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When employees are unhealthy, the damage extends beyond their diminished contribution to the work place—felt through numerous sick days or inability to complete tasks—to a hindrance on the American healthcare system. For this reason, subsidizing programs that encourage healthful choices will ultimately benefit the U.S. A healthier labor force is both more productive and less draining on the health care system as a whole...
Pitino has said the Boston experience got the wanderlust out of his system and that Louisville is where he wants to finish his career. But the bizarre extortion case seems to lend plausibility to the notion that he might want to go to a place where his personal business isn't such a hot topic. If not Sacramento, perhaps Philadelphia, which has a brand new opening that an East Coaster like Pitino might find more appealing. "Coach is a fighter," U. of L. sports information director Kenny Klein told TIME, "and he's proven that throughout his career. We have...
...about covering the 37 million or so uninsured. In 2009, after much of the rhetoric on last year's campaign trail focused on the growing ranks of the uninsured, the major thrust of health-care reform centers on something that affects everyone: the staggering cost of a system that threatens to devour the rest of the economy. And as a result, political momentum may finally be on the side of health reform. (See "Five Truths About Health Care in America...
...Comparative-effectiveness research to evaluate what works best and what doesn't: "It is stunning how little evaluation we do in the U.S. health-care system," Orszag says. Most of what is done is testing new pharmaceuticals against a placebo, he notes. "It's not done Drug A vs. Drug B vs. some procedure, let alone procedures head to head...
...this past week by the country's Daily Telegraph newspaper, which obtained leaked details, have British voters fuming. In a poll taken by the Times of London, more than four fifths of Britons thought all the country's legislators were as bad as each other for milking their allowance system, if not illegally, then far beyond its spirit. A majority said the furor was proof of "how self-serving and out of touch most [politicians...