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The Class (Entre les murs, 2008)
Director: Laurent Cantet
By Marilyn Ferdinand
Laurent Cantet doesn't make a lot of films, but when he does, everyone should sit up and take notice. The only one of his four feature films I saw before The Class was Time Out (L'Emploi du temps, 2001). Loosely based on The Adversary (L'Adversaire), the gripping, true-crime book about Jean-Claude Romand, this absolutely brilliant film paints a mournful picture of a confused white-collar worker who lies and runs financial cons rather than admit to his family the shameful truth that he was fired. The Class, the first French film in 21 years to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, is an equally enthralling film that deals in many ways with the same themes as Time Out. François Matin (François Bégaudeau, author of the book on which the film is based) is a middle-school French teacher who lies to himself and others about what kind of system he is part of to keep the house of cards that is an inner-city school from crashing down.
The film begins at the start of the school year with the school staff introducing themselves to each other by name, subject taught, and years of service at the school. One of the more experienced teachers goes over a new teacher's class list, making comments like "Nice … Nice … Not nice … Nice" and so forth. From the very beginning, newcomers to the school—including us—are indoctrinated to label students and accept teachers' perceptions. The rest of the film will be spent largely in François' classroom, where his attempts to motivate and discipline his classroom will both succeed promisingly and fail miserably.
On the first day of class, François totals up how many minutes of the one-hour class are wasted—five minutes standing in line to get into the class, five minutes to sit down and pull out class materials, five minutes to settle down—and tells the class if they can't get down to business quickly, they will be far behind other middle schools in Paris. Esméralda (Esméralda Ouertani) says the schools lie—classes aren't really an hour long. François admits she's right, that the classes are 55 minutes long. This is only one of the challenges, both large and petty, François will have to negotiate.
François' school has a diverse student body, with students from former French colonies, such as Mali, Morocco, and St. Barts, mixing with other immigrant and white French students. World Cup loyalties have students participating in a classroom debate argue heatedly about their respective countries' teams. A goth student named Arthur (Arthur Fogel) defends his look as others jeer, and François challenges his statement of individuality by saying that millions dress the same way as Arthur does.
François is not so sanguine about being called on his hair-splitting, however. During a staff meeting, the two student representatives giggle and talk without apparently listening to the comments of staff on the grades and recommendations for each student. They weren't nearly as unattentive as the adults imagined, however; Esméralda has informed Souleymane (Franck Keïta), a chronically unprepared Malian jokester that François called him "limited." François, angered at having Souleymane learn what he said, tells the girls that they behaved like skanks in the meeting. François tries to parse the difference between "being skanks" and "behaving like skanks" to an outraged class whose b.s. meter is in the red zone. Souleymane rises to leave class, hurt by François' remark and angered at how unreasonable he is being with the girls. François tells him he can't just leave class and tries to stop him; in the process, Souleymane's backpack strikes Esméralda's friend Khoumba (Rachel Régulier) and opens up a cut above her eye. François feels he has no choice but to hold an administrative hearing that 12 times out of 12 has resulted in the expulsion of a student, even though Souleymane's friends say his father will send him back to Mali.
Souleymane's far from the only student on a bubble—Chinese student Wei, a good student who predictably excels in math and science, may be deported along with his undocumented mother. Teachers are prepared to testify at her deportation hearing, but the same courtesy is not extended to Souleymane in his "deportation" hearing—as one teacher puts it, Souleymane's lack of preparedness in class means, "he's already left us."
