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Delroy Murdoch: Health insurers ought to defend themselves from Obama
November 11. 2013 7:29PM
Beyond the relentless lies, paternalistic arrogance, and show-stopping incompetence that now define ObamaCare, it now sports two new features: an assault on free speech and severe scapegoating of a law-abiding industry.
"White House officials have pressured insurance industry executives to keep quiet amid mounting criticism over Obamacare's rollout," CNN's Drew Griffin and Chris Frates reported Oct. 30. "After insurance officials publicly criticized the implementation, White House staffers contacted insurers to express their displeasure, industry insiders said. Multiple sources declined to speak publicly about the push back because they fear retribution."
While White House press secretary Jay Carney calls this accusation "preposterous and inaccurate," the silence of health insurers amid this controversy is chilling. According to insurance consultant Bob Laszewski, "The White House is exerting massive pressure on the industry, including the trade associations, to keep quiet."
Obama has been anything but taciturn in his latest tactic: vilifying health insurers.
"Before the Affordable Care Act, these bad apple insurers had free rein every single year to limit the care that you received or used minor pre-existing conditions to jack up your premiums or bill you into bankruptcy," Obama bellowed recently. As if prosecuting a product-liability case, Obama decried the evil insurers' "cut-rate plans that don't offer real financial protection in the event of a serious illness or an accident."
Some 4.2 million Americans with canceled medical policies now recognize that Obama lied just last Sept. 26 when he said, "If you already have health care, you don't have to do anything." As outrage grew, Obama unveiled a new lie Monday to conceal at least 23 previous ones. He told supporters: "What we said was you can keep it (your health plan) if it hasn't changed since the law passed."
"No, no, no, no, no," the National Journal's Ron Fournier protested. "That's not what the Obama administration said."
As usual, Obama points his finger everywhere but inward. People are losing plans, Obama claims, because wicked insurers changed and, thus, invalidated them.
But why would insurers suddenly cancel coverage for 4.2 million clients, and counting? Is this the latest innovation in customer service?
"The health insurance companies are required to offer their customers new plans that comply with all of the new federal benefit and regulatory requirements," explains Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute, a health-policy think tank. "It is reckless for the White House to blame the insurance companies simply for complying with this law."
Insurers are obeying ObamaCare's Section 2707: "A health insurance issuer that offers health insurance coverage in the individual or small group market shall ensure that such coverage includes the essential health benefits package required under section 1302(a) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act."
These 10 new treatment categories include hearing aids, pediatric dentistry, eyeglasses for children, drug-addiction services, psychiatric care, and other things that not everyone wants nor needs. And once every plan features these pricey "essentials," Obama's "affordable care" promise craters, too.
Any plan that lacks these goodies and was sold after ObamaCare was signed on March 23, 2010 cannot be grandfathered and, therefore, must be canceled before Jan. 1, 2014. Obama concealed this detail when he said during the Oct. 4, 2012 presidential debate: "If you've got health insurance, it doesn't mean a government takeover. You keep your own insurance."
For those whose coverage pre-dates ObamaCare, federal law now mandates that if such plans have changed ever so slightly (say a $5.00 co-insurance boost) they become ungrandfathered and cannot be renewed after Dec. 31, 2013. This rigid no-change rule is like telling someone to hold his breath and then smacking him when he tries to inhale.
Rather than let Obama slap them around in public, the top 10 health-insurance CEOs should man up, hold a joint press conference, and slam Obama's destructive, self-serving lies. If these executives hang together, it will be tough for America's Thug-in-Chief to hang them separately.
Deroy Murdock is a Fox News contributor, a nationally syndicated columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service, and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.


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By Kurt Helin, ProBasketBallTalk on nbcsports.com
That was a great game.
And Game 7 sets up to be something special.
For three quarters San Antonio's execution was too much for Miami and the Spurs entered the fourth up 10 (75-65) and just 12 minutes away from a title. Tim Duncan had been a force, with countermoves spinning Chris Bosh around and Duncan had 30 points (and he finished with 17 boards on a monster night).
But the fourth quarter belonged to LeBron James — he had 16 points in the quarter, cranked up his defensive pressure, his teammates followed along and they forced overtime thanks to an amazing Ray Allen three pointer with 5 seconds left. Read the full story.

