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...gradual reduction in the payments that hospitals receive for treating high numbers of low-income and uninsured people. The Administration says that as more people get good health-insurance coverage, hospitals will need less of these hardship payments. This makes sense in theory, even to the AHA, but any candid hospital executive will readily admit that facilities use such payments to make up for financial shortfalls in lots of places, most notably EDs. Says Umbdenstock: "Without these extra payments, it would be hard to maintain services that are important but don't turn a profit." (Watch a video on uninsured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Health-Care Reform in the ER | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

...Mousavi has a reputation for being soft-spoken, but that is an exaggeration. He is whisper-spoken. His answers to our questions were cautious, precise, although surprisingly candid at times. He was most emphatic when we asked about the way Mahmoud Ahmadinejad conducted his campaign, which included a direct attack on Mousavi's wife, the famous artist and activist Zahra Rahnavard. "I think he went beyond our societal norms, and that is why he created a current against himself," Mousavi said. "In our country, they don't insult a man's wife [to] his face. It is also not expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Could Beat Ahmadinejad: Mousavi Talks to TIME | 6/12/2009 | See Source »

...also criticized, as he did during the campaign, Ahmadinejad's incendiary rhetoric on international issues like Israel and the Holocaust: "In our foreign policy we have confused fundamental issues ... that are in our national interest with sensationalism that is more of domestic use." Mousavi was unexpectedly candid about his willingness to negotiate the nature of Iran's nuclear program. He said there were two issues: peaceful nuclear uses, which was Iran's right under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and possible weaponization. "Personally, I view this second part, which is both technical and political, as negotiable," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Could Beat Ahmadinejad: Mousavi Talks to TIME | 6/12/2009 | See Source »

...most respected voice in National Security Council debates. The President is said to love his unadorned manner. Much of which is attributable to the fact that, in the self-proclaimed twilight of his public career, Gates has emerged as that most exotic of Washington species - the bureaucrat unbound, candid and fearless. He tells members of Congress what he really thinks about their pet programs. He upends Pentagon priorities, demotes the military-industrial hardware pipeline and promotes the immediate needs of the troops on the front line. He fires high-ranking subordinates without muss or controversy - an Air Force secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Gates: The Bureaucrat Unbound | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

...appreciated the opportunity to hear from many of you at these open forums and in subsequent emails I've received. I wanted to thank you for your candid comments and to let you know that I have taken the feedback you provided - and continue to provide - seriously...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Dean of Bad Timing | 5/19/2009 | See Source »

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