Teaching is not perceived to be an easy job. Sometimes teachers unlock the doors of interest in relatively indifferent students, but the system is set up not only to teach but to socialize. Multicultural student bodies complicate the development of an orderly society. François isn't as hidebound as some of his more hardline colleagues, but when push literally comes to shove, François finds that his own cultural indoctrination goes deeper than he thought. He won't abide insolence, but he fails to see how his own approach often fails to reach students. He is bewildered when Khoumba refuses to read aloud at his request, believing he has the right to make her do as he says, and at the letter she leaves in his locker that reveals her feelings that he is out to get her. Another student sits quietly during the whole film, looking sad and lost. She talks to François near the end of the term and says she hasn't understood anything all year. He replies that her grades are fine, but she insists in desperation that she has learned nothing at all. What is it that she wants to learn, needs to learn? François and the school system he upholds have no idea.
This film, shot in handheld DV, is like a documentary on the life of this school. We never leave the school grounds. According to Cantet, "All the adolescents in the film were students at Françoise Dolto Junior High in Paris' 20th arrondissement; all the teachers teach there. With the exception of Souleymane's mother, whose role is the most fabricated, the parents in the film are those of the students in real life." Yes, this is how a public school in Paris operates, but it is hard to say that it works all that well. The reasons for that aren't always clear.
I was part of an interesting discussion on a feminist blog that called for the dismantlement of the school system. This is going to be a bit shocking to people not used to the language of radical feminism, so be forewarned:
Teaching—at least from the "actively benign" echelon on up—is about enlightenment. Schools are about education, i.e. appeasing the state through indoctrination with a male-generated, patriarchal canon. A teacher who so strongly identifies with her profession that she cannot or will not grasp the underlying patriarchal structure of the institution to which she has devoted herself may well be offended when I say "School? It's gotta go!"; this is completely understandable and, of course, regrettable. Still. School? It's gotta go.
I don't call her a bad teacher. I don't suggest that she isn't making a difference in kids' lives. I'm not even saying she isn't managing to squeeze a little actual enlightenment in through the chinks. I aver only that, because the interests of the megatheocorporatocracy—which .. is the American school system's governing body—are not served by an enlightened citizenry, there will be no enlightened citizenry.
I actually liked learning and still do. Although I'm not in favor of abolishing the classroom, school gave me some problems. Teacher's pets, grades, competition, and most of all, learning the way the teachers insisted I learn—all these attributes of schooling created a lot of tension in me, a lot of rebellion, a sense that they were feeding me something (though I think it was a lot more than patriarchy) I didn't think I was there to learn. I totally related to Souleymane's delight when François posted his photo-laden self-portrait that used only captions as an example to the rest of the class—not the traditional essays language teachers always seem to love—and then his disappointment at being called "limited." These moments may have been missed by François, but they certainly didn't go unnoticed by me or many other people in the audience.
This film title's literal translation is "between the walls." According to Cantet, the title was changed for American distribution because "distributors were initially afraid of the image of prison that it could give to the film." Interestingly, the feminist blog called schools "concentration camps," and the writer was taken to task over that characterization. I wonder what the distributors' excuse was? l
26th/02/2009 to 11:56 ammegatheocorporatocracy
What a great word. Gotta love radicals of any stripe.
But you're right: it's not just the patriarchy that our schools teach, it's indoctrination about our way of life, that benefits the few at the top at the expense of the many. And although I would disagree with the writer you quoted that the aim of teaching is enlightenment — the aim of teaching is whatever the designers of curriculae being taught design it to be — I think the distinction between enlightenment and education is right on. The people who actually run the country want folks educated with whatever will make them efficient factory fodder, or middle-management fodder, or designers of product, or writers of computer code.
An "enlightened" populace — i.e., one that is on to them — is definitely not desired.
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26th/02/2009 to 12:22 pmThanks, Rick. Working where I do, I see the priorities a little before others do. About a year ago, the big thing was science/math/technology. I was getting books and videos comparing our country's kids with those in India and China and finding that our kids want to be (shock!) graphic designers instead of engineers! We need to change that–NOW! The Gates Foundation is all about that emphasis. I refused to get on the bandwagon with my editorial choices. I believe in a balanced education for all, and if kids want to go the votech route, they can begin a specialized track in middle school that will help them emphasize the areas they need.
