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...health-care reform, if it's done comprehensively, can harness the financial value of EDs: "We're the last stop before the hospital bed - the last opportunity to connect people back to a primary-care provider," where regular monitoring costs less than an expensive hospital stay for a more serious condition. "I can spend tens of thousands of dollars on an ICU bed [for a stroke patient], and nobody questions it, but if I try to get them an office visit and routine blood-pressure medication, it's a much bigger challenge." (See pictures...
...this has a touch of Italian hyperbole, but the point is a serious one as Marchionne, 57, tackles his next big challenge: Chrysler. For at Chrysler, he's moving, just as he did at Fiat, to restructure the organization, overhaul production, revamp the lineup, motivate a beaten-down workforce and deal with prickly shareholders - this time including the U.S. Government...
...think we are dealing with a very serious problem here. With what we know and what we already knew, to me, the honorable thing to do would be to resign." - Calling on President Clinton to resign during the Monica Lewinsky scandal (AP, Sept...
...People have survived extramarital affairs, but he's got a hypocrisy problem to deal with. He's got a serious hypocrisy problem." - Unnamed Nevada Republican operative (Las Vegas Sun, June...
...Politicians will not be able to ignore a level of turnout that low," he says. Lund says the voto en blanco supporters could then go on to form a new political opposition along with disaffected members of the main parties. "This movement is a response to a lack of serious options," he says. "But in a country like Mexico, with all its problems, you cannot go on [like this]. People need to see real alternatives to the politicians in power...