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Cheapest Family Health Insurance That Qualifies Under ObamaCare: $20,000
More in coming days about how we were lied to to get ObamaCare. The lies you already heard about weren't the only ones.
More in coming days about how we were lied to to get ObamaCare. The lies you already heard about weren't the only ones.
Ding.Patterico (89e117) — 2/1/2013 @ 1:01 pm
I'll take the penalty/tax, thanks.daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/1/2013 @ 1:03 pm
You'll get nothing, and pay for it.SarahW (b0e533) — 2/1/2013 @ 1:04 pm
Exactly and sign up when I get seriously ill.daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/1/2013 @ 1:06 pm
The high deductible health policy choice offered by my employer (that still protected against catastrophe and risk of an impossibly big outlay for care) which I got for a pittance in premiums was very satisfactory for many years. Under Obamacare that puppy's no longer an option. Thanks Dems.elissa (0a4492) — 2/1/2013 @ 1:12 pm
"If you like your insurance you can keep it."Patterico (89b580) — 2/1/2013 @ 1:19 pm
"Under Obamacare that puppy's no longer an option."
elissa – A high deductible cat policy won't count toward avoiding the penalty/tax under Obamacare, but I'm unclear whether insurance companies will still be permitted to write them.daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/1/2013 @ 1:22 pm
They might be able to write them, but you'd still pay the penalty/tax.Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 2/1/2013 @ 1:26 pm
That cannot be true, Elissa. If you like your insurance, you can keep it. Obama said so.JD (b63a52) — 2/1/2013 @ 1:28 pm
Yes, we were lied to, and yes, we got Obamacare.
But the lies were irrelevant to passing Obamacare. It isn't as if the public only supported Obamacare because of the lies… as we both know, the public didn't support Obamacare, period. The public didn't believe the claims Obamacare supporters were making (a majority of the public felt Obamacare would result in their having to pay more money for less care).
We got Obamacare because the Democrats in Congress decided that it was something they were going to force down our throats. They knew the numbers didn't work and they didn't care.steve (369bc6) — 2/1/2013 @ 1:28 pm
If the numbers don't work now, just wait until we add 12,000,000 more to the rolls.JD (b63a52) — 2/1/2013 @ 1:31 pm
I'm unclear whether insurance companies will still be permitted to write them.
Me too, but my guess is that they're not going to be allowed to, as Obamacare sets minimum standards that policies have to meet (such as offering 'free' contraceptive coverage) and catastrophic only plans won't meet that standard.steve (369bc6) — 2/1/2013 @ 1:31 pm
"They might be able to write them, but you'd still pay the penalty/tax."
Sammy – I noted that in my comment. My question is whether HHS would prohibit insurers writing policies which allow people to do an end run around Obamacare given the differential between the size of penalty/tax and the anticipated premiums. Early on I heard they were going to prohibit such policies, but I have not heard anything in a couple of years.daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/1/2013 @ 1:35 pm
daley–yeah, I don't know either. I think probably not. The beauty of it was that it wasn't strictly a "we wash our hands of you until it's a catastrophe/hospital" deal. You still filtered all dr's visits, tests and emergency room visits through the plan to get the benefit of any negotiated prices with the provider that were lower than billed amount. They didn't pay uniil the high dedudctible was reached, but you benefitted from the group rates on services.elissa (0a4492) — 2/1/2013 @ 1:35 pm
For anybody wanting an insurance primer, the cost is going up for four reasons:
1 – the minimum level of coverage is going up (as everything including the kitchen sink will have to be covered), driving up the cost (you 'get' more, you pay more).
2 – forcing people with coverage to subsidize the free and below market coverage provided to those without coverage (xx% of your premium pays for 'your' coverage, the balance of your premium dollars pays for someone else to get coverage),
3 – eliminating waiting periods, prior period exclusions, lifetime caps on coverage and risk-based pricing increases the expectation of outlay, resulting in higher premiums, and
4 – medical care just costs more every year. There are very few breakthroughs that lowers the cost of providing care.steve (369bc6) — 2/1/2013 @ 1:38 pm
4 – medical care just costs more every year. There are very few breakthroughs that lowers the cost of providing care.
LASIKJD (448fa8) — 2/1/2013 @ 1:39 pm
Obama bends the health care cost curve down, in his mind, the same place where he splits atoms.daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/1/2013 @ 1:46 pm
That's one, can you name a second?
