Word: leveler
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...matter what your weight is now, focus on maintaining your weight at every level,” said Soheyla D. Gharib, chief of medicine at University Heath Services. “When you’re overweight at age 18, it seems like there aren’t going to be more changes [to your weight]—I think people are not aware of that. There’s a market out there about joining weight loss programs and taking pills, and while those may be quick fixes, in general, it’s hard to go back...
...long way toward funding health-care reform. This idea gains even more traction when you consider that, if subjected to the FDA approval process right now, back surgeries and any number of prescription or over-the-counter drugs would be summarily dismissed as failing to outperform the placebo level...
...able to get flood insurance," says Jeff Woodward, the region's insurance-program specialist for FEMA. How much people have to pay for flood insurance - premiums vary from about $250 to $1,900 a year, Woodward says - depends on where they live in the floodplain and what risk level that area has, as determined by a complicated federal flood...
...state's governor, Jennifer M. Granholm. Talking recently with TIME in the parlor of her second-floor office in the state's capitol building, Granholm said that preventing a government shutdown before midnight Wednesday, the end of the state's fiscal year, "is going to require a level of cuts that people have not had before...
...original version of the House bill contained a public option that would have set its reimbursement rates above, but still tied to, Medicare rates. But an amendment that passed in the House Energy Committee would have a public option with negotiated rates, roughly equivalent to Schumer's supposedly "level playing field" approach. According to a Democratic leadership aide in the House, the Congressional Budget Office, which determines the cost of legislation, has told Pelosi that the Medicare-pegged rates would lead to $110 billion in savings over 10 years, while negotiated rates would save only about $25 billion. Pelosi...