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...that seems like a no-lose formula, it's worth remembering that one of the biggest entertainment corporations in the U.S. (2008 revenues: $37.8 billion) is relying on teenagers for a major source of revenue. Even worse, on celebrity teenagers. They grow up, change their minds, get less cute, rebel, make choices their fans' parents don't approve of. (Seminaked Vanity Fair shoot, anyone?) They're on Twitter and Facebook. The opportunities for doing something irresponsible are legion...
...reimbursements by going deeper in debt, they argue the problem is more than a decade old and is not actually related to the current health-care reform debate. And indeed, the issue reaches all the way back to 1997, when President Clinton and a Republican Congress altered the complicated formula that dictates Medicare payments. At the time, the so-called sustainability growth rate (SGR) was depegged from inflation to wage growth. That was fine with doctors until the recession hit and wage growth ground to an abrupt halt, posing the threat of real cuts to their Medicare reimbursements. To prevent...
...while everyone agrees the formula is broken, no one agrees on how to fix it. The $247 billion would simply freeze doctors' wages where they are today for 10 years, giving Congress some breathing room to come up with a better formula. "The Administration is prepared to promise to do what any administration would do anyway, but that doctors now have to spend time and energy to forestall, in return for support from physicians on the Administration's most important domestic policy initiative," says Henry Aaron, a senior fellow for health policy at the Brookings Institution. "This seems...
...catchier—and typically somewhat monotonous—pop songs with the same sort of thematic import that made the elegant, orchestral, deeply emotive “Yoshimi” standout “Do You Realize??” such a runaway hit. Instead, it oversimplified the formula, leaving even the catchiest of those songs relatively limp...
...Part of the challenge of implementing pro-breastfeeding legislation, in the developing world, has been the amount of resources and the determination needed to see the process through. In August this year Vietnam's Health Ministry announced the discovery of dozens of violations of the country's formula labeling rules. In its latest Breaking the Rules, Stretching the Rules report from 2007, IBFAN documents over 3,000 Code violations, committed by 12 companies in 67 countries, and collected since 2004. (See pictures of pregnant-belly...