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...Chick Bad” might be intended to be a shot in favor of women since it is somewhat complimentary to the fairer sex—“My chick bad / Better better than yours / Now your girl might be sick but my girl sicker / She rides that dick and she handles her liquor”—but it seems more like a celebration of Ludacris’s manhood than a tribute to women. The album includes a remix of “My Chick Bad,” which Ludacris christens...
...more tuned in to getting normal targets in my younger patients," says Dr. Daniel Einhorn, medical director of the Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute, who is a co-author on one of the NEJM studies. "Without question, now I am more conservative in my treatment of older, sicker patients, because they don't benefit, and these studies just confirm that...
According to Pollitz, insurers and insurance brokers would have a strong incentive to nudge sicker or older individuals or small groups toward the exchange, skewing the risk pool there and driving up premiums. "You just have to cherry-pick a little bit to be really profitable," says Pollitz. Both the House and Senate plans call for regulations and rules to prohibit this. But, as Jacob Hacker, a health-policy expert at Yale University, puts it, "The real concern comes down to having adequate resources for enforcement. It's one thing to have rules and another thing to make sure insurance...
Still, overhauling the current health-payment system has other pitfalls. Back in 1983, Medicare initiated a similar plan, bundling payments for hospital stays, but the program acquired the unfortunate label "quicker but sicker." Since hospitals were paid a certain amount of money for each patient no matter how long they stayed, many patients were discharged sooner than was prudent, which transferred the burden of care onto nursing homes and created a "mini-industry of readmissions," according to Gail Wilensky, a former head of Medicare. "Redesigning the reimbursement system is not for the faint of heart," says Wilensky. "This...
...soaring health spending is on course to bankrupt the Treasury - along with state and local governments, big and small businesses, and millions of families - so again, it would be nice to cut out the usage that doesn't make us healthier and can even make us sicker...