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...squeezing out stumbling rivals. Fielmann, which also operates in Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Poland, plans to open 150 new stores in Germany alone, as many as 30 of them this year. Georg Alexander Zeiss, Fielmann's head of finance, says that he is also considering acquisitions of smaller, weaker competitors. "We are looking at every serious opportunity," Zeiss says...
...achieve his fast-track strategy, which calls for review by the full committee next week and the House before its August recess. The odds of passage there are considered good. Only then will the issue have a chance to get attention in the Senate, where a similar but weaker bill has already been introduced. Unless it gets bogged down by health-care legislation, the Senate is likely to approve some version of food-safety reform. The best assurance of stronger controls is the fear that inaction could lead to inevitable consequences. "What are they going to do," asks Foreman...
...Association (AMA) said that while it is willing to consider a public plan under some circumstances, it "opposes any public plan that forces physicians to participate, expands the fiscally challenged Medicare program or pays Medicare rates." In other words, it will insist upon a public plan that is far weaker than many liberals would like...
...version has a government-run option, which Democrats say would be crucial to holding down costs and to provide competition that would, in President Barack Obama's words, "keep insurance companies honest," but which Republicans say would be a deal-breaker. Still, the House model appears to be far weaker than one described in early drafts of the HELP Committee's legislation. If those early drafts are any indication, the HELP version would look a lot like Medicare, with the rates that it reimburses hospitals, doctors and other health-care providers linked to those paid by the government medical plan...
...compete with a Medicare-like option, some of the big companies say privately they could live with a government plan, if it had to sustain itself (as they do) on the premiums they collect, and if it is subject to the same regulatory rules that they are. Similarly, the weaker House version would not run into as much opposition from hospitals and doctors, who don't want yet another government plan squeezing them the way that Medicare does. However, that kind of plan would disappoint many liberals, who had hoped that a muscular public plan might be the first step...