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The legislation, which had been pushed by Mayor Kasim Reed, was passed unanimously by city council last week.
The new ordinance outlaws asking for money more than once and also forbids asking for money within 15 feet of a building entrance.Most of the people FOX 5 News spoke with on Wednesday said that they hadn't heard about the new legislation. In fact, FOX 5 reporter Julia Reynolds said that she encountered more aggressive panhandlers than last month.The mayor's office says there's a 30-day notification period before it will be enforced.
Under the new law, first-offenders will have to perform community service. A second conviction for aggressive panhandling would mean a minimum of 30 days in jail. Upon the third conviction, the violator will serve a minimum of 90 days in jail.
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Architects and officials representing to the city's planning commission Thursday night, in hopes of finding common ground with neighbors.
But residents — who had less than a day to review the new plans — were less than thrilled.
The was listening.
The commission tabled a decision on a request that would consolidate the property and change the south parcels from residential to commercially zoned properties.
Drug Mart officials presented redesigned site plans, that included reducing the size of the store from 28,000 square feet to 24,000 square feet, taking away 12 parking spaces and scrapping plans to demolish a 100-year-old home abutting the proposed store.
However, developers would still raze an 11-unit apartment building standing in the way of the development. The tenants have already received their eviction notices.
Tim Moran, the construction and development manager for , said that the store needs a larger space than its 19,000 square feet space at 11900 Detroit Avenue to include a new grocery service.
"Our mission is delivery a quality shopping experience," he said, adding that the new store would add as many as 10 new jobs. "In order to do all of this we need a 25,000-square-foot footprint."
Most of the nearly two-dozen residents who spoke at the meeting weren't buying it.
The expressed concerns about traffic, noise, pollution and — with across the street — safety.
Colleen Cotter, who lives two doors down south of the proposed plans, said most of the neighbors aren't against .
"In fact, we've been a little lonely since Ganley left," she said. "Our concern is the additional space. It becomes a much bigger commercial enterprise in a residential neighborhood. There is a line."
She also noted some concern that residents only received the plans a day before the meeting.
"Be careful of turning over residential properties for commercial use," Cotter warned the commission. "It looks great, but you can't get rid of things like light and noise and exhaust from delivery trucks."
Another neighbor said she supports the project — top to bottom.
"The lot that abuts mine has always been used for trucks and delivery," she said, noting that she's happy the site will no longer be vacant. "Since Drug Mart has taken over the property, they've at least taken care of the landscaping."
The commission voted to discuss the issue again at its July meeting. However, the issue will come again before the city next week, when Drug Mart will present the building's designs at the architectural board of review meeting next Thursday.

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Nearly as soon as Tiger Woods withdrew on Sunday from The Players Championship, the rumor mill got to work churning out speculation that it may be a lingering injury from his car accident on Nov. 27. You may have heard something about that -- he crashed into a fire hydrant, leaving him with a busted lip and ... a sore neck (cue dramatic music).
Well, Tiger addressed the media on Monday, and quickly put to rest any thoughts that the two may be connected, saying that there is "zero connection."
The neck pain apparently began two weeks prior to the Masters, and it finally reached a level that he could no longer tolerate, nor play through.
"I'm at a point now where I just can't go anymore," he said.
"I want to practice, I want to play, I want to compete, but this is not allowing me to do the things that I need to do on my golf swing to hit the proper shots. I need to get to where I can do that again."
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Look, there is no doubt that we'd have to give up pieces in order to get our "Big 2". The trade would have to be centered around Gallo and will probably include pieces like Chandler or Fields (and Curry, obviously). We'd all love to see them blossom into stars that we ourselves drafted. And while there's no doubt that they all have potential, they are a long time away from even being considered potential All-Stars. Yes, they would be important role players on a championship squad, with the potential to be a 2nd or 3rd option. But what some of you here fail to see is that we'd be getting a 26 year old potential All-Star that wants to be here. We'd have a scorer that can immediately take our half-court sets to new heights, something which is a huge weakness for the Knicks. Many of you complain about Amar'e playing too many minutes, especially in crunch-time. Well if Carmelo came here, we'd have 2 lights-out scorers that compliment each other perfectly. Granted, it's not a Bryant/Gasol type of tandem, but Melo will draw double-teams and leave Amar'e open to rampage inside the paint, and in doing so, spread the whole floor, leaving open looks for Felton or whoever else would stay.
The problem I have with most of your opinions regarding Carmelo (Rorschach, mindfeck, etc.) is that, from what I've been reading, you think this level of play will continue. It will not. The positive surprises on this team far encompass the negatives. The only improvements I could think of is Randolph playing at least at the level he did in GS (highly unlikely) or Gallo and Ill Will becoming consistent. But Amar'e is playing a huge amount of minutes, and he single-handedly won us that Denver game. Felton's been playing out of his mind as well. Both are, however complaining of soreness, and we're only 20+ games into the season.