26th/02/2009 to 12:24 pmBTW, I'm going to start coverage of CIMM Fest, a unique confluence of film and music Goatdog is connected with that begins March 5. François Bégaudeau will be attending, and I hope to get an interview with him.
2nd/03/2009 to 11:10 amA very thought-provoking review, Marilyn, and one that makes me think I'm more conservative than the average person when it comes to education. Though I'm no expert on the matter, I did spend three years teaching in an inner-city school that is very, very similar to the one in The Class. Watching it was a bizarrely familiar experience (literally, I know I said so many of those things) and I recommend it to teachers of any level, but especially those who are entering the "city" environment for the first time.
While I do think many schools are in the business of teaching social hierarchy and selected histories, I still think there is something to be said about what Francois was trying to do (and what I was trying to do) with these marginalized students – prepare them for life outside the walls by teaching them in the "ways of the world". Call that patriarchy or mega… if you want to – but I still believe that structure, etiquette and responsibility are vital components of our school systems. Most of the students I taught had either one or neither parent at home (and most didn't speak English), so it was basically on our shoulders to "guide" them into society. There are many roles they can play in the future, and while votech is a fine option, sometimes I wonder if that isn't implicitly enabling the "limited" mindset that's already inherent in the school systems of so many cities.
I'm become lost in my own point here, but I guess I'm trying to say that there are no easy answers to the situation, but like Francois, I stubbornly think that some "order" should part of any pedagogy. -
2nd/03/2009 to 11:19 amDaniel – I take your point, and I'm certainly for decorum – but more as a matter of respect than of crowd control, so to speak.
I guess I have a problem with socialization because of what is being communicated – particularly hierarchy, which is a 100% patriarchal construct to me.
As for votech, you misunderstood my comment. I don't think people should be pushed into it. If it were up to business, liberal arts educations would vanish and we would all be in votech. What I meant was that schools shouldn't be forced to choose science and math over the humanities; those who want to pursue the former (votech or not) should be able to choose it, not have it thrust on them because that's what employers want. -
2nd/03/2009 to 1:29 pmYeah I think I knew what you meant about votech and unnecessarily mentioned when I was trying to make a different point (whatever that was, haha!).
So without defending the patriarchal hierarchy that is often (I don't think always) taught, I'm curious as to how students – in 2009 – can most effectively be enlightened outside of the institution of school? -
2nd/03/2009 to 1:55 pmThe radical feminists think natural learning will take place. I'm not so sure. I'm not against school, I just think we need to have a radical, really radical, overhaul of school priorities and curriculum. No Child Left Behind was a confusing attempt at social engineering by forcing schools to teach to certain standards or lose funding. The Gates agenda was top of the list.
The "hard" subjects need to be taught in a straightforward manner without social engineers like the creationists and abstinence-only crowds interfering. All subjects in the humanities should be considered core subjects. Funding should be independent of political considerations, that is, a constitutional guarantee with a funding formula that does not depend on property taxes, but rather provides an equitable student per capita distribution.


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Welcome back to the British Grand Prix weekend at Silverstone. With private testing being held this morning on a dry track, and seeing the Renaults of Fernando Alonso and Jarno Trulli finishing first and second, French hopes are currently running high.
"Silverstone should suit us very well," said technical director Mike Gascoyne, who has overseen the modifications to the cars for this weekend that have merited the new designation R23B. "The circuit most obviously akin to it is Barcelona and we ran very strongly there earlier this season, coming close to winning the race. Silverstone is a circuit which rewards strong aerodynamic performance, and we have further improvements in that area for this race. I think we can have a very competitive weekend, and take points off our direct competitors."
Michelin is also very buoyant, and believes that, Bridgestone's intensive tests in Spain and Italy notwithstanding, it will still have the upper hand this weekend. As long as the weather stays dry. This could be the key to performance this weekend. The general perception is that Michelin will be dominant if the track stays dry; Bridgestone will come to the fore if it rains. It could go either way, with showers forecast on all three days of the meeting.
