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POPSHow Apple generates so much buzz Steve Jobs is truly a remarkable marketer. There is so much to learn from him, but i suspect that much of it either comes naturally or doesn't come at all.
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POPSWhat The White House's Public Plan "Retreat" Really Means
That's why Senate Democrats felt free to explore the cooperative option in the first place. To be honest, I'm not entirely convinced that HHS Sec. Sebelius and Press Secretary Robert Gibbs went on television today in order to say anything about the public plan. Yesterday, Obama himself admitted that the public plan ain't really what the bill is about. The White House DID play up the potential cost-cutting that a public plan might, sometime down the road, produce. Afterall, given the political environment at the time they first started to argue about health care, they had no choice: the public, Democrats in Congress were mouths-agape about the deficit. In polling and focus groups, cost works well. And the public option -- combined with the handy-dandy IMAC price commission proposal -- are curve-benders. Before the health care debate began in earnest, I can tell you that very senior White House officials believed that some form of public plan was absolutely necessary to . . .
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POPSCBO deals new blow to health plan On his White House blog, Orszag – who served as CBO director in 2007 and 2008 – downplayed the office's small probable savings number in favor of the proposal's more speculative long-term benefits. "The point of the proposal, however, was never to generate savings over the next decade. ... Instead, the goal is to provide a mechanism for improving quality of care for beneficiaries and reducing costs over the long term," Orszag wrote. "In other words, in the terminology of our belt-and-suspenders approach to a fiscally responsible health reform, the IMAC is a game changer not a scoreable offset." But scoreable offsets are the immediate savings that fiscally conservative Blue Dogs and other Democratic moderates have been pushing for precisely because they will help offset the bill's cost. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25415.html#ixzz0MNI5cCXd
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POPSMayo Clinic Not Impressed: Gibbs Comes Up Blank! Mayo Sees Potential in New IMAC Proposal Late yesterday, Mayo Clinic became aware of the concept of development of an Independent Medicare Advisory Council. We applaud the direction of this proposal. We view favorably the concept of an independent body that can move Medicare to a “value- based payment” model. An independent Medicare advisory commission focused on defining value, measuring it, and finding ways to pay for value could have significant, positive impact on health care for the long term. While we think the proposal’s timeline of 2014 is too long to wait to see value-based reforms, we look forward to working with the administration on refining and strengthening their new proposal. This, and other, bold concepts have the potential to “bend the cost curve” in U.S. health spending without compromising health. Obama Loves Mayo, But Mayo Does Not Love Him (Update: Gibbs Responds, Badly) Indeed, the Mayo Clinic is a model for great care at lower costs.
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POPSLate Leopard Drat. I have my heart set on an new iMac 24", but I'm waiting for Leopard.
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POPSDesktop Tablet solution A cool and very sophisticated Tablet PC solution for your desktop that takes advantage of windows vista's tablet pc functionality. It's from hp, and it looks hella expensive! very nice though...
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POPSG5 or Intel Core Duo? We are going to be getting one of these for the office. Anybody have any opinions on which to get (intel duo core or g5)? I've heard there are a lot of bugs yet to be worked out with the intel but also that it is a better processor. We def need something rock solid so that we can give demo's on it.
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