So should we get a back-up PG or C instead? It sounds like the logical step Donnie should take. What would, however, our potential be if we do get those pieces? A 4-5th seed, at the max. Now let's say we wait for next year's free agency and sign somebody like Nene, or anybody else, to fill our needs. What is our potential then? We still wouldn't be a title contender. And that, I think is the problem. How about we get Melo, automatically become a top 4 seed in the East for years to come, and worry about what we need to do to upgrade later? Wouldn't that be a better way of thinking? A big body is easy to find, and people forget we have a certain Russian with confidence issues putting up DNP-CD every night. Getting somebody to spell Ray-Ray can be done in the draft (we actually have a 1st round pick this year!!) or through a trade. Get the big pieces first, then fill the holes. Not the other way around.
I know some of you guys are going to butcher me for my opinion. Just remember, that we got STAT so we can win titles. Not to merely be a decent team. I think we've been traumatized (if that's the right word) from the last decade so bad, that we are content with a team that has is a bit worse than it record actually shows. Just remember, after this season, we have 4 more years of STAT, the last of which, arguably, won't be as dominant from him. This chance doesn't come around too often, so let's act now. And let's stop fretting about Melo's "intangibles", or lack thereof. Please.


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Russia's National Drug Insurance: Healthy Society, Healthy Economy
As Russia faces a declining population and a rise in chronic illness, a new, pharma-focused healthcare system could boost the economy and improve clinical outcomes.
Russia is on the horns of a dilemma. In the 10 years leading up to the recession of 2008–2009, Russia's economic growth seemed unstoppable, expanding at an average annual rate of 7 percent as oil prices rose and the energy sector thrived. And even since the recession, which led to a sharp drop in GDP in 2009, the economy has quickly rebounded, growing at a healthy 4 to 5 percent in 2011.1
However, in the past 15 years, Russia's population has declined nearly 4 percent, which is hardly the recipe for long-term sustainable economic development. According to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) statistics, life expectancy for a Russian male is now 61.8 years and 74.2 years for a female (see figure 1). Russia's average life expectancy is 20 percent lower than that of most European Union member states—only slightly better than for males in Haiti and Myanmar—and roughly 10 percent below those of comparable emerging countries. Deaths from cancer, cardiovascular disease, and alcohol-related disease have thrown Russia into what the United Nations calls a state of "hypermortality" that is having a grave impact on health, social welfare, and national productivity. Furthermore, continued economic development predicted for the next decade could accelerate these trends as increased wealth and improved quality of life lead to richer diets and less exercise, and exacerbates the risk factors for chronic diseases.
However, the major causes of death in Russia are largely preventable and treatable, which means that this population trend is avoidable. The problem is that the nation's healthcare system is ill-equipped to deal with the sharp increase in incidence of chronic disease. Russia has neither the sustained level of investment in resources and infrastructure to provide its citizens with timely access to affordable, high-quality healthcare, nor a cohesive healthcare policy that rewards longer-term changes in behavior.
As we know by observing other countries, effective healthcare systems are both possible and affordable. For Russia, such a healthcare system would present the government with a golden opportunity to provide a social and economic breakthrough for its people.
Russia is not alone in its problems, and the lessons learned from the country's current dilemma are instructive for countries seeking to reshape healthcare policy as a way to drive and support sustainable economic development. In this paper, we examine a major aspect of the healthcare policy debate taking place in Russia today—national drug insurance (NDI).
A Vision for National Drug Insurance
While some drug coverage already exists in Russia, the system is plagued by many issues, including low funding levels, relatively late disease intervention in the clinical pathway, high copayments that discourage treatment compliance, and the possibility to choose a cash payout without having to purchase any medicine. Generally speaking, Russia's drug system treats coverage as a cost to be controlled rather than a cost-effective investment in social wellbeing. Furthermore, the quality and safety profiles of medicine on the Russian market is unclear—by some accounts, as much as 15 percent of medicine in Russia is counterfeit—so treatment variability for the same disease is high.
With this in mind, A.T. Kearney recently examined roughly 20 NDI schemes around the world. We consulted with health policy and health economics experts to identify best practices that maximize the benefits of drug coverage and contribute to the development of a healthy, viable domestic pharmaceutical industry. In the course of our work, we also conferred with primary Russian stakeholders at the federal and regional levels.
Our analysis of drug-coverage models is structured around three linchpins critical to a proper balance between economic and health priorities: coverage and eligibility, structure and funding, and controls and incentives (see figure 2). We also examined how certain aspects of the overall health system and its economics influence NDIs' sustainability and effectiveness in terms of health outcomes.
Our findings helped us define the contours of a best-practice NDI scheme for Russia. That model features, among other characteristics:
Coverage and eligibility. A federally approved minimum formulary balances essential drugs, chronic care, and innovative new therapies. It includes tiered patient participation in drug costs—initially up to 50 percent but moving progressively to 20 to 30 percent—with full exemptions for those who cannot afford to contribute, and with hospital products free at the point of delivery. And the right to receive federal contributions to drug purchases as a cash payment is discontinued.
Structure and funding. A competitive market for supplementary insurance covers patient copayments, with clear accountability for drug budgets and funding flows at the federal and regional levels.
Controls and incentives. Electronic medicine tracking is established in accordance with future European Union standards. New ambulatory-care incentives focus on early diagnosis and treatment of chronic diseases, recognizing that medicine is an investment that helps avoid future costs. High levels of automation ensure real-time monitoring of activity, efficient claims processing, and swift reimbursement.