Meanwhile, at Williams, the answer to Juan Pablo Montoya's prayers may have taken the form of former Williams, Lotus, Ligier and Arrows engineer Frank Dernie. He recently rejoined Williams from the Lola racing car company, where he worked closely with Montoya during the Colombian's ChampCar years with Chip Ganassi Racing. Having taken a general role initially, Dernie will now move fulltime on to Montoya's car. The Colombian is generally adjudged to have all the speed and aggression that a racing driver needs - witness the overtaking moves he has pulled on Michael Schumacher - but lacks Ralf Schumacher's ability to dial in a good chassis set-up quickly enough at races. With Dernie helping out, that should enable Montoya to close the small but crucial gap his team mate has opened up in recent races,
At McLaren, David Coulthard received a much-needed boost yesterday when he was presented with the Hawthorn Trophy, an annual award made by the late Mike Hawthorn's family in recognition of the highest placed British or Commonwealth driver in the World Championship, a position the Scot filled last season. Hawthorn was Britain's first world champion, with Ferrari, in 1958, but was killed in a road accident in January 1959.
At Ferrari, Michael Schumacher had an impromptu game of cricket in the pit lane this morning, courtesy some Ferrari team sponsors, and the champion was in good form. "I think football is more my game," he joked.
As far as performance is concerned, he seems unconcerned about Williams' recent charge. "We had a very strong test here recently," he reiterated, "so I don't see any reason why we should not be quick here this weekend., We know that our car is very good aerodynamically, and I am confident we can fight to extend our championship lead."


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A teenage girl has no friends, only schoolmates who use her to pay for things. Her father left, but her uncaring mother is busy keeping up the pretense that he's still around. Her hobby is collecting her scabs in a scrapbook. She thought high school would be a chance to reinvent herself and start over, but she's more alone than ever. Is it any wonder she's depressed?
Then she meets a schoolmate called Asparagus because her arms are so skinny. Asparagus is a cutter, slicing open her own wrists or legs to deal with her pain over being bullied terribly.
When a popular singer kills himself, death seems like a way to get the attention they're lacking in life. Everyone's more interested in the singer now than they were when he was alive. Suicide is a choice they can make when so much else is restricted to them by their parents, and they don't have any good times to remember to make the bad times seen less bad.
This reads like an After School Special, and it's likely that many readers will pick it up because of the shocking content. The treatment doesn't appeal simply to prurient interest, though; it attempts to seriously portray a tricky subject, including factual information. The ending isn't too surprising, but the path it takes to get there isn't predictable.
There's also a short backup story, about a teenage prostitute. Her drunken mother wasn't paying attention when her older brother's friends molested her, and she began stealing to feed herself. When she meets a street singer, she realizes that there might be more to life than sleeping with old men for money. I found this story even more interesting than the first, due to its cultural insights, and I wish it would have been longer. The abbreviated ending glosses over a lot of character development and significant events.
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Cook tortellini in boiling water for two minutes, drain and rinse in cold water. Place in lightly greased 9x13 pan. Sprinkle 4 oz. of cheese in pan over tortellini. Place chopped or shredded turkey over tortellini. Melt butter in sauté pan and add mushrooms and onions and sauté until onions are translucent. Deglaze with vermouth. Slowly add gravy to warm. Add remaining cheese and continue to heat and stirring until melted. Add sour cream and pesto and blend well. Pour mixture over the tortellini and cheese. This can be made a day or two day ahead. Remove from fridge ½ hour or so before baking. Bake for 45 minutes at 350°. Serves 10.
I have also grilled, then sliced chicken. I also add sliced, marinated artichoke crowns and roasted red peppers after the cheese and before adding the mixture to the tortelinis.