Also, Lasik isn't usually covered by insurance, so allow me to modify my point to say that there is very little that lowers the cost of what is covered by insurance. And where the cost for a given procedure or drug does go down, it is usually because it was replaced by a more expensive drug or procedure.
Unfortunately, medical care isn't like computers, where we can expect to get a better machine for relatively less money than the year before.steve (369bc6) — 2/1/2013 @ 1:48 pm
The cost of routine care would go down if the market weren't distorted by price-fixing, and this distortion protected by removal of the true consumer from the cost of care.
Prudential planning should be rewarded with tax breaks that employers get now – employers should pay you a wage. You decide how to allocate. Your insurance costs should be fully deductible. HSA's grow tax free with contributions also deductible.
The insurance market is then regulated by the states to make sure it provides what it promises.
The truly indigent or disabled are covered in part or whole by programs that CANNOT dictate other fee arrangements and insurers are also forbidden to collude or prevent negotiation of individual treatment.SarahW (b0e533) — 2/1/2013 @ 1:52 pm
Steve – the costs for many diagnostic and surgical services go WAY down when self-pay when the provider is not forbidden from a cash-schedule or direct negotiation. MRI, ultra-sound, etc. Plain old tort liability and professional standards still apply, so quality is uncompromised.SarahW (b0e533) — 2/1/2013 @ 1:54 pm
"And where the cost for a given procedure or drug does go down, it is usually because it was replaced by a more expensive drug or procedure."
steve – I think the movement of many surgical procedure away from hospital settings to specialized clinics or outpatient facilities has had an impact on costs, but that would have to be confirmed by some of the docs on the board. The Obama Admin. does not particularly support physician owned hospitals or surgery centers based on my understanding.daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/1/2013 @ 1:55 pm
the costs for many diagnostic and surgical services go WAY down when self-pay when the provider is not forbidden from a cash-schedule or direct negotiation. MRI, ultra-sound, etc.
I make a distinction between the cost of the service and the amount you have to pay – defining 'cost' in two different ways, and my referring to 'cost' refers to the cost incurred by the provider in providing that service. Negotiating a price break doesn't result in a lower cost of providing the service, it merely shifts the costs to someone else's pocket. It's the flip side of Obamacare mandating that coverage for X or Y is 'free'… not charging someone for that specific coverage doesn't mean it doesn't cost the provider to provide that service.
The same may apply to the 'cost' of outpatient surgery. While the insurance company may not pay as much, I don't know if the actual cost of providing the service is any less in a different environment. (I think it's being done because the surgeons can have a stake in the facility and thus can make more for themselves).steve (369bc6) — 2/1/2013 @ 2:05 pm
"And where the cost for a given procedure or drug does go down, it is usually because it was replaced by a more expensive drug or procedure."
steve – How about laparoscopic surgery which has become so common for many surgeries over time. While it may involve a higher technology investment than more invasive surgery, how does the shorter recovery time/hospital stay affect overall cost?daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/1/2013 @ 2:06 pm
Based on this report http://ehbs.kff.org/pdf/2012/8345.pdf
the average cost for a family plan with employeer provided coverage is 15,700$ for 2012. If i assume 3% inflation it goes up to 17,1000 for 2015. This is for an employeer plan, I assume that buying a plan for an individual family is more expensive but I have no idea how much. It doesn't really look like this is too far off from what we're currently paying.
"I make a distinction between the cost of the service and the amount you have to pay"
steve – I thought you were trying to make an analogy to a manufacturing type business, that the "cost of goods sold" in the health care industry only moves in one direction due to technology or research advances. What people actually pay, negotiate to pay, or the government pays for the goods and services are separate questions.daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/1/2013 @ 2:12 pm
Time – the employer gets a tax break, and gets to play an employee with that plan and keep him. The self-purchase family plan – NO BREAK AT ALL, except you don't pay the fine.SarahW (b0e533) — 2/1/2013 @ 2:14 pm
Steve, the better way is to remove as much market distortion as possible, preserve liberty and reward private prudence.SarahW (b0e533) — 2/1/2013 @ 2:15 pm
It doesn't really look like this is too far off from what we're currently paying.
