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...Consulting firm McKinsey & Co estimates that the levy could raise as much as $1 billion a year, although Douste-Blazy cautions that it will take several years to reach that goal. He promises that administrative expenses will remain extremely light, especially by U.N. standards - less than 5% of the money raised...
...would advise an insurance company to deny a broad liability insurance if it doesn't fire a CEO for lying," says Nell Minow, a co-founder of corporate-governance-research firm the Corporate Library. "If a CEO is lying, then...
...socialized medicine. In a nod to the concerns of his GOP colleagues and some moderate Democrats, Baucus introduced an alternative to the public plan: nonprofit state or regional cooperatives that, except for some seed money from Washington, would be exclusively financed by members' premiums. The hazy concept of co-ops has been pushed by North Dakota Democrat Kent Conrad, who was part of the bipartisan so-called Gang of Six that worked to draft the Baucus bill, but many health-policy experts view it as a poor substitute for a public plan; in fact, the Congressional Budget Office...
...Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat and longtime champion of the public plan, said he intends to introduce an amendment to insert the federal alternative into the bill, though there was no word if Baucus would accept such an amendment. "The proposed co-op model is untested and unsubstantiated and should not be considered as a national model for health insurance," Rockefeller said. If Dems choose to go it alone without any Republican support, it's possible they could include such a plan in the final version of the bill. But many moderate Democrats, such as Landrieu and Nebraska...
...That doesn't mean they're going to rule the day," says Mesquita. "But it does mean we will see a substantial uptick in action by students and dissidents and increasing efforts by Khamenei and others perceived as hard-liners to find some pragmatic ways to accommodate or co-opt them...