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Today was packing day at Quilts, Inc., headquarters and it was a busy, busy day! We are so excited for our first Festival of the year, and we love the city of Cincinnati. Last year I went as host of Quilting Arts TV as we taped a number of segments there. I also took some classes with Noriko Endo as well as with Jamie Fingal and Leslie Jenison, and I had so much fun being a student. This time around, though, I'll be a part of the Quilts, Inc., team, and I am excited.
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- LuLu said...
YEA!!!! How exciting... and I completely agree it's those moments that are the BesT!!!!
happy friday and hoping for many eggs in your future,
LuLu - September 11, 2009 at 12:41 PM
- Amy said...
love it!!!! life is good!!!
- September 11, 2009 at 1:28 PM
- Carey said...
Oh, how wonderful! There's nothing sweeter than a little brown egg from your own little hen!
The neighbors down the street from us have about 34 hens (and one rooster, one turkey, two geese, and a gaggle of ducks - all pets). We are the blessed recipients of LOTS of fresh eggs, brought to us by the family's two precious little girls (one in grammar school and one not quite in school yet). They pull their red wagon up to our front door and give us the eggs. It's soooooo cute! The eggs they bring are white, brown, blue, tan, green, aqua - so beautiful altogether. The duck eggs always look scuffed, and we always know when there's goose eggs in the bunch because the carton lids won't close. The goose eggs are comical!
Oh, that is the good stuff of life! - September 11, 2009 at 2:09 PM
- farmhouse wares said...
Carey, that story is adorable. Perhaps I'll pull out the old radio flyer for my daughter's future deliveries.
- September 11, 2009 at 2:37 PM
- C-re said...
I am totally feeling you! I was THRILLED with our first eggs a few weeks back. Now? What the heck am I going to do with all these eggs? Seriously. 10 in 3 days? Oh Lord. Guess I'll be figuring out how to freeze them for baking! LOL!
Congratulations! - September 11, 2009 at 7:03 PM
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C-re, thanks for giving me advance warning on the quantities. i better start lining up neighbors to be ready for some free eggs. We just had our 2nd egg today.
Elise and Rebecca, thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you come back again. - September 12, 2009 at 1:17 PM
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Oh, such a charming story! I would love to have fresh eggs! I'm so excited for your daughter (and you and your husband too;)- such sweet memories in the making!
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Ahhh. Life is good indeed? Did you share it? Or was it hard to eat??
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PUBLISHED: 16 Jul 2012 00:04:21 | UPDATED: 16 Jul 2012 04:20:04PUBLISHED: 16 Jul 2012 PRINT EDITION: 16 Jul 2012Sally Patten
The median Australian managed fund lost about 7 per cent of its value in the year to June, underpinning the parlous state of the local funds management market and raising the likelihood of fund closures or mergers.
It is the worst performance by Australian share funds since the height of the global financial crisis in 2008-09, when the median Australian managed share fund lost 17.3 per cent of its value, and represents the third annual loss in five years, according to investment consultancy Mercer.
The losses come at a difficult time for the funds management industry, which is already facing structural pressures in the form of an aging population, consolidation in the $1.4 trillion superannuation industry and the introduction next year of no-frills default super products, which are expected to focus on reducing costs.
"I think we are in a period of heightened volatility and low sharemarket returns. I think we will see consolidation [among Australian share funds]," said Michael McCorry, acting country head of fund manager BlackRock.
"This is a game of cycles. I think it is a good thing if the sector consolidates," said Murray Brewer, director of T Rowe Price's Australasian business, adding that boutique managers were unlikely to be the force in the future that they are today.
Australia is home to 150 local equity managers, the same as in United Kingdom, despite the Australian market being capitalised at just $1.2 trillion, against $2.7 trillion for the UK bourse.
Preliminary figures from investment consultancy Mercer, to be published today, are expected to show that the median Australian share fund posted a 7 per cent loss in the financial year just ended, in line with the decline in the S&P/ASX 300 index.