Raise your hand if you are paying this much.JD (448fa8) — 2/1/2013 @ 2:17 pm
according to my W2 the cost of my health care package is 11K to my employeer. My monthly is sums up to about 2,500 so i'm at 13,5 total.time123 (066362) — 2/1/2013 @ 2:23 pm
"Nothing we're going to do is going to fundamentally alter or eliminate the possibility of another mass shooting or guarantee that we will bring gun deaths down to a thousand a year from what we're at now," Biden said, according to a Politico report.
I think they are doing the same thing with healthcareNeo (d1c681) — 2/1/2013 @ 2:26 pm
LASIK is different because it is not covered so competition lowers prices. I believe all health are would be like that but for government subsidies.Patterico (399c43) — 2/1/2013 @ 2:29 pm
standard healthcare pricing reflects the fact that many, if not all, non-capitated payors discount their payments, such as only paying 80% of the total charges…
capitiated payors, of course, pay a flat rate, no matter what.
that is why you, if you are going to purchase treatment yourself, can negotiate a lower price. it's also why you will often get a bill from a provider after receiving care, demanding that you pay the difference between what they charged and what they were paid by your insurer.redc1c4 (403dff) — 2/1/2013 @ 2:33 pm
It's good to know that you're content and sanguine about all this, time123, and that you believe you are not negatively affected by ACA as so many of us already know we are. Maybe out there some where you can find a few more pipple who are happy, too, and start a little Omamacare fan club. I don't think you're going to need a very big meeting room, though.elissa (0a4492) — 2/1/2013 @ 2:34 pm
about your EMR's as mandated by Obamacare
yeah, the DEA thinks they are entitled to them without a warrant demonstrating probable cause…redc1c4 (403dff) — 2/1/2013 @ 2:36 pm
The ideal is that the entire population will be attended to under the VA.
It is bound to cut SocSec costs.
My turnip has no blood.mg (31009b) — 2/1/2013 @ 2:50 pm
Redc1c4 its worse than that, really. Medicare not only drives pricing, and distorts insurance payouts, but insurers actually forbid free negotiation or cash-for-service pricing that is better that their contract reimbursement. Moreover 3rd party reimbursements are nororiously shell games with real cost often disconnected from reimbursement.SarahW (b0e533) — 2/1/2013 @ 2:51 pm
Why is it that the more we discover about the PPACA, the more that out-of-pocket, first-party, CASH is the solution to spriraling out-of-control health-insurance (and care) costs?
This is a problem created seventy years ago that is finally bearing bitter fruit.
An extra 7000 out of the family budget? What difference does it make?SarahW (b0e533) — 2/1/2013 @ 2:59 pm
The bullet train of single payer is up and speeding towards the station!Patricia (be0117) — 2/1/2013 @ 3:00 pm
Patterico – exactly why I picked that example.JD (448fa8) — 2/1/2013 @ 3:01 pm
Ditto 10. and 38.Joseph D (ece5cb) — 2/1/2013 @ 3:09 pm
i was keeping it simple for the non-hc readers.redc1c4 (403dff) — 2/1/2013 @ 3:19 pm
SarahW – if it's true that health insurance purchased on the open market isn't tax deductable, it seems like that's something which should be fixed. (I don't know, as I've always gotten insurance through an employer, so I've never had to find out.)aphrael (009f82) — 2/1/2013 @ 3:33 pm
I think our uruk hai is riffing off this;
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/02/conservatives-shocked-discover-healthcare-america-really-expensivenarciso (3fec35) — 2/1/2013 @ 4:11 pm
This is further proof, liberals think mathematics is a theory.Kevin P. (1df29c) — 2/1/2013 @ 4:48 pm
aphrael, you're not getting the point. Obamacare was never meant to make health insurance more affordable.
Obamacare was meant to sabotage the last vestiges of whatever remains of the freemarket that hasn't been killed off by all the other federal health insurance regulations since FDR's new deal.
Obama and the Democrats intended this to fail so that they can get the single-payer system they always wanted.
It wasn't intended to fix anything.
Barney Frank gives away the game. "Saying we'll do nothing until we get single-payer is a sure way never to get it."
