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...While Washington tries to figure out how to slash $2 trillion from the national millstone of health-care costs, Administration officials say almost a third of those savings could be achieved by targeting Miami and other warped medical markets like it. Miami's inordinate health-care outlay - 20% more than the national average - "is not a pretty picture," says Kate Fitch, a principal and health-care consultant for the Seattle-based Milliman Inc. consulting firm and a co-author of its Index. That's especially true since Miami-Dade County also has one of the country's lowest median incomes...
...would take their side in the struggle to give student voice more sway in College budget decisions. In an e-mail sent to the student body, Flores wrote that the budgetary decisions—to reduce shuttle service, close the Quad library, cut hot breakfast, increase section sizes, and slash House budgets—were the result of a “top-down” approach without input from those affected by them.“Broad community input would have alerted the administration to the serious issues that have been raised by many of these cuts...
...Smith reflect the top-down process by which these decisions were made. Broad community input would have alerted the administration to the serious issues that have been raised with many of these cuts. Decisions to reduce shuttle service, close the Quad library, cut hot breakfast, increase section sizes, and slash House budgets were made without real input from the communities affected by these cuts. Going forward, we are concerned that this pattern will continue as future cuts are announced over the summer and into the fall, when student input will be even more limited than during these first round...
...Sanford was once a lonely voice for fiscal restraint in Congress, one of the few Republican revolutionaries of 1994 who kept faith with the Contract with America. Back then, his bumper stickers said "Deficit" with a Ghostbusters-style slash through it, and his apocalyptic speeches chronicled how debt had destroyed great civilizations like the Byzantine Empire. I watched him give an updated version at a tea-party rally in Columbia, S.C., on April 15 as the crowd screamed about Obama's tyranny and waved signs like "Keep the Government Out of Our Health Care" and "USA 1776-2009, RIP." Sanford...
Bargain Time The battle for the shrinking pool of tourists, naturally, is good news for anyone still vacationing. To shore up the Southeast Asian market, Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam have cut visa fees and worked with airlines, hotels and tourist sites to slash prices. Caribbean operators say deep price cuts have been essential to keep the region in people's minds during the turmoil. Some Caribbean resorts have cut prices in half, while Elite Island Resorts - the second-largest independent hospitality group in the region - will even accept guests' depressed stocks as payment; the firm values stocks at their...