Word: reductionism
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D.U. officials had strongly negative reactions to that proposal and fought successfully for the reduction of dues from the proposed $150 to $100.
"We're worried about this legislation," says Jay Pieper, vice president for corporate development and treasury affairs for Partners Healthcare System, the affiliation of Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's Hospitals. "It is such a focused reduction in a particular segment of health care. If you're intelligent you...
According to Pieper, Partners reduced the number of resident and fellow positions at its hospitals by five percent last spring, when it made a statement that it would continue such reduction until some balance had been achieved.
The Moynihan proposal claimed that the budget crisis was, in his words, "easily fixed." What needed fixing, he said, was the Consumer Price Index, or CPI. By simply subtracting a single percentage point from the index published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Moynihan declared, the Treasury would save...
At the very least, such a policy change would significantly reduce the number of out-of-wedlock births, a fact confirmed by a study done by Charles A. Murray '65. Murray's study showed that a 10 percent reduction in welfare benefits for unwed mothers would result in a corresponding...