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...cost-cutting plans have terrified Opel's 26,000 workers in Germany. Over the past month, rumors of mass layoffs and plant closures have been swirling in the German media. Union leaders are clamoring for a quick decision on the bailout. But Chancellor Angela Merkel's government wants guarantees that any cash that it doles out will not flow back to GM's embattled operations in the U.S., or go down the drain if GM goes bust. (Read a TIME story on Germany's auto industry...
When times are tough and consumers are "trading down" to buy more inexpensive goods, you'd think that a discount retailer like Target would flourish. After all, it's the place you go for quality clothes at affordable prices - cheap-chic designer Isaac Mizrahi offers a line - low-cost home accessories and perhaps a grocery item...
...fact, doctors anywhere in the U.S. have had access to the same prescription-writing software from Allscripts for free off the Web since 2007. The cost is underwritten by many of the technology and health industry's biggest names - Cisco, Dell, Google, Microsoft, Aetna and Wellpoint. (The upside for Allscripts is potential future sales of its full medical record-keeping software to early adopters of the e-prescribing program.) But even freebies aren't enough to get doctors to change their paper-scribbling ways. Many still find old-fashioned pen and pad to be more efficient. A recent study found...
...matter how big or small, and teach its entire office staff how to keep electronic health records on the computer. "We've found that although electronic prescribing is now available, doctors are just not using it because they still have so many unanswered questions - how much does it cost, how safe is it, how is privacy protected, how much work will it entail, and what do it get from it?" says Klasko. "We're going to answer those questions...
...Finance Committee will hold a series of public roundtables followed by closed-door, member-to-member sessions on the delivery system - public or private, or some combination of the two - in which individual members can weigh in with their own plans and ideas. Other issues of coverage, including cost containment, prevention and wellness, will see similar treatment, aides say. The HELP Committee will have its own schedule on the prevention and wellness provisions as well as the parts of the bill involving the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (known as ERISA), which regulates employer-offered health-insurance plans. Rockefeller will...