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...provision forbade the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate with drug companies and healthcare providers on behalf of the 43 million Americans who rely on Medicare. The current system splinters the bargaining power of America’s elderly, creating private middlemen in the form of a slew of private insurance plan providers who in turn bargain with drug companies. With less purchasing power than the whole, drug companies sell their drugs at higher prices than they would in bulk, driving up costs for the government. It is simply nonsensical that Medicare has far less ability to negotiate...
...ASPIRING CLASSICAL singer Walter Turnbull founded an after-school program for local kids--and soon forgot his operatic ambitions. Launched in a church basement, the Boys Choir of Harlem has performed for Popes and Presidents and on a slew of film sound tracks. It even spawned a music academy. Though the school closed and Turnbull drew criticism following a student's 2001 allegation of sexual abuse by a teacher, the choir continues to educate kids ages 9 to 19. "It's nothing grandiose or big," Turnbull said. "We just try to get kids to understand the importance of simple things...
...slew of Harvard athletes received postseason recognition from the Ivy League yesterday, as members of the wome’s hockey, women’s basketball, and men’s basketball teams all captured awards...
...case of the dismembered torso was shocking, even for the Detroit area, which has seen a recent slew of awful urban crimes. Or was the case of Tara Grant gripping because it took place in the city's richer, whiter suburbs...
...lifting all boats in the sea.” The way the authors tell it, hundreds of companies have opened up forums and problems to the global community through the “innovative” idea of “sharing,” receiving a variegated slew of expert and not-so-expert opinions from the world over. Corporations from Boeing to Proctor & Gamble have gotten ahead by using mass collaborative efforts, and “Wikinomics” is not hesistant at all about sharing many, many, many examples of such success.Did I mention that there...