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...coordinate care for their shared Medicare patients. All would be held accountable for the results and share in any cost savings. The second is the concept of "bundling" payments. Under that system, hospitals, doctors and other providers would get paid a set fee for a single episode of care - say, bypass surgery - and everyone would have to divide it up. The third is giving patients a "medical home" - another way of ensuring greater coordination among health care providers...
...these shortcomings be reversed? White House officials and health reform advocates say they are trying. "We're not done yet," says DeParle. The question is whether the final weeks of horse-trading will move the bills toward transforming the health care system - or simply making it bigger...
While it's difficult to argue with the larger philosophical goal -let's fix the U.S.'s dropout factories - some critics say the evidence of success in turnaround strategies just isn't there. Worse, it isn't even that clear what makes a turnaround a turnaround. "There's no agreement on how bad a school has to be in order to qualify," says Andy Smarick, a former deputy assistant education secretary who is a visiting fellow at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education-reform think tank. "There's no agreement on how long it has to sustain that level...
Private schools were told to raise their walls, install barbed wire, sandbags and closed-circuit TV cameras and hire armed guards. Some even went so far as to put snipers on their roofs. Schools like Ali's can afford such measures, she says. But government schools are out of luck. The federal government is doing little, critics say, to help pay for the extra security measures it says are necessary for schools to remain open...
...situation's impact on the kids has been noticeable. "We've heard people say, 'My daughter didn't want to go to school today. She had a bad dream - she thinks something bad is going to happen today,' " says Huma Ali in Karachi. "Kids ... as old as my younger daughter, who is 5½, now when they hear the word danger, they've been taught to drop everything, drop down into their knees and go into a duck position," says Sanam Thariani, who works with Ali. "I just think that's really sad that a 5-year...