David M. Cutler: Health Reform Passes the Cost Test
Many people are worried that the health-care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats will fail to bend the “cost curve.” A number of commentators are urging no votes because of this, and Republicans have asked the president to start health reform over, focusing squarely on the issue of cost reduction.
These calls overlook the actual legislation. Over the past year of debate, 10 broad ideas have been offered for bending the health-care cost curve. The Democrats’ proposed legislation incorporates virtually every one of them. Here they are:
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Sunday, March 14th, from 10pm - 2am, we’re cohosting a Digital Speakeasy with our very good friends at blip.tv
The party is sponsored by the fine folks at PepsiCo (@pepsico), and will take place at Cedar Street Courtyard (the same place where Tumblr had their smashing party last year).
“What happened was the director and I had a bad difference over the direction of the film that resulted in a lawsuit that has settled amicably out of court. But there have been all these events around the Oscars, and I wasn’t invited to any of them. And he’s not speaking to me. So we weren’t even able to discuss ahead of the time who would be the one person allowed to speak if we won. And then, as I’m sure you saw, when we won, he raced up there to accept the award. And his mother took her cane and blocked me. So I couldn’t get up there very fast.”
Salon got his side of the story also.
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As long as humans keep “loving one [dogs & cats] and eating the other [farm animals],” the “other” will stop at nothing to fool us into loving them too. As The Daily Mail tells it, this chicken was so desperate to save her own hide that she concocted what is sure to go down as one of the most hair-brained schemes of the 21st century — pretending to be a dog!
Well played, ma’am, well played.
The irony is that the owners always wanted to keep this chicken as a pet anyway and never intended to slaughter her, so Chicken Little here is betraying her own species and making a fool of herself for nothing.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyxh9ePfOO1qzdsg5o1_500.jpg)
As long as humans keep “loving one [dogs & cats] and eating the other [farm animals],” the “other” will stop at nothing to fool us into loving them too. As The Daily Mail tells it, this chicken was so desperate to save her own hide that she concocted what is sure to go down as one of the most hair-brained schemes of the 21st century — pretending to be a dog!
Well played, ma’am, well played.
The irony is that the owners always wanted to keep this chicken as a pet anyway and never intended to slaughter her, so Chicken Little here is betraying her own species and making a fool of herself for nothing.
