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...excess capacity of health-care providers and institutions," Quick notes. And to make sure they all get a piece of the action, they've created a wasteful and ill-coordinated system of health-care redundancies, from unnecessary MRIs to inpatient treatment that too often could have been cheaper outpatient treatment. Miami-Dade, for example, has one of the nation's highest hospital readmission rates - and more MRI machines than Canada...
...through the fiction that certain costs are "fixed." The typical family spends $1,303 a year on electricity; by simply unplugging appliances when you're not using them, you can shave 5% to 10% off that bill. And when was the last time you shopped for cheaper car insurance? It's an expense that's out of sight most of the year but a significant chunk of what we spend...
Easier Awards. American Airlines is making it easier to redeem frequent flyer miles. You can now buy different types of award tickets or classes of travel on the same trip. So, for example, you can save miles on an economy-class MileSAAver ticket (more restrictive but cheaper) on the flight out, but purchase the costlier and more flexible first-class AAnytime ticket on the return. You can even book a one-way award flight without having to pay the equivalent of a round-trip ticket. Check out the new booking calendar on AA.com, which tells you how many miles...
...Commission ruling hinged on two key issues. Firstly, that Intel abused its dominant market position with hidden financial incentives that restricted or blocked the use of AMD chips - which are cheaper, but have similar specifications - in computers sold in the E.U. Intel also paid major retailers on condition they stock only computers with Intel central processing units (CPUs...
...More emphasis on prevention and wellness: Pure common sense tells you that it's much cheaper not to get sick in the first place. But there is little financial incentive for the health-care industry in that regard. Obama says he intends to change that. Here, however, some employers are taking the lead. As Obama noted after his meeting with the business executives: "When you hear what Safeway or Johnson & Johnson or any of these other companies have done, what you've seen is sustained experimentation over many years and a shift in incentive structures so that employees see concrete...