Yes, he says the best way to get single-payer is a "strong public option." But that doesn't mean it's the only way, as we are seeing.Steve57 (104863) — 2/1/2013 @ 4:50 pm
steve #15 … one breakthrough that would lower the cost of providing care would be "Loser Pays" …
I don't see our Pres'ent championing "Loser Pays", however … (grin) … he probably sees that as a racist personal attack …Alasdair (126343) — 2/1/2013 @ 4:56 pm
Also see Jacob Hacker, Jan Shakowsky in 2009, and Obama in 2007,narciso (3fec35) — 2/1/2013 @ 4:57 pm
I wished it could have been a Happy Birthday for Andrew Brietbart today.mg (31009b) — 2/1/2013 @ 5:10 pm
#23: I don't know. In addition to the capital costs of that and other device/technique improvements, I figure there's also a chance that the quantity goes up, thus raising the costs.
#25, no to the manufacturing analogy. Yes to saying that lowering the 'cost' you're charged for a particular procedure doesn't mean that the costs of providing that procedure have gone down, only that those costs have been shifted to someone else to pay.
#30 While the consumer cost of Lasik has gone down, I don't believe that's the case with cosmetic surgery, which is also generally not covered by insurance. Nor, at least in my experience, has dental care which is often paid for on an out of pocket basis (the only dentists participating in my plan are ones I wouldn't want to go to).steve (e7e6c7) — 2/1/2013 @ 5:19 pm
SarahW – if it's true that health insurance purchased on the open market isn't tax deductable, it seems like that's something which should be fixed. (I don't know, as I've always gotten insurance through an employer, so I've never had to find out.)
aphrael, the problem is that once you start issuing tax deductions for purchasing health insurance on the open market, you further blow a hole in the alleged "cost containment" of ObamaCare. But, you know, maybe that is just another bump on the road to single payer.JVW (4826a9) — 2/1/2013 @ 5:25 pm
It is kind of ironic that the Health Care reform outlawed true health insurance (#3) in favor of postpaid subsidized health services.
As is usual with the Blue "safety net", responsible people get penalized [um, taxed, and I denounce myself] and the deadbeats get the bennies.
Forward!Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 2/1/2013 @ 5:27 pm
Worst political class in history (and we've had some pretty bad ones), worst President in history.
Simply unbelievable.SPQR (768505) — 2/1/2013 @ 5:30 pm
You still filtered all dr's visits, tests and emergency room visits through the plan to get the benefit of any negotiated prices with the provider that were lower than billed amount. They didn't pay uniil the high dedudctible was reached, but you benefitted from the group rates on services.
And they kept that negotiated rate as low as possible so that your total stayed under their payment threshold.
This would be my ideal plan — people focus on moronic things like whether a plan is 70/30 or 80/20, when the bulk of the savings occurs in the negotiated rate, even if the payments are 0/100 like you describe. And I'm covered if they have to scrape me off the pavement.Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 2/1/2013 @ 5:31 pm
Don't know yet if he's worse than Buchanan. A slide to civil war is pretty much the gold standard for worst.Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 2/1/2013 @ 5:33 pm
steve @50 – Now you have totally lost me with your analysis. Your claim was that you could not think of one advance in drugs or medical technology which reduced costs.
You need to make up your mind what "costs" you are talking about, the cost of providing a good or service or the "cost" to the payor. Stop moving the goal posts.daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/1/2013 @ 5:37 pm
Raise your hand if you are paying this much.
Two 59-year-olds on a gold-plated PPO (with PPO dental and glasses) — $16K. I have to assume that two 40-year-olds with two kids and an HMO ought to be substantially less — I could get an HMO plan TO-DAY for under $10K.Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 2/1/2013 @ 5:38 pm
typo. two 30-year-olds and two kids.Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 2/1/2013 @ 5:39 pm
This is further proof, liberals think mathematics is a theory.
And they think mathematics ends with arithmetic. I do wish one had to divide two numbers in one's head in order to vote.Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 2/1/2013 @ 5:41 pm
I've always addressed the cost of providing the service. Who pays is a political shell game. Sorry if you haven't been able to figure that out.steve (e7e6c7) — 2/1/2013 @ 5:44 pm
"aphrael, the problem is that once you start issuing tax deductions for purchasing health insurance on the open market, you further blow a hole in the alleged "cost containment" of ObamaCare."
JVW – You can deduct premiums for individually purchased health insurance on Schedule A, subject to the 7.5% threshold of income base limit for medical expenses, the same way you can include the employee contribution of to purchasing employer sponsored health insurance. You can also deduct it elsewhere as a self-employed individual.
