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...writing to let you know that most of the Schools, allied institutions, and units in the central administration at Harvard will be carrying out a reduction in our workforce over the next seven business days...
...without incentives to use it, information alone will not lead to reform. Obama wants to make evidence-based medicine financially attractive so that providers are rewarded rather than punished for reducing readmissions and unnecessary procedures. "We can't just do research and let it sit on a shelf," Orszag says. It is fair for industry groups to insist on an independent agency to oversee the effectiveness research, so that decisions about what to study are separate from decisions about what to reimburse. And some of Obama's quality incentives are fairly straightforward, like extra dollars for primary care, prevention...
...Services Secretary Donna Shalala recalls a futile effort to reduce overpayments and promote competition among oxygen providers. "Congress stops anything that's going to gore anybody's ox," Shalala says. "If Congress is going to be involved in the nitty-gritty payment details, reform is dead." Obama wants to let another independent agency, similar to the military-base-closing commission, recommend how to pay for quality, which would limit political haggling. But even if such a panel focused on clinical effectiveness rather than cost-effectiveness - so that taxpayers would cover vastly more expensive approaches as long as they were slightly...
...crack on my ears?" Tapper assured him it was not. When Bloomberg's Hans Nichols asked the President to predict the peak of the unemployment rate, the President smiled again, as if he was dodging a bad pass. "Since you just threw back at us our last prognosis, let's not engage in another one," he said. (Read "Barack Obama's First 100 Days...
...Given his father's dubious human-rights record, Pahlavi hardly seems the right person to be trumpeting democracy for his homeland. But since Pahlavi fled the country with his father 30 years ago, he has let his claim to the throne atrophy. Over time, he's traveled and spoken widely to champion the democratic cause on behalf of Iranian citizens, saying, "It's not about...