John Goodman

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• Viva a Monarquia!

  
  Quixotando — Authority: 126
  Pois já é hora de Dom Sebastião retornar e acabar com a lei do cão. *Rei Por Acaso (King Ralph, David S. Ward, 1991) Posted in ANOS 90 Tagged: JOHN GOODMAN
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• 2009/11/13

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 564
  Joe Flower (The Health Blog): Free-market competition fails in health care . Whereas suppression of the market is working swimmingly? (I couldn’t make this stuff up.) Marcia Angell (Huffington Post): “I would rather see us do nothing now . [The House health care reform bill] throws more money into a ...
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• 2009/11/13

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 564
  More than half the Members of Congress are millionaires . The Republican National Committee’s health insurance plan covers elective abortions for its employees . Bloomberg News: Adding 36 million Americans to the insurance rolls will worsen a family doctor shortage, triggering longer waits for office visits and ...
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• Pelosi Bill Has a 69% Capital Gains Tax Hike

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 564
  House Democrats are funding their new entitlement with a 5.4% surtax on incomes above $500,000 for individuals and above $1 million for joint filers. That surtax takes effect on January 1, 2011, or the day the Bush tax rates of 2001 and 2003 expire. Today’s capital gains tax rate of 15% would bounce back to 20% ...
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• Are We Headed Toward Bankruptcy?

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 564
  This is Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt: As Post health reporter Ceci Connolly explained in a front-page story last week, the House bill also does not do much to lower costs . It includes some valuable pilot programs. But it doesn’t end the tax break for employer-provided insurance, a break ...
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• Does Anyone Believe the ObamaCare Cuts in Medicare Spending are Real? Probably Not.

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 564
  This is John Cassidy, writing in The New Yorker : Reductions in Medicare outlays, according to this CBO analysis , would save four hundred and twenty-six billion dollars between 2010 and 2019 compared with current plans. Look a bit more closely, and you find that more than half of the Medicare savings (two ...
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• Obama Wants to Spend Less Money on You at the End of Your Life

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 564
  This is from The New York Times : At New York University Langone Medical Center, for example, Medicare spending was $105,000 per patient during the last two years of life. During the last six months of life, when costs go up still more sharply, patients at the center spent an average of 31 days in the hospital and ...
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• Monsters, Inc. Blu-Ray DVD Review

  
  Are You Screening? — Authority: 432
  Your favorite monsters are back, and the  Monsters, Inc. Blu-Ray release is one you’ve got to pick up. Loaded with some great special features, this is a nice package well worth the price, and fans will love getting the film in gorgeous high definition. The 4-disc release comes with all new special features, the ...
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• Cost of the Medicare Physician Payment Fix (SRG): Four Trillion Dollars

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 564
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• Unequal Treatment of Equals

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 564
  This is what happens in the health insurance exchange under the Baucus bill: If the family lives in the high-cost Bronx, Chicago, Baton Rouge, Detroit, or Las Vegas, they will get a government subsidy of $6,365 to buy health insurance. A family with the same income living in average-cost St. Louis, Reno, or ...
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• 2009/11/11

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 564
  Should taxpayer-funded health insurance pay for city employees’ sex-change operations? Yes, says a city-sponsored diversity task force. Five tips for improving medication adherence : One-third to one-half of all patients in the United States do not take their medications as prescribed. The benefit of a bad mood ...
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• Have Medical Need, Will Travel

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 564
  This is from Deloitte’s Medical Tourism: Update and Implications 2009 report: We project that outbound medical tourism could reach upwards of 1.6 million patients by 2012, with sustainable annual growth of 35 percent. Concurrently, inbound medical tourism will see relatively slow growth to report up to 561,000 ...
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• Squeezing the Providers, Part I

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 564
  The political left in the United States, and for that matter, throughout the world, only knows two ways to try to control health care costs: (1) squeeze the providers and (2) deny patients care. Since they don’t believe in markets or economic incentives or entrepreneurship (the way costs are controlled in other ...
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• How Risky is Smoking? Your Genes May Tell.

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 564
  This is from The New York Times : The Respiragene test looks at 20 spots in a person’s genome where DNA varies among people. It uses that data, as well as nongenetic information like the person’s smoking history, to compute a risk score… The average smoker has a lifetime risk of lung cancer of about 10 ...
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• Tell Me Again About the Definition of Insanity…

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 564
  This is from Kaiser Health News : Medicare has conducted hundreds of tests, called pilots or demonstration projects , since the mid-1970s… Most of these experiments haven’t been expanded because they failed a threshold test; they didn’t save money or improve care. Others passed the test but were derailed by ...
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• Monster’s Inc. – 4-Disc Combo Pack with DVD and Digital Copy – Blu-Ray Review

  
  The Scorecard Review — Authority: 435
  Blu-Ray Review Monster’s Inc. Directed by: Pete Docter Cast: (Voices) Billy Crystal, John Goodman, James Coburn Running Time: 1 hr 30 mins Rating: G Due Out: November 10, 2009 PLOT: In the world of bedtime monsters, the screams of children are a valuable source of energy. At the same time, kids are also ...
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• Monsters, Inc- Blu Ray Edition

  
  ReadJunk.com — Authority: 142
  Starring: John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Jennifer Tilly, Steve Buscemi, James CoburnWritten By: Andrew Stanton, Daniel GersonDirected By: Pete Docter, David Silverman, Lee UnkrichStudio: Disney/Buena VistaPixar Animation’s fourth film, Monsters Inc, now available in Disney Blu Ray, continues to impress with yet ...
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• 2009/11/10

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 564
  The Swiss crack down on “suicide tourism .” Chefs: Best route to healthier eating: cut the portions, not the calories . Can eating baloney sandwiches depress you? Maybe. Study : CT scans may be increasing cancer risks . Study: About 100,500 new cases of cancer are caused by obesity every year . ...
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• 2009/11/10

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 564
  About 75 percent of America’s 17- to 24-year-olds are ineligible for military service : The reason: they are poorly educated, overweight and have physical ailments that make them unfit for the armed forces. Embryo mix-up : Woman gives birth to a baby boy after being implanted with an embryo that wasn’t hers. ...
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• Why We Have a Quality Problem

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 564
  In a survey of 1,000 U.S. hospitals , just half the boards rated quality of care as one of their two top priorities. Only 44% reported that quality of care was important for evaluating the performance of the chief executive officer (CEO). Remember Goodman’s Theorem : If providers don’t compete on price, they ...
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