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...Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, and back to New York one last time. Yes, Miller will board 10 flights in 60 hours, without missing a minute of work. Yes, the poor soul will jet to the Caribbean, twice, and not even leave the airport. In fact, the only time he'll be on the ground is for an overnight stay in Portland. "I totally admit that I am crazy," says Miller, 32, a freelance IT consultant who, believe it or not, has a wife who tolerates such excursions. "I'm not sure which wires got crossed in my brain...
...Buffalo, N.Y., and a friend have already booked 19 flights for the first 12 days of the promotion. They plan on taking as many trips as possible through Oct. 8 and have created a website, twelvehoursinacity.com, to document their half-day stops around North America. DiNardo says he'll quit his job if his employers don't grant him time off for the journey; so far, he and his boss are discussing a plan in which he would do some work remotely. DiNardo says he is in talks about sponsorship opportunities with several companies. For example, he has pitched...
That reason is our out-of-control, highest-in-the-world, wiggety-wiggety-wack health-care costs. They're gobbling one-sixth of our economy, and without reform they'll devour one-third of our economy by 2040; the average family's annual premiums are on track to exceed $45,000 in 2008 dollars. They're already destroying businesses small and gigantic; unaffordable health-care liabilities are one of the main reasons GM and Chrysler went bust. And since half of all health care is paid for with tax dollars, these exploding costs are a fiscal, as well...
...Republican Party and its tea-party base is going to trash Obama no matter what he does, and clearly they're not going to worry about making sense. They'll keep accusing the President of pushing big-government health plans at the same time they accuse him of squeezing Medicare, the classic big-government health plan; they'll keep blaming him for the national debt while blocking any curve-bending efforts he makes to rein in the debt. Maybe it wouldn't be such terrible politics for Obama to stake out a position as the voice of fiscal responsibility...
...volume to paying for outcomes. But except for a couple of demonstration projects designed to investigate why care costs so much more in some parts of the country, that hasn't been the focus of congressional legislation. "We've got to get the incentives aligned, or else we'll keep punishing excellent care, and we'll keep encouraging providers to do more procedures and tests and admissions and readmissions," says Jeff Korsmo, executive director of the Mayo Clinic's health-policy center. "We haven't seen a lot of progress on paying for value, and unless we get that...