Nasty complications set in though if you get reimbursements from the insurance plan, which the IRS requires you to offset against the expense.daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/1/2013 @ 5:47 pm
"I've always addressed the cost of providing the service. Who pays is a political shell game. Sorry if you haven't been able to figure that out."
steve – You did exactly the opposite in comment 50 and emphasized it by disagreeing with the manufacturing example, talking about increasing the number of procedures performed from comment #23 and focusing on shifting payments.daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/1/2013 @ 5:51 pm
"I've always addressed the cost of providing the service."
steve – Cost to who, the provider or payor, whoever that may be?daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/1/2013 @ 5:52 pm
Let me try s l o w e r
Medical providers incur a certain cost providing health care. Hospitals have fixed and variable costs, doctors incur costs (including an hourly rate for their time), drug companies have production costs of developing and manufacturing pills and so on. This is what I have been referring to as 'cost'.
My argument, which I think I have been consistent in arguing, is that these costs (1) with few exceptions, don't go down, and (2) most of the argument over health care/insurance/Obamacare is over who has to pay those costs.steve (e7e6c7) — 2/1/2013 @ 6:06 pm
I understand that if I like my doctor, I can keep him. But if I don't like my President, must I keep him ?Elephant Stone (30e04f) — 2/1/2013 @ 6:31 pm
No, you can't, and you have no choice in the matter.narciso (3fec35) — 2/1/2013 @ 6:39 pm
Comment by Elephant Stone (30e04f) — 2/1/2013 @ 6:31 pm
Hereby nominated for post of the week.
I've written about this before.
In 1960 a heart attack was treated by telling the person to stay in bed and rest. By 1970 one stayed in a special "intensive care unit" to be monitored for life-threatening complications such as unstable heart rhythms. By 1980 people were having surgery to treat or prevent heart attacks. By 1990 even more people were having angioplasty. In inflation-adjusted dollars I don't know if an angioplasty in 2013 is cheaper than surgery in 1980 or not. It certainly isn't cheaper than being told to stay home and rest in the 1960's when these fed programs were started.
Likewise kidney failure in 1960 was cheap, one died. Then dialysis came along and kidney failure treatment became expensive. Kidney transplants are cheaper in the long run (last time I heard anyway), but not cheap.
Genital herpes was not considered a common issue in 1970, now Valtrex is advertised as essentially a daily vitamin for all the otherwise healthy, smiling young folk who need to take it forever, and that nasty HIV hadn't been heard of yet, but the cost of meds alone to treat it is in the $10,000+/yr.
A child with leukemia in 1960 died, now most live with treatment that involves a lot.
There are some advances that decrease cost, such as an angioplasty instead of open heart surgery, and laparoscopic gall-bladder surgery instead of an open, but as much of the advance in medicine is being able to treat what was once untreatable, one should expect the cost to increase.
But that is only a small part of the miriad of issues.MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 2/1/2013 @ 7:08 pm
"My argument, which I think I have been consistent in arguing, is that these costs (1) with few exceptions, don't go down"
steve – fine, except that you have not really addressed the specific examples of potentially lower costs offered in this thread, outpatient surgery, laparoscopic surgery and Lasiks.
The price paid by the payors, whoever they are, is a separate issue.daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/1/2013 @ 7:12 pm
MD, there are lots of things that cost less, too.
Get a bleeding ulcer today, and the treatment is generally non-invasive. In 1960, OMG. And many ulcers are solved with antibiotics before they get that far.
Break a femur in 1960 and you might well lose the leg; today you get a titanium replacement. Cost? Depends on what you count, but the cost of not having a leg is pretty high in lost productivity just to start with.
As far as "death" costing little, again the living person may pay lots of taxes every year, which stop soon after death, even assuming that their contributions to society don't count for government beancounters. Not all sick people are senile. Saving the productive is an investment, not a cost.
Then there are steroids, vaccines, statins, this/that/and the other-blockers, and lost of things that keep people active and unsick for years after they would otherwise succumb. Again, this may "cost" but be quite cost-effective.
