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...think that we play our best when we communicate and work as a team, and the last couple of games we’ve been going out hard and playing as a unit,” freshman forward Jillian Dempsey said...
...Harvard women’s foil squad also made short work of Tufts, going 9-0 and finishing off its opponents in time to cheer on its teammates on the epee squad as they closed out their bouts. Senior Arielle Pensler started off the foil squad’s win streak with a victory in the opening match of the meet...
...Comparative Effectiveness After a huge behind-the-scenes fight last winter, Congress allocated $1.1 billion of the economic-stimulus measure to "comparative effectiveness" studies, which evaluate which medical treatments and tests work best. Both the House and Senate bills would set up institutes to compare the efficacy of various procedures. Proponents say the studies are essential to ending medical treatments that juice up fees without adding much benefit. But it is far from clear whether Congress would allow such studies to affect health care costs. Opponents say they are a precursor to medical rationing. Indeed, both the House and Senate...
...says both the House and Senate versions of the bill would cut the deficit in the long run. But even the CBO acknowledges that its predictions are highly uncertain and based on forecasting models that assume that most of the bill's untested reforms will actually work. To skeptics, that seems too good to be true, especially with millions of new patients coming into the system. While families' health bills may go down, they say, costs for the government - and ultimately taxpayers - are sure to rise. "I find near unanimity of opinion that, whatever its shape, the final legislation that...
...exempt from the commission's recommendations at least through 2019; doctors, hospices and medical-equipment suppliers would be beyond its reach entirely. Who is left? Maybe no one. "The exception for hospitals and other providers is fundamentally counter to the goals of the original bill, and I will work to see that it is removed," says Senator Jay Rockefeller, chairman of the Finance Committee's health care subcommittee and an original proponent of the idea. "A watered-down approach to fixing Medicare simply will not work...