A model designed in accordance with these principles would not only improve medical outcomes, create a more productive workforce, and, potentially, create sustainable economic development, but it would also lay the groundwork for an innovative domestic pharmaceutical industry (see figure 3).
In the following sections, we examine in greater detail some of the best practices we found and the implications for the design of an NDI scheme for the Russian market.
Coverage and Eligibility
Any rational payer in a health system is seeking to maximize its return on healthcare and medicines spending. Following this logic, and considering the finite nature of financial resources, a payer should naturally seek to fund those treatments, interventions, and medicine that generate the greatest health benefit for an insured population. While developing countries such as China and Mexico provide coverage in line with the WHO's essential drugs list, European nations such as Germany and Sweden tend to provide broader medicine coverage, including innovative drugs that offer significant improvements in quality and standard of care. Generally, funds spent on drugs that prevent disease and manage chronic illnesses—starting relatively early in the clinical pathway—provide more "bang for the buck" than money spent managing conditions that have reached the acute stage (see figure 4).
Determining which population segments to include in a drug-insurance scheme, and whether their participation is voluntary or compulsory, is another major aspect of the coverage and eligibility debate. In this respect, basic social concepts of fairness and equality come into play, as do considerations of how to create a risk pool balanced enough to make premiums—whatever their source—affordable to all people and to the system as a whole, with healthy citizens helping to finance the sick. Turkey, Spain, and France, for example, require all their citizens to pay into national public health insurance, while Australia offers its residents a private-coverage option in lieu of enrolling in the public plan. Most health-system experts consider compulsory healthcare and drug coverage under state-run programs, with no potential for opt-out, to be the most appropriate way to fund the provision of medicine.
Another consideration is the degree to which insured patients are obligated to share in the cost of their prescription drug purchases through out-of-pocket deductibles or copayments. While some copayments can be a sensible way to encourage responsible behaviors, the system must be designed so not to discourage drug usage for critical illnesses that, if left untreated, would lead to more severe health problems (and considerably higher social expense elsewhere in the system). It is particularly important that copayment systems be designed to enable the poor and disadvantaged, who tend to suffer more from chronic diseases, to access medicine.
Many countries apply tiered discount systems based on therapeutic indications and the ability to pay (see figure 5). For example, Spain recently enacted reforms that require its insured population to pay between 40 and 60 percent of the cost of prescription drugs dispensed outside of the hospital setting, depending on family income and number of children, although copayments are limited to 10 percent and capped at €2.69 (roughly $3.50) for drugs used in the long-term treatment of chronic conditions such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or diabetes. Pensioners have to pay 10 percent of the cost of medicine, up to a monthly limit of either €8 or €18 ($10 or $23, respectively), depending on income.2 In France, patients who suffer from a number of long-term disorders, severe disabling conditions, or multiple illnesses are exempt from copayments, subject to approval by a medical inspector. Turkey provides full drug insurance to three socially vulnerable groups: those who earn less than one-third of the minimum wage, pensioners, and patients diagnosed with chronic diseases.
Setting copayments at a level that optimizes financial participation and patient access to care is crucial. Many best-practice examples of multi-tier copayment structures exist, incorporating large differentials designed to create clear incentives for lower-tier use. Consider, for instance, medicine for which there is strong evidence of effectiveness when prescribed early, such as those used to treat diabetes and hypertension. Such medicines can have the lowest copayments in a multi-tier structure, thereby encouraging earlier uptake and treatment adherence while reducing longer-term healthcare costs. Managed-care plans in the United States, for example, are finding that they need targeted copayment reductions to encourage effective care in certain long-term conditions such as type 2 diabetes
Drawing on our examination of international markets, then, we recommend that Russia establish a national medicine formulary that covers not only essential drugs but also medicine that manages chronic diseases. Participation in the system should be compulsory for the entire population, not only to build a viable risk pool but also to ensure that everyone has a stake in its success. At first, a 50 percent copayment level seems reasonable in a country whose citizens are accustomed to bearing the full cost of medication—maintaining exemptions for children and veterans, and possibly a 20 percent copayment for pregnant women and patients diagnosed with the top 10 diseases.
Structure and funding. The first question when it comes to funding is to what extent medicine and healthcare coverage can be managed separately. Medicine, of course, cannot be treated as a mere consumer good, nor should the use of medicine be considered optional. Rather, medicine is one more instrument in the disease-treatment toolbox—although perhaps the one most frequently used, most accessible to the patient, and, hence, the one whose cost payers fear is most likely to spiral out of control. Consequently, is it preferable to combine monies to pay for medicine and health service coverage, or is it better public policy to fund each separately?
A comparative review reveals models at both ends of the spectrum. Canada, for example, distinguishes between funding of health services and medicine, with the latter financed through separate insurance plans (both public and private). On the other hand, Turkey—similar to most models in Western Europe—uses the same revenue source to fund both, although spending for each is budgeted separately.
