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...Read "How to Prevent the Next Darfur...
...question now is whether the government of Sudan - and the many fractious rebel groups - will make the right moves and end the humanitarian catastrophe in Darfur and prevent renewed fighting between north and south. (See a TIME video on Sudan...
...that dictates Medicare payments. At the time, the so-called sustainability growth rate (SGR) was depegged from inflation to wage growth. That was fine with doctors until the recession hit and wage growth ground to an abrupt halt, posing the threat of real cuts to their Medicare reimbursements. To prevent that from happening to a constituency no politician likes to alienate - or, worse, having doctors cut services to patients - Congress in 2003 passed a one-year spending patch to fix the problem; six fixes later, that "temporary" solution has become an annual, bipartisan affair that hasn't solved the fundamental...
...support from physicians on the Administration's most important domestic policy initiative," says Henry Aaron, a senior fellow for health policy at the Brookings Institution. "This seems to me to be a good deal for both sides. The question now is whether Congress will go along." See how to prevent illness...