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Detroit needs a Marshall Plan. A directive should be given to a group of architects and environmentalists to resurrect the city. Detroit's recovery would also provide a model for other American cities. Charlotte Fauth, INDIAN WELLS, CALIF...
...Steele decided to fix this, switching Geisinger over to a prix fixe, episode-care model for surgery, starting with the heart bypass. Under the new system, a closely coordinated team of caregivers would be responsible for every stage of a bypass patient's treatment and recovery. The hospital would submit a single bill for all work and include a 90-day warranty. If a patient checked back in with a complication like a postsurgical infection, that work would be on Geisinger's dime. "We'll do it right, or we won't send a bill" was how Steele...
...AHIP report was the kind of one-sided study that lobbyists sometimes commission to create scary sound bites. It worked. The report analyzed the impact of four narrow features of the Senate Finance bill using a worst-case-scenario model; it concluded, as Ignagni says, that "health care costs [would] increase far faster and higher than they would under the current system." A fairer reading of the bill, which cleared the Finance Committee on Oct. 13 with a 14-9 vote, with one Republican supporter, suggests these projected costs are wildly exaggerated. Other provisions of the bill are aimed...
...resident to have health insurance, provides free or subsidized coverage for some low-income individuals, and is the first of its kind to be enacted in the country. National policymakers have closely analyzed the act, which was signed into law by former Republican Gov. Mitt Romney, as a potential model for national health care reform...
During breaks, he jots notes on index cards and confers with his advisers: Josh Weiss, a baby-faced 25-year-old producer, and Dan Colla, a burly, affable childhood friend who is a dead ringer for the male model Fabio. After a sympathetic caller declares that the governor's staunchest political foes - including Illinois house speaker Mike Madigan, Governor Pat Quinn and state senate president John Cullerton - deserve to be pelted with rotten fruit, Blagojevich urges would-be assailants to aim for the head. Within a few mind-bending minutes, he slams Quinn's tax policies, speculates about the percentage...