Unlike some major sports leagues, the NBA has few concerns about changing its rules for what it sees as improvements to the quality of the game and the fan experience. The goal is to get closer to perfect, not to preserve an arcane sense of history and consistent, at least in theory. It's a...
...JUST what we deserve? Are you ready to watch everything the average working person who is struggling just to stay afloat from schools, to fire, police, schools, and all the things the filthy rich and big businesses HAVE and will continue to have be curtailed and eliminated as you watch the...
AcademyHealth congratulates Arnold Epstein, M.D., on his selection for Board of Governors of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Dr. Epstein, a former AcademyHealth board chair, is one of four candidates proposed by AcademyHealth last May. Established through the...
Politico: "Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas kicked off a National Governors Association summit on health care Monday with an ominous word about the date" and the need to beware the ides of March. "The governors feel like they've gotten the Brutus treatment, too." Earlier in the process, the White House...
"Some governors, frustrated by halted federal efforts to overhaul the U.S. health-care system" and by lingering budget shortfalls deepened by rising health costs, "are introducing their own changes at the state level," The Wall Street Journal reports. While some states, such as Massachusetts...