Integrating the funding of both avoids perverse incentives to favor one at the expense of the other, which tends to lead to poorer overall health outcomes and higher costs. In short, joint funding allows the system to manage the "whole patient." Nonetheless, even in integrated systems, spending on medicine is always under threat from cost-containment measures because it is easy to get at, and it avoids more politically difficult decisions such as cuts in services, staffing, or facilities. To avoid the diversion of funds to less efficient areas, drug spending is best protected through earmarked allocations.
A second major issue to consider when examining structure and funding is the respective roles of private and public insurers. In countries such as France, where high per-capita medicine consumption causes drug copayments to add up quickly, private drug insurance markets thrive, helping to ensure that patient access to medicine does not suffer. In other systems, the role of private insurance is largely limited to covering secondary care.
The final issue is structural, namely the extent of government centralization necessary to fund and administer the drug insurance program. Again, successful examples can be found across the continuum. France exercises strong national control over nearly every aspect of the drug-insurance system, with the regions' role limited to administration. Spain combines strong regional administration with a basic framework of national controls: marketing authorizations, value assessments, and pricing are the prerogative of the central government, while regional governments oversee medicine budgets, formularies, and administration. It should be noted, however, that decentralization of health insurance in Spain seems to have reached its limits, and much of the public debate now revolves around the need to ensure greater uniformity across the country. Canada, which also has a federal structure, has likewise propitiated a more regional approach. As in Spain, this arrangement has become increasingly divisive, given the high variations in coverage and patient participation in costs between rich and poor provinces. Federal authorities are crucial to ensuring that minimum universal standards are set and that risk-equalization funding mechanisms are in place. Whichever model is chosen, clear accountability is vital.
Our recommendation to Russia is, first, that healthcare and medicine be jointly financed, with funding for the latter protected through specific appropriations. Second, while the emergence of a vibrant private health-and-medicine insurance market in Russia would be desirable, those who choose to purchase such insurance should not be allowed to opt out of the public system. Third, marketing authorizations, pricing and reimbursement decisions, value assessments, and definition of the minimum formulary should be conducted at the federal level. Regional governments could be allowed to participate in administering medicine and managing the budget, but they should not be allowed to overrule—or undermine—federal decisions.
Controls and incentives. All of the markets we reviewed have a comprehensive framework of controls and incentives to drive cost-effective, quality prescribing and to assure patient safety. At a basic level, authorities must be able to guarantee that medicine is safe and that patients are protected from predatory pricing if they are required to make major out-of-pocket contributions to the cost of their drugs.
Counterfeit drugs are rampant in many parts of the world, as are drugs made with suspect raw materials or using methods that fail to conform to good manufacturing practice (GMP). Supply-chain integrity is crucial to protecting consumers from unscrupulous profiteers.
Most developed markets have high-quality standards and tough supply controls. Mexico, Brazil, China, and many other countries, on the other hand, continue to struggle with falsifications or drugs of dubious quality that endanger public health. Considering the stakes, GMP must be strictly enforced, and drugs must be systematically tracked throughout the supply chain. This is in the best interests of patients and for the development of a competitive domestic pharmaceutical industry. European markets will be progressively implementing two-dimensional data matrix barcoding—with a unique encrypted code for each pack—to track products at every step in the supply chain. Given the complex nature of Russia's pharmaceutical supply chain, compounded by the problem of counterfeits, authorities will be best served by adopting similar standards.
Patients also need to be protected from price exploitation by distribution channels. The overwhelming majority of the best-practice markets we examined either set nationally approved prices or establish maximum prices. In addition, margins and markups at each stage of the supply chain, at both the wholesale and pharmacy levels, are often either fixed or capped to ensure transparent pricing throughout. The dispensing of expensive drugs is increasingly restricted to hospital settings as a means of keeping their costs under control.
Moving beyond the basics, the current focus for most of the best-practice systems we examined is the enactment of clinical guidelines. More than ever, payers and health administrators are balancing limited resources against rising social demands, and they are pressing for providers to adopt consistent best practices to ensure the most effective use of resources. In relation to drugs, the main trend is to manage their appropriate use at each stage of the patient pathway so that innovative products are used when there is evidence of their effectiveness, and cheaper alternatives are favored over more expensive options when both would provide the same outcome. Clinical guidelines, however, should not just reflect cost priorities, but also the patient's right to high standards of care. Clinicians should have the flexibility to exercise their judgment where there is a clear patient interest.
Of course, what isn't measured doesn't get done, as the saying goes, and no control system can work without a well-designed, well-oiled information and performance-management system that offers a transparent view into how money is being spent. Spain and France lead the pack in terms of how they capture and report information on drug prescription and dispensation, and how they track funds. Best practices include electronic patient eligibility cards (such as Turkey's "green card" or France's Carte Vitale) and automated, near real-time fund flows between payers, the pharmacy network, and patients, thus minimizing administrative costs.
For Russia—and particularly for the safety of its citizens—the enforcement of GMP and the implementation of EU-compliant medicine tracking are vital steps. Medicine should be priced at a sufficiently attractive level to encourage the development of a local supply base, and channel margins should be regulated to avoid abuses. Furthermore, establishing federal clinical guidelines (with regional modification, if needed) can make sure that the right drugs are used at the best time in the patient pathway. Lastly, instituting patient eligibility cards and electronic financing systems can enable swift payment and ensure transparent funding.