This means that after investment management fees of about 0.8 per cent are taken into account, the median manager's losses were even greater than the fall in the benchmark.
The declines are the result of volatility on global sharemarkets, which have been rocked by the prospect of a collapse of the single European currency and the slow pace of economic recovery in the United States.
Another year of poor performance will add to fears that Australian share funds will suffer a ninth consecutive quarter of net outflows in the three months to June and superannuation funds will diversify away from local equities.
Individual investors have made net withdrawals from local share funds in the four years to the end of March, data from Plan for Life shows, making it the worst period since the research house began collecting figures in 1991.
If the current trend continues, share funds are likely to have suffered about $1 billion of net outflows in the three months to June. In the March quarter, investors withdrew $840 million from Australian share funds, against just over $1 billion for each of the previous two quarters. Experts argue that withdrawals are being exacerbated by the aging population. As baby boomers move into retirement, they are reducing their exposure to risky assets such as equities in favour of more defensive investments such as cash and bonds.
Large investors such as super funds are doing nothing to help the plight of equity fund managers. Research shows that over the past seven years the proportion of super fund mandates awarded to Australian equity funds has fallen from 52 per cent of all mandates to just 37 per cent. Analysis of mandates by Rainmaker, a research company, found that over the past seven years, super funds have been increasingly awarding mandates to managers who specialise in so-called alternative assets such as private equity and infrastructure.
The proportion of mandates going the way of such vehicles rose from 23 per cent of all mandates to 36 per cent between December 2004 and December 2011. "The switch to alternatives is on. It will take a while for the number of mandates to translate into massively increased funds under management in alternatives, but it's clear the weighting is going to keep increasing," Rainmaker director of research Alex Dunnin said. However, Mr McCorry rejected suggestions that equities would play a lesser role in investors' portfolios. "I don't think equity markets will be less important in the long term," Mr McCorry said.
Mercer's David Carruthers argued that smaller boutique managers were at greatest risk of closure because they were least able to withstand outflows.
"With a boutique model, outflows can impact profitability. They are less able to deal with that in the short term," Mr Carruthers said.
The poor performance and fund flow figures highlight the uphill battle faced by listed fund managers such as Perpetual and Treasury Group, both of which have warned that profits will be sharply lower in 2011-12. In late June Treasury Group, which takes stakes in boutique fund managers and provides distribution, legal and compliance services, said that profits for the year to June 30 would be $8 million at best, down from $10 billion last time. Perpetual, which is heavily reliant on the local share market through its two main funds, the Australian Share Fund and the Industrial Share Fund, warned earlier this month that it would axe hundreds of jobs, sell a mortgage lending subsidiary and cut director pay in an effort to cut costs.
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Branding Coordinator – Junhyun Bae
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Director of Digital – Jeremy Thum
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Community Relations Assistant – Tina Berto
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Since their Sunday April 20 show sold out at, basically, light speed, Robert Plant and Allison Krauss will play a second gig Saturday night, April 19, at The Palace. T. Bone Burnett, producer of their duet, Raising Sand, which has been lauded by everyone, including our music desk. Tickets are are $67, $57 and $47 (plus fees) go on sale at noon this Friday, Feb. 8 at the Palace Theatre box office, all Ticketmaster outlets, by phone at 502-361-3100 or online at www.ticketmaster.com.
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CMS Releases Final Rules for 2012
This week the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued final rules for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System for 2012. Both of these rules include important, and concerning, program changes for the pulmonary, critical care and sleep community.
2012 Conversion Factor – The rule finalizes the conversion factor for 2012 at $24.6712--a 27.4 percent cut from the 2011 conversion factor. The cut was expected and is a result of the flawed Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) factor used to calculate the annual Medicare update. This marks the 11th straight year that the conversion factor has recommended steep cuts Medicare physician payments. Every year, except for 2002, Congress has intervened to prevent the cuts. The physician community is hoping and expecting Congress to forestall the 2012 cuts.
