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...debate rages in the U.S. over greater federal involvement in health care, Britain's socialized health-care system has come under scrutiny. The McKinsey report, and its fallout, highlights some of the pros and cons of such a system. On the one hand, McKinsey's analysts laid bare the scores of redundancies and inefficiencies within a bloated national health-care structure that employs some 1.5 million people in England. According to the Health Service Journal, which obtained a copy of the confidential report, McKinsey believes the NHS could afford to eliminate 137,000 clinical and administrative posts...
...would think that the recession could sack fantasy sports, the $800 million industry in which participants select real pros for their make-believe teams and potentially take home some dough if those players perform. But even in this harshest of realities, fantasy is doing just fine. There are 30 million fantasy players in the U.S. and Canada, according to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, a 54% increase from two years ago. (See real prizes you can win playing fantasy sports...
Those seeking to pay the bills through full-time journalism could find different paymasters. The Associated Press recently started taking investigative reports from four nonprofit journalism groups. And if newspapers can't afford investigations, advocacy groups and think tanks - which already hire research pros - could do their own: a kind of piecemeal return to the old partisan press...
...gathers momentum, attention is focusing on proposals for a new, government-administered health-insurance program to help lower costs. President Obama said on June 23 that the so-called public plan "makes sense" as part of an overall health-reform package; on Capitol Hill, lawmakers are sparring over its pros and cons. Democrats--who favor a public option--can't agree on a plan among themselves, while across the aisle, Republicans are warning of creeping socialism and health-care "rationing." Hold on tight: this battle is just beginning...
They've certainly made it more accessible. A lot of the other pros will Tweet about the hands they won and the hands they held when they got beat. I don't have the time or patience to do that. I get up in the mornings, and go to my computer and usually spend an hour online. That's when I go to Twitter and put some thoughts in there. I try to answer most of the sensible questions that fans send me. It's a great way to connect with them. And you know what? Sometimes I even learn...