Balancing Health and Economic Priorities
As we noted previously, experience shows that an NDI strategy can contribute significantly to national productivity over a relatively short timeframe—provided that drugs are seen as an investment and not a cost, and funding is targeted at addressing chronic illnesses. Moreover, as Russia's own Pharma 2020 strategy already acknowledges, a new approach to medicine coverage presents a significant opportunity for the Russian government to look beyond the immediate healthcare benefits of NDI and seize the opportunity to transform the prospects of domestic pharmaceutical research and production by creating an attractive market that can attract quality investment.
For Russia, it might be tempting for the government to look at its industrial policy separately from its approach to drug coverage, where budget optimization may be the main goal, but the two are clearly interdependent. The competition for quality investment is truly global in nature, starting with academic powerhouses on the U.S. east and west coasts and going around the globe to new life-sciences hubs springing up around Shanghai, Singapore, and near Hyderabad, India. But the interdependency goes further. The development of a viable and sustainable medical research industry in Russia requires scientists and clinicians with experience on the cutting edge of treatment. Increasingly, clinical trials are designed to make head-to-head comparisons, so having a sufficient number of patients treated according to the current standards of care will be essential to attracting investment in clinical research. As the United Kingdom has learned to its regret, a pure focus on cost effectiveness not only can run counter to the best interests of patients, but also lead to deterioration in a location's attractiveness as an investment destination as clinical professions become increasingly "de-skilled."
Companies seeking to invest and build a presence in Russia—or any market, for that matter—must trust that their investment will be safeguarded through rigorously enforced industrial-property laws and anti-counterfeiting measures that protect patents and revenues. Profit reforms, together with incentives for R&D and other investments, are important steps that both emerging and developed countries have effectively used to build local pharmaceutical industries (see sidebar: Ireland: Building a Thriving Pharmaceutical Industry). Mexico and Turkey, for example, have introduced data exclusivity laws that protect against the duplication of patented medicines. Brazil has reduced tax rates on pharmaceutical manufacturing, and the United Kingdom has profit allowances for pharma investments. Turkey also offers tax exemptions on R&D expenses and income-tax reductions for employees to encourage investment in pharmaceutical R&D.
Challenges to Implementation
The principles we've outlined can guide the creation of an expanded Russian NDI scheme that builds on the solid foundations of existing territorial funds, using them as the basis for an integrated health-and-medicine fund in ambulatory settings to better manage total patient costs.
However, implementing broader drug coverage will require additional funding that cannot be covered by simply making the system more efficient—indeed, Russia's per-capita spending on medicine lags other comparable economies. This issue must be tackled head-on (see figure 6).
While any number of options—including employer contributions, wealth taxes, or so-called sin taxes on alcohol and tobacco—could be developed to cover funding needs in the medium and long term, initial pump-priming will be needed to get the new drug-insurance scheme going. In line with other resource-rich countries such as Norway, which has used its oil wealth to help build a highly developed welfare state, Russia might also consider letting sovereign wealth funding play a significant role in financing NDI.
Implementation in Russia will require resolving several contentious and complicated issues about how to shift from a near-term focus on curing diseases and protecting the frail to a longer-term emphasis on the prevention, early detection, and timely management of chronic diseases. Specifically, Russia will need to:
- Develop a system to cap copayments at a level that neither discourages patients from seeking treatment for chronic diseases nor denies citizens access to the medicine they need
- Find the proper balance between innovation, affordability, and health outcomes through a combination of reference prices and clinical guidelines, in concert with pharmaceutical manufacturers operating in the Russian market
- Provide the control mechanisms and tools necessary to protect the system from runaway spending and ensure the transparency of financial flows, even in the face of universal coverage
Resolving these thorny issues will require broad stakeholder consensus, encompassing numerous public and private agents: the presidential administration, the Ministry of Health, the territorial funds for obligatory medical insurance, physicians, pharmacies, providers of vital drugs, pharmaceutical distributors, and patients, to name just a few.
A good way to build this consensus while also tuning best practices to the practicalities of the Russian market, is to test different aspects of the NDI concept through a series of proof-of-concept pilots. Given the huge geographic, economic, and political variations across Russia, any new system will need to be tested in a cross-section of regions and probably in urban and rural areas.
There are major questions in each of the categories:
Coverage and eligibility. How will different copayment levels and formulas influence patient access? What exceptions or limits should be established to guarantee basic fairness and equity for the socially disadvantaged? What is the tradeoff between short-term drug reimbursement costs and potential longer-term healthcare costs?
Structure and funding. What is the likely budget impact of a nationwide universal NDI? What are the associated resourcing and service requirements? For example, what managerial and administrative personnel will be needed to run the system? How willing are employers to contribute to funding the NDI?
Controls and incentives. What are the barriers and enablers to widespread adoption by pharmacists and clinicians? What is the best payment system to implement at polyclinics and pharmacies to ensure transparency, agility, ease of implementation, scalability, and inter-operability? What technology should be adopted?