In a press release describing the final rule, CMS Administrator Donald Berwick, MD, expressed his concern with the cut and called on Congress to work with the Administration to develop a permanent fix to the SGR formula.
Pulmonary Rehabilitation – The ATS is concerned and disappointed that CMS finalized a proposal to cut Medicare reimbursement for pulmonary rehabilitation (G0424) from $62 in 2011 to $37 in 2012. CMS justifies the cut on data collected from hospital cost reports for pulmonary rehabilitation. The ATS and sister societies submitted comments and met with CMS staff to explain why hospital cost reporting data was flawed and would lead to inappropriate reimbursement rates. We are disappointed that CMS chose to dismiss our concerns and recommendation.
The ATS will continue to work with CMS and sister societies to restore payment rates for pulmonary rehabilitation.
New CPT codes for Pulmonary Function Tests – The final rule includes a new family of codes for pulmonary function tests.
The ATS will provide further details on both the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System rule in the December issue of the ATS Coding and Billing Quarterly. For those interested in viewing the final rules, the Medicare physician fee schedule rule can be found at:
The Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System rule--which covers outpatient payment for pulmonary rehabilitation (G0424)--can be found at:
Congress Begins Moving "Minibus" 2012 Spending Bills
This week, Congress began moving FY2012 spending bills, following Senate passage of a "minibus" package consisting of the Agriculture, Transportation and Housing and Commerce-Justice Fy2012 appropriations bills. The measure passed by a vote of 60- 39. The House leadership, which had earlier voiced opposition to moving packages of appropriations bills in favor of an omnibus including all of the bills, has now indicated that it will schedule votes on minibus bills passed by the Senate.
The next minibus slated for Senate floor votes includes the FY2012 Energy and Water, Financial Services and Foreign Operations bills, which include funding for USAID's tuberculosis program. The bill provides $225 million for the TB program, the same as last year. Not yet up for Senate action is the Labor-Health and Human Services and Education bill (Labor-HHS-ED), which funds NIH and CDC, known as one of the most contentious spending bills. NIH funding is one of the many areas of difference between the House and Senate Labor-HHS bills, with the Senate bill proposing a 0.6 percent cut to FY2012 NIH funding and the House bill proposing a 3.3 percent funding increase for NIH.
The other curious difference between these two bills is that the Senate Labor-HHS-ED bill has been passed through the Appropriations Committee,but the House bill has not. Instead, House Labor-HHS-ED Appropriations subcommittee Chairman, Rep. Rehberg (R-MT), released the current draft House Labor-HHS-ED bill to the public. With the absence of standard committee approval, it is unclear what the specific process for action will be on the Labor-HHS-ED bill, though it appears that the House leadership is allowing the draft bill, at least for now, to serve as the House's negotiation point with the Senate on labor, health research and services and education program funding.
Although Congress has started moving the spending bills, it does not appear likely that they will be able to pass all 12 bills by the deadline of November 18, when the current temporary resolution funding government programs runs out, despite the minibus approach. It is expected that Congress will have to pass another temporary measure to fund the government at least through December.
Senate Rejects Amendment to Delay Primatene Mist CFC Phase Out
In a related action, during consideration of the "mini-bus" package, the Senate rejected by 54-44 (along party lines) an amendment offered by Sen. DeMint (R-SC) that would prevent FDA from removing Primatene Mist CFC from the market on January 1, 2012.
As part of an international effort to remove all non-essential use of ozone-depleting substances from the market, the FDA and the EPA agreed to the impending removal of Primatene Mist CFC in the United States. Primatene Mist uses chloroflourocarbons (CFC) as a propellant. CFCs are known ozone-depleting substances and have contributed to the hole in the ozone layer.
