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...pictures of bones and organs, and $2.2 million "high field" MRI machines that can watch the brain at work. The inflationary dynamic spawned by this expansion of health-care capacity exposes flaws in the payment system that sustains U.S. health care. Those flaws partly explain why Americans spend $2 trillion, or 16% of their GDP, for medical care, an outlay that's increasing roughly 7% annually...
Though these changes are probably a step in the right direction, they do not directly address the problem of physician self-referral--or the distorted economics that underpin the rise of specialty facilities. Next year Medicare will pay physicians more for the time they spend on their patients' well-being, but, HSC researcher Dr. Hoangmai Pham notes, it still rewards them far more generously for procedures than for cognitive services like diagnosis and management of disease. So Wichita, which 15 years ago had seven psychiatric inpatient facilities, now has one, run by Via Christi. It has six that do heart...
...very concerned, though, as we spend money beautifying Lafayette Square, what it would mean to put a public toilet as the centerpiece of that area and not a sculpture. This isn’t the same as a statue or even a bus stop. This is a public toilet,” she said...
...Crouse who once described reporters as shy egomaniacs. There was nothing shy about Apple, though, and that was his greatest strength as a journalist. He was the furthest thing from a cynic; he was an utter enthusiast, perpetually amazed and gratified that he'd been allowed to spend his life savoring the feast of public life. "By his standards," Calvin Trillin said, ?nobody worked hard enough." Todd Purdum, the master of ceremonies, noted that Apple had 73 front-page stories - in just his first year at the New York Times...
...between India's top schools and the next rank of universities is huge, she explained. For a B- or C-grade student like her son, "you still want a good, solid, branded university, but the options are limited in India," despite the fact that "every family would spend anything it can for education. We're happy to give up comfortable living if it means our children will go to a good school...