many of victims' bodies are dragged to places that even their own families can't uncover," he says. "Nothing has changed ... [there is] lack of transparency, lack of responsibility...