In his comments regarding the amendment, Sen. DeMint stated that he offered the amendment to preserve low-cost, over-the-counter options for patients to treat their asthma. According to the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program guidelines for the treatment of asthma, epinephrine (Primatene Mist) is not recommended for the treatment of asthma because of the potential for excessive cardiac stimulation.
The ATS urged the Senate to oppose the DeMint amendment and allow Primatene Mist CFC to be removed from the market in 2012.
President Obama Issues Executive Order on Drug Shortages
Also this week, President Obama issued an executive order aimed at addressing drug shortages in the United States. Many drugs, including medications used to treat respiratory diseases, critical illnesses and sleep disorders are or have been in short supply across the country over the past few years. Causes for the shortages include consolidation in the drug industry and shortages of raw materials to produce drugs.
ATS members have reported that many drugs commonly used for treatment of respiratory diseases, critical illnesses and sleep disorders, particularly those used in intensive care units, have been in severe shortage. These include the following:
- the sedative Propofol
- furosemide, used to treat excessive swelling and fluid retention
- fentanyl, used as a pain reliever and anesthetic
- the sedative lorazepam
- norepinephrine, a hormone and neurotransmittor
In addition to the medications listed above, many second-line drugs used to drug resistant tuberculosis, such as kanamycin, amikacin and capreomycin, have been in severe shortage across the country and when they are available, come with an exorbitant cost, to the extent that treatment costs for multi-drug resistant TB range from $100,000 to $300,000. To address the TB drug shortages and high costs, the ATS worked with the U.S. Senate to secure a directive in the FY2012 health spending bill, noting the national drug shortages of second-line drugs and other barriers to optimal treatment and urging the Federal TB Task Force to work with the FDA and other partners to alleviate drug shortages. Though the bill has not yet been passed, the probability of enactment is reasonably good.
The President's executive order takes the following actions:
- Requires drug manufacturers to provide more advance notice of manufacturing discontinuances that could lead to shortages;
- Authorizes expedited FDA reviews of new drug suppliers and manufacturing changes; and
Facilitates DOJ investigations of price gouging by drug manufacturers and suppliers.
In addition, the FDA announced that it would double the number staff in its drug-shortage program and add staff to the Office of Compliance.
The executive order is not expected to have a mjor effect on ameliorating the current shortages because the President does not have the authority to require the pharmaceutical industry to increase the manufacture of certain drugs or create larger markets for drugs. That authority would require congressional action, which would be difficult if not impossible to initiate with the Congress so divided and focused on deficit reduction.
ATS Supports FAA Ban on E-Cigarettes
The ATS submitted comments to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in support of a proposed rule that would ban the use of e-cigarettes on commercial flights. While the FAA had previously banned tobacco use on air travel, the agency does not have a regulatory policy on e-cigarettes. The ATS noted that while there is little data on the health effects of e-cigarettes, they are still a tobacco product and should be treated similar to other tobacco products under FAA rules.
The Washington Letter is written by the American Thoracic Society government relations office and emailed to all ATS members living in the United States. The letter keeps clinicians, scientists, and patients abreast of legislative, judicial, and regulatory issues in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. Each week's edition is archived on the ATS Web site, www.thoracic.org. If you have any questions or one more information about becoming involved in advocacy, please contact the ATS Washington office at 202-296-9770.


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The President's proposed overall 2006 budget for the National Aeronautics and Space Agency will grow slightly in 2006 as NASA concentrates on its new missions of exploration and scientific discovery. But budgets for at least three of the agency's research centers - including the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland - will shrink, as ideastream's Karen Schaefer reports.
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Community Engaged Scholarship
Community Engaged Scholarship leverages the resources of the university to address critical societal issues in partnership with community, by encouraging engaged research, engaged teaching, and engaged service, ultimately striving to democratize knowledge creation for the public good.Engaged scholarship does not replace previous forms of scholarship. Rather, faculty engagement serves to broaden and to deepen the possibilities for community and civic engagement across disciplines—and beyond the university.
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