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...daily 80 mg dose of baclofen were able to reduce their smoking from 20.5 cigarettes a day to eight, a significant improvement over the placebo group, which was able to cut down to 12. And there was a distinct point at which the effect appeared to turn on - just like the switch discussed by alcoholics...
...pull from abroad highlights Indian culture, still rooted in humility and family, as seemingly incompatible with the supply of rising incomes. Tastes turn to the West, visible even in the hallmark of Indian entertainment—Bollywood—as more expensive movies are filmed in foreign locations and now often feature Hindi subtitles with spoken English. (A Bollywood remake of The Hangover is due next year.) Admittedly, it would be misleading to overstate these generalizations—yet they are overtly glaring to an Indian-American...
...with unwritten stories of slumdog millionaires that outnumber America’s four-to-one. Why say that India lags a decade behind the U.S., when its course should be its own? History has already written the American path toward economic and cultural modernization. Now, let India have its turn...
...want to suggest that cost is more important than coverage. My point has been that those two things go hand in hand. If we can't control costs, then we simply can't afford to expand coverage the way we need to. In turn, if we can expand coverage, that actually gives us some leverage with insurers or pharmaceutical industry or others to do more to help make the health care system more cost-effective...
...touted potential methods, the creation of an independent board to take away from Congress the job of overseeing the rates of Medicare payments, took a hit late last week when the CBO estimated it would save only $2 billion over 10 years. The CBO acknowledged that the savings could turn out to be higher in the long run, but that qualifier highlighted one of the biggest problems for health-care-reform backers: the potential cost savings of overhauling the entire health-care system are unknown and impossible to predict with any accuracy. The CBO, for instance, has no real...