Of course, the real test will be whether introducing a new NDI scheme actually improves clinical outcomes and, if so, at what overall cost. Achieving significant improvements in clinical outcomes over the course of a short pilot will be difficult. However, picking the right clinical indicators and metrics could help demonstrate the impact of early drug interventions. For example, a pilot could measure the impact on managing the blood glucose levels of patients with type 2 diabetes. Even over the period of a few months, active glucose management through medication can quickly reduce blood-sugar levels, thereby reducing the patient's risk of long-term complications such as heart disease, kidney failure, and eye problems. Patients and clinicians could easily monitor blood-sugar levels through devices such as electronic meters to capture daily glucose levels. This could ultimately generate the evidence needed to prove the impact of short-term drug interventions.
An Evolutionary Process
Testing aspects of a new NDI model and building a consensus for change is merely the first step toward building a best-practice drug-insurance model (see figure 7). Prioritizing the usage of drugs that improve outcomes and increasing access to medicine are crucial in the beginning, as are ramping up federal funding, developing an integrated model to administer expanded ambulatory coverage, and improving operational and tracking controls.
The next stage of development will require Russia to make the system sustainable. At this point, coverage should be extended to include secondary disease priorities and the increased use of cost-effective, innovative medicines. A tiered patient copayment system should be further developed and exemptions applied based on income, clinical, and social criteria. As has occurred in other markets, pharmacies can take a greater role, help identify high-risk patients, communicate with polyclinics, and monitor patient compliance. At the same time, as health infrastructure continues to develop, physician training should be reinforced and regional infrastructure and performance-management capabilities supported. In short, the challenge at this stage will be to align Russia's overall system incentives to focus on health outcomes.
In the end, Russia can move toward a best-practice stage in which citizens have comprehensive coverage and access to innovative medicine. To do so it will need to ensure that private insurance is well-regulated and well-developed to cover any gaps and complement the system. Additionally, medicine-funding flows will need to be clearly defined and transparent, with equalization mechanisms in place to correct regional inequalities. And, of course, industrial policy and standards will have to reach E.U. levels.
An advanced NDI model for Russia is no pipe dream—it's not even a luxury. It's only a question of setting the right goals and finding the social commitment and tenacity to meet them.
1Growth rates refer to GDP growth in constant rubles.
2Pensioners with annual income greater than €100,000 must pay 60 percent of the cost of medicine, up to a monthly cap of €60. Retirees receiving the minimum pension and long-term unemployed who no longer receive subsidies, are exempt from copayments.


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João Carreira, Henrique Madeira, João Gabriel Silva, "Xception: A Technique for the Experimental Evaluation of Dependability in Modern Computers," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 125-136, February, 1998.
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Abstract—An important step in the development of dependable systems is the validation of their fault tolerance properties. Fault injection has been widely used for this purpose, however with the rapid increase in processor complexity, traditional techniques are also increasingly more difficult to apply. This paper presents a new software implemented fault injection and monitoring environment, called Xception, which is targeted for the modern and complex processors. Xception uses the advanced debugging and performance monitoring features existing in most of the modern processors to inject quite realistic faults by software, and to monitor the activation of the faults and their impact on the target system behavior in detail. Faults are injected with minimum interference with the target application. The target application is not modified, no software traps are inserted, and it is not necessary to execute the target application in special trace mode (the application is executed at full speed). Xception provides a comprehensive set of fault triggers, including spatial and temporal fault triggers, and triggers related to the manipulation of data in memory. Faults injected by Xception can affect any process running on the target system (including the kernel), and it is possible to inject faults in applications for which the source code is not available. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate the accuracy and potential of Xception in the evaluation of the dependability properties of the complex computer systems available nowadays.
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A veteran industry writer recently told me that he's thinking of penning an essay comparing Lee Daniels to Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Food for thought... I'm looking forward to reading that piece.
Lee Daniels' The Paperboy, which screened at the Cannes Film Festival 2 months ago - its world premiere - will be released by Millennium Entertainment in USA theaters on October 5.
As you may recall, the film sharply divided critics after its debut screening at Cannes. But of course - has he ever made a film (whether directed himself or produced) that didn't sharply divide audiences/critics? Monster's Ball, Shadowboxer, The Woodsman (although not as much as the others), Precious, and now this.
I'm actually looking forward to checking it out myself, if only to see what all the hoopla is about.
The rundown recap...
First, there was this comment which apparently shocked some people when Lee Daniels said it at the post-screening press conference.
Zac Efron is said to spend a significant part of the film in his underwear, and as Movieline notes...
... at one point dancing in the rain in his briefs with a very platinum and seductive Nicole Kidman. Never one to mince words, Lee Daniels set the record straight when asked about Zac Efron being "eroticized" in the new film: "He's good looking, the camera can't help but love him... And I'm a gay man - you know!"
That made me laugh actually. He's pretty much saying, yeah, Efron is "eroticized," no different than say Michael Bay, who's straight, eroticizing just about every young female character in most of his movies. What's good for the goose...
And then the reviews came flying in...
