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Larry Summers, now the top economic adviser in the Obama White House, was a proponent of such taxes in the 1980s and early 1990s. There's no hint of them in the Administration's 88-page white paper on financial regulation. There is talk of higher capital requirements, tougher consumer-protection standards and new rules for derivatives. But taken as a whole, the document sketches a regulatory approach that still relies heavily on judgment and smarts. Maybe it's time for some dumbing down...
...There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white. Or a rape.' RICHARD NIXON, reacting to the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, on newly released audiotapes...
This is the guiding principle of a pilot payment model called Prometheus, which, by January 2010, will be used to calculate insurance coverage for 80,000 workers in Rockford, Ill., and has already caught the eye of the White House. Why? Because it turns the current insurance reimbursement system on its ear. See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
With or without physicians' support, the idea may be creeping forward. Last week, De Brantes was part of a group of health-payment reformers invited to the White House to explain how bundling works. Meanwhile, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently started a three-year demonstration project that will provide bundled payments to hospitals and doctors at five sites for 37 common surgical procedures. The idea is that if hospitals and doctors are paid out of the same pot, they'll coordinate services to be more efficient and cost-effective. The results could help determine how aggressively...
...some time on their sun beds. In March, the President's image appeared in another new ad campaign: this time for ice cream. On posters for Duet, a stick of vanilla ice cream with a shot of chocolate running through the middle, a cartoon Obama stands grinning outside the White House underneath the caption "The Flavor of the Week! Black in White...