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• The Freshman Class and Health Reform Cost Containment

  
  Swampland — Authority: 724
  Lately, there has been no shortage of criticism that the Democratic health care bill doesnt do enough to cut health care spending. My colleague Karen Tumulty had a great story in the magazine recently about how cost-containment provisions in health reform legislation have been whittled down. Right now, on the Senate ...
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• Economists Growing More Wary of the Senate Health Bill

  
  Swampland — Authority: 724
  A few weeks back, the White House was jubilant when 23 prominent economists sent a letter to President Obama endorsing key elements of the Senate health care bill. Today, nearly all of those same economists and a few others--among them, Nobel prize winners, former presidents of the American Economic Association and ...
  3 days ago

• Obama Must Finish Mr. Bush’s Work or ‘Marginalize’ the West: La Stampa of Italy

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 701
  ‘NEW COURSE’ Continuing with our global look at reaction to President Obama’s Afghan strategy, particularly within NATO, this article from Italy’s La Stampa will warm the hearts of those who believe that President Bush was on the right track. With some startling statistics, columnist Lucia Annunziata ...
  3 days ago

• Workers Protections Expanded Under New York Law

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 138
  As often stated   our articles are usually about workers’ compensation cost containment for employers.  So, why do we talk about laws seeming to favor or be directed towards employees? It’s simple.  In accounting there are direct expenses: costs of doing business known about and planned for.  Then ...
  5 days ago

• Moderates propose health care cost controls

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  Two moderate senators who could be crucial to passage of President Barack Obamas health care overhaul pushed for greater cost containment measures in the landmark legislation.
  6 days ago

• Is Containing Al-Qaeda the Real Endgame in Afghanistan-Pakistan?

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Dedicated readers know that since March I’ve been trying to determine how the Obama administration conceives of the actual endgame in Afghanistan-Pakistan — that is, the point at which we can say the mission is successful. The whole strategy is geared around the elimination of al-Qaeda’s safe havens in ...
  6 days ago

• Crusading Professor Challenges Dartmouth Atlas On Claims Of Wasteful Health Care Spending

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 126
  The Obama administration demands four cornerstones of healthcare reform: (1) a Medicare cost-containment Commission , (2) taxing high-cost private insurance , (3) reform of medical payment incentives, and (4) deficit reduction. Each of these cornerstones has serious potential to reduce our health coverage, while the ...
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• 33 Percent Increase in Maximum Weekly TTD Benefit Results in 17.5 Percent Impact on Utilization

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 138
  NCCI Study Looks at Benefit Increase Impact In a new study,  NCCI uses a “difference in differences” methodology to analyze the impact of benefit changes Oregon and New Mexico.  They found for each $1 of direct benefit increase, there is an added $0.54 average cost due to increased claim durations.  The ...
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• Know Why Your Company Disability Pay May Sabotage Your Return To Work Program

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 138
  If not properly coordinated ,  a company’s employee benefit and compensation programs may inadvertently serve to extend workers’ compensation absences. That happens because there is no incentive to return to work when someone is able to make as much OR MORE when NOT WORKING. When designing your integrated ...
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• Tax on high-cost health plans is to strip down employer-provided health coverage, not raise revenue

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 126
  As this and another recent NY Times piece explain, the Obama administration demands four cornerstones of healthcare reform: (1) a Medicare cost-containment Commission, (2) taxing high-cost private insurance, (3) reform of medical payment incentives, and (4) deficit reduction.  Each of these cornerstones is designed ...
  1 week ago

• Puke, Piss &Shit-New Global Goyim Cattle "Containment"-Chinese,Indians,Koreans Import 40Gal Barrels Crystal Meth Raw Ingredients

  
  Kentuckyanna true news — Authority: 157
  Puke, Piss &Shit-New Global Goyim Cattle "Containment"-Chinese,Indians,Koreans Import 40Gal Barrels Crystal Meth Raw Ingredients
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• Safe Storage for Hazardous Material

  
  The Publicists Assistant — Authority: 485
  They may hire a personal liability attorney and litigate on a contingency basis (which basically costs them nothing, win or lose), but you get to pay your lawyer $200/hour to defend what may be a real or imaginary injury. Besides that, government regulations are pretty specific as to what needs to be safely stored and ...
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• Workers Comp Coverage Act Prevents Construction Employee Misclassification Fights Fraud and Reduces Costs

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 138
  Construction Industry Workers’ Compensation Coverage Act Approved Recent unanimous   approval of a model act to protect construction workers by The National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) sent a strong message against employee misclassification for constructions workers.  The model reportedly ...
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• The State of the Workers Compensation Marketplace

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 138
  In spite of  economic conditions, the workers’ compensation marketplace remains remarkably stable and not significantly changed from a year ago. There are, however, key factors on the horizon that could negatively impact the profitability and future prognosis for the line. Evidence of  the line’s ...
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• “Commission” is Washington Speak for Cutting Social Security and Medicare

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 126
  Truthout, December 1, 2009 Dean Baker Commission” Is Washington Speak for Cutting Social Security and Medicare The “experts” who could not see the $8 trillion housing bubble that wrecked the economy are now telling us that we have to create a special commission so that they can cut Social Security and ...
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• Some Frightening Statistics about Workers’ Compensation Costs

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 138
  Below are some  statistics about workers’ comp costs and some things to consider when looking to cut costs.  Also, we   invite you to participate in a new survey designed to gather additional statistical information about what is going on in the insurance industry.  Here is a link to the survey: ...
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• Brainstorming Workers Compensation Program Recommendations

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 138
  Okay , so we have covered how to gather recommendations, and you’ve put together your workers’ compensation team and assessed your strengths and weaknesses.  Now it’s time to look at your recommended course of action and review the next steps. Many of these steps will apply to both private employers and public ...
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• ObamaCare: Let the Rationing Begin

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  Last week,  the Federal Government Ivory Tower trumpeted important news.  One of its illustrious Task Forces has decided that women in their 40’s would be the first to experience “Medical Darwinism.” The United States Preventive Services Task Force, comprised of 16 appointees, decreed that: ...
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• ObamaCare Won’t Work as Promised: Here’s the Proof

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  The controversy surrounding the recent mammography guidelines issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is a recommendation for swift and decisive defeat of efforts to expand federal oversight of health care.  It almost seems as if this was designed as a laboratory experiment to learn exactly what will happen ...
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• Senate Health Bill is Milestone … In Rationing

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 126
  I find this a pretty convincing argument that the Senate healthcare bill is about rationing, if you define rationing as Ewe Reinhardt did in a recent NY Times piece , meaning decisions by insurers about what will be covered, versus what has to be paid for out-of-pocket. As this article indcates, in the future these ...
  1 week ago

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