From The Hollywood Reporter:
Instead of getting all prestigious after the success of Precious, Lee Daniels has gone even more down and dirty with The Paperboy, a tasty wallow in sordid goings-on down South in 1969. Basking in a funky, disreputable feel despite its prestigious source material and classy cast, the film has been crafted to resemble a grungy exploitation melodrama made in the period it depicts, which might mystify the uninitiated but gives the film an appealingly rough and rasty texture. There is no release date set yet, but Millennium would probably be well advised to jump straight into wide release rather than go the specialized route, as many upscale urban types will likely look down their noses at the trashy milieu and behavior.
From The Playlist, who weren't as kind, calling it a disatrous flop:
The classic question of bad movies is "Who wrote this shit?" But we know the answer to that, usually, up in the credits in bold shameless type. What "The Paperboy" demonstrates all too well is that the better question to ask of a bad movie is "Who read this shit and thought any good could come of it, whether stars or crew or producers or distributors?" "Precious" had its admirers and detractors and some who were split down the middle; I thought it was a well-acted, overdone bit of kitchen-sink drama that really blew the lid off the social crises of the Reagan era. "The Paperboy," though, is something else entirely -- a lurid, florid, humid, flaccid and insipid waste of time and money for the audience and for everyone who made it.
From The Guardian - they loved it:
A heady, humid swamp fever rises from Lee Daniels's violent and black-comic Florida noir The Paperboy, based on the thriller by Pete Dexter: a lazy, funny tone co-exists with menace, and Nicole Kidman gives her best performance since To Die For. Race, sex, journalism, publishing and 60s America are all part of the mix – The Help was never like this – and Daniels keeps it bubbling. This gripping, scary and queasily funny picture nurtures a dark threat which lurks like one of its gators just below the surface.
From The Telegraph:
The Paperboy is a transcendentally awful romance-stroke-crime drama set in the sweltering Florida boondocks of 1969. It is based on an acclaimed novel by Pete Dexter, which has been utterly mangled in the adaptation.
And from Variety:
Racial prejudice, journalistic ethics and a half-naked Zac Efron are among the pressing matters on the mind of "The Paperboy." A very special delivery indeed, director Lee Daniels' follow-up to "Precious" is a risibly overheated, not unenjoyable slab of late-'60s Southern pulp trash, marked by a sticky, sweaty atmosphere of delirium and sexual frustration that only partly excuses the woozy ineptitude of the filmmaking. With Nicole Kidman, Matthew McConaughey and John Cusack wading through a murky swamp of a story, this patchy potboiler should generate some theatrical curiosity but will look more at home on checkout stands.
There are many more, but you get the picture. It looks like love or hate, just as you'd expect with any Lee Daniels film.
Several of the reviews cringed at the crassness of it all, especially a scene in which Nicole Kidman's character is said to urinate on a wound Efron's character got from a jellyfish sting, in an attempt to heal it.
Too bad S&A wasn't repped at the festival this year. I'd have loved to read MsWOO's thoughts on this.
Anyway... the film is now with distribution in a number of international territories, so some of us we'll all get a chance to see it sooner than later.
In the meantime, here's your first good look at the madness within:
BluTopaz | August 2, 2012 10:27 AM
I LOVED Nicole Kidman in To Die For, so if this really is her best role since I'm really looking forward to this. I'm almost tempted to read the novel first, just to see if the negative reviews stating the film "mangles the adaptation" have any merit.
Laura | August 2, 2012 9:38 AM
What's the matter? Lee Daniels had the "audacity" to paint the white characters with the same brush stroke as he did the Black character in his movies. Did it burst their (white) bubbles that the Black characters were a creation of a man's fertile imagination, not some sociology/ethnography tract? What's the matter, did he have the "audacity" to erotize Zac Efrom (a Disney Channel staple rumored to be gay)? Daniels wasn't suppose to do that because Lee is Black, a male, and an out gay and worse and out Black Gay Male. In other words all the Black "pafology" he's been praised for, he flip the script and use that same pafology trope with white lead characters. I am familiar with Fassbinder's work and I can understand the Fassbinder comparison with Daniels. Hey that's a helluva comparison. ***I am not a particular fan of Daniel's work (I'm a Helen Mirren and Macy Gray fan but could not get through Shadowboxer). But the fact that he has prompted these critics to tell on themselves peaks my interest to see The Paperboy --Just a little. (I'll wait for it to come on VOD)
Violet | August 2, 2012 4:35 AM
Wow this film looks like a hot mess, I can't wait!
the black police | August 2, 2012 3:30 AM
It feels like a black movie.
Tamara | August 1, 2012 8:13 PM
a hot sweaty pulpy mess of down home bayou glades southron' slitherous infestation of hormones both new and full grown frustrated lust, revenge and moral shades of gray with a slight tinge of bourbon and rum! Chile... :-) *to rent to own*
Zenzile | August 1, 2012 4:03 PM
will definitely go check this out...the trailer puts me in the mind of the Sean Connery/Lawrence Fishburne movie set in the FL glades...Just Cause


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The sharply dressed Zoot Woman is a three-man pop group that owes as much to Hall & Oates as Pet Shop Boys. Stuart Price (bass) met brothers Johnny (guitar, vocals) and Adam Blake (keyboards) while at school in Reading, England. Though the group's basic setup is much like a rock band, electronics play a significant role in their sound. They began recording during the late '90s but didn't make their full-length debut until 2001; signed to Wall of Sound, Living in a Magazine came first, while a self-titled -- and more organic -- follow-up came in 2004. They've released several singles, most of which have featured club-oriented remixes from the likes of Todd Edwards, Le Knight Club, and Paper Faces. While the group has gained a significant amount of notoriety across Europe, Price's DJ, production, and remix work as Les Rhythmes Digitales and Jacques Lu Cont (including time spent with Madonna, No Doubt, Cornershop, and Goldfrapp) might be known to more people overall. ~ Andy KellmanPortions of Content Provided by Rovi Corporation.
