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...heart-failure patient comes in with coronary-artery disease and acid-reflux disease. According to a Prometheus algorithm, this patient should cost $20,750 a year to treat - including office visits, medications, blood-pressure monitoring and an allowance for complications. The incentive for the heart patient's doctor to spend less than $20,750 is that he gets to keep a portion of the difference (assuming that the patient was managed properly and happy with the outcome). And the best way to keep costs low is to offer the best care: If the doctor is negligent in monitoring the patient...
...Twittering from Wasilla is like shouting from the top of Mount McKinley for all that it's heard in the lower 48. The only news that does break through nationally are tabloid items like her fights with Levi Johnston and David Letterman. "I buy that you want to spend more time with your family, the stress and demands of five children and a husband. I can buy that you want to push your conservative agenda. I would buy that she thought that she could do more on a national scale because of her popularity and because of her Hollywood stature...
...Show Me the Money Between her husband's income and her own salary, Sarah Palin is by no means poor. But the Palins have had to spend more than $500,000 to deal with the 15 ethics complaints filed against Palin by various outside groups in the past eight months. Palin has been exonerated in all cases, but Alaskan law states that she has to use her own money to defend herself. More cases were expected, which could've become expensive with four kids (and a grandchild) still living at home...
...told me that for $275, a woman would come to our house, cook Cassandra's placenta, freeze-dry it and turn it into capsules to help ward off postpartum depression and increase milk supply, I said, "$275 is a bargain compared with the $20,000 I'll have to spend to tear out our kitchen immediately afterward...
...Kate Plus 8 •total overness of, like anyone is going to spend a nanosecond thinking about these hideous nobodies now that Michael Jackson's dead...