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Cold and flu season is here and packing a mean punch.
Emergency rooms have been very busy over the holidays, treating patients with a variety of respiratory illnesses. Martha Jefferson Hospital says cold, flu, strep and even cases of pneumonia have been on the rise these last few weeks.
"I don't necessarily think it's worse this time, it's just we're seeing it a lot sooner," said Nicole Dickinson, a nurse at Martha Jefferson Hospital.
One possible reason for the increase is people not taking care of themselves over the holidays. But the New Year could be the perfect time to make sure your health is in order.
Flu season is proving to be a busy one for staff at Martha Jefferson's Proffit Road emergency department, working around the clock to treat viral and bacterial illnesses.
"I would definitely say we've seen an increase in the number of patients over the last two weeks, especially a lot of out-of-towners who have gotten sick since they've been here," Dickinson said.
Strep, pneumonia and the flu have all made the list for recent trips to the emergency room. Data from the Virginia Department of Health shows during those holiday weeks, flu activity jumped from local to widespread, and did so much earlier than last season.
"I think your immune system is definitely compromised when you're traveling because you're not taking care of yourself as well as you would be if you were at home; eating holiday food, engorging in alcohol," Dickinson said.
Experts say staying hydrated and drinking fluids without caffeine or alcohol is key, and that getting vitamin C is helpful too. And of course, Dickinson says, "For yourself, the best thing you can do is wash your hands."
Come what may this season, staff at Martha Jefferson Hospital is ready.
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Posted: 6:00 pm Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Dolphins host free agent OLB Rashad Jeanty
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With 2009 starters Joey Porter and Akin Ayodele likely playing elsewhere next season and Jason Taylor's future uncertain, the Dolphins have some work to do to fill out their linebacking corps. They took a step in that direction Thursday when they hosted free agent Rashad Jeanty for a visit at their Davie training facility.
Jeanty, 26, who played the last four seasons with Cincinnati, was born in Miami and played at Carol City High School and the University of Central Florida. Failing to catch on with an NFL team, he spent his first three pro seasons with Edmonton of the CFL before signing a two-year deal with Cincinnati in 2006.
Jeanty started 32 games with the Bengals over the past four seasons including 15 in 2008, when he finished second on the team in tackles with 96.
Last year he lost his starting job during training camp to Ray Maualuga but responded by becoming a mentor to the former USC star and led the Bengals' special teams in tackles. When Maualuga broke his leg in the next-to-last game of the season, he stepped in and started the season finale and the playoff game, both against the New York Jets. He finished the regular season with 20 tackles.
He broke his leg on the first play of the playoff game, suffering almost an identical injury to that sustained by Maualuga.
Jeanty has decent size at 6-foot-2 and 247 pounds.
Jeanty played left outside linebacker for Cincinnati. That's similar to the spot vacated by the departure of Porter; Cameron Wake is expected to have the inside track to start there next year. While it has been speculated Miami will use a high draft pick at the other outside spot, as of now Charlie Anderson and Quentin Moses are the top candidates.
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You can feel the excitement in Bozeman this weekend surrounding tomorrow's Bobcat football game.
It's homecoming, a weekend where dedicated fans return to their university from across the country.
It was a sea of blue and gold at the intersection of Main and Wilson Friday evening for the pep rally getting people pumped for Saturday's homecoming game against Northern Arizona.
Many dedicated Cats fans said being a fan means more than just putting on a Bobcats' shirt.
"Dedication, determination, a lot of heart and just be willing to go out there every Saturday and cheer them on," said Lisa Fabain, MSU alumna.
"Just watching them," said Marika Schultz. "It is a lot of fun. Once you get engaged it's fun. You just can't stop watching."
"I think a Bobcat fan is the experience," said Tom Heck, MSU Alumnus. "Going through school, going to basketball games, football games whether we win or lose just the fun, the excitement."
And excited they were Friday evening. Many people were posing for a picture with Champ and dancing.
Fabain and Heck said they even took the spirit of the Bobcats across the country.
"I took the Bobcat spirit all the way down to North Carolina," said Fabain. "We used to watch Cat Griz in a little place in North Carolina."
"I made the trip to Grand Forks last weekend to watch the Bobcats play because it was close in my area," said Heck.
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Look Out Phil Taylor, Mike Tyson Is Damn Good At Throwing Darts Blindfolded.
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What a beauty… one of my favorites of all time.
Lucky for that chick he wasn't drunk, otherwise he would have hit her bull's eye with his big black dart and she would have loved it
No one was expecting that. Among one of his other talents:intimidating the s*** out of fighters.
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