For every dialysis there's another thing that makes up for it.Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 2/1/2013 @ 7:54 pm
*hostKevin M (bf8ad7) — 2/1/2013 @ 7:55 pm
I will do like most drivers in Texas do.. buy insurance a month before they have to have car registered, show the required proof of liability insruance, then cancel for 11 months, renew the 12th month..Ric Mann (d9c7e5) — 2/1/2013 @ 8:00 pm
Wonder what it costs to become a health insurance company for a month.. sign my family up,check the 1040 box in 2014 for 'covered' and go 'bankrupt' on April 16th? *it is what most insurance companies will do in about 3 years anyway.Ric Mann (d9c7e5) — 2/1/2013 @ 8:09 pm
As far as "death" costing little, again the living person may pay lots of taxes every year, which stop soon after death, even assuming that their contributions to society don't count for government beancounters. Not all sick people are senile. Saving the productive is an investment, not a cost.…
Then there are steroids, vaccines, statins, this/that/and the other-blockers, and lost of things that keep people active and unsick for years after they would otherwise succumb. Again, this may "cost" but be quite cost-effective.
Comment by Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 2/1/2013 @ 7:54 pm
Oh, I agree 100% with you on this. In fact, I generally distrust anything that talks about "cost effectiveness" in medicine (especially when talking about treating or letting die) because I don't think they take such larger considerations into account.
But in this discussion, for example, the focus is only on what it costs for insurance and medical care, not what people and society get in return.
I guess, for example, one can look at health care costs as a percentage of GDP, but no one talks about the total GDP that was made possible by the health care.
What did I say wrong in #71 and #72?Rich Mann (777abd) — 2/1/2013 @ 8:25 pm
This is further proof, liberals think mathematics is a theory.
Comment by Kevin P. (1df29c) — 2/1/2013 @ 4:48 pm
— They believe in unintelligent design.Icy (15c060) — 2/1/2013 @ 8:32 pm
Comment by Rich Mann (777abd) — 2/1/2013 @ 8:25 pm
If you are wondering why I did not make any reference to your posts, please do not assume anything was meant by it. There are at least 2 reasons that have nothing to do with your posts:
1) I think slow and type slower. I know I started on #73 before you posted #72, and maybe before #71 as well.
2) I was responding to something I had already posted on.
Ric, you have to file, with your taxes, a statement on which months you had insurance3 and pay a pro-rated penalty for the months you didn't. You can lie, of course, but the IRS may catch you at it.Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 2/1/2013 @ 8:43 pm
Maybe I will search out a LASIK facility that will discuss their actual costs of a procedure. In 2000, Better Half paid $5500 for both eyes. It now costs around $3000. The earlier prices were even higher. I cannot imagine that their costs have continue to go up while the price to the customer continues to go down. Maybe they had insane margins in 2000, and are just barely scraping by now.JD (b63a52) — 2/1/2013 @ 8:43 pm
My guess is that the economics of LASIK is more like that of consumer electronics, a new something that is neat but nobody needs to have. At first it is really pricey and only a few can afford, but as popularity increases and the overhead of production decreases the cost comes down.
I imagine cornea transplants, which have been around a lot longer, have not decreased in price, as it is something only a limited number of people get and only when they must.MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 2/1/2013 @ 8:51 pm
Also competition. When lasik was new there were relatively few who could do it, now the availability/supply is much greater.MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 2/1/2013 @ 8:52 pm
And boobs. Boobs are cheaper.JD (b63a52) — 2/1/2013 @ 9:20 pm
I think also that preventative care has driven up cost. My friends and I who have had breast cancer think, geez, they have spent millions following up on us! It would have been cheaper (for insurance companies) to find the tumor late enough to do us in.Patricia (be0117) — 2/1/2013 @ 10:01 pm
Can't wait until our media darlings such as Andrea Mitchell-DNBC and David Gregory-DNBC, etc to start telling us how great the cost savings are and how wrong oppostition to Obama Care was over the next few years.Ipso Fatso (1e3278) — 2/2/2013 @ 4:13 am
As my tax biz has gone full tilt this week, noticed that in box 12 of every W2 is a new entry coded "DD", which is the amount of health care an employer pays for the taxpayer. There's no reason to tell anyone that unless at some point in the future it's taxed as income. The word is "inevitable".
Also rumored that the IRS as per Obama will lag refund payments to make the books look better, if only short-term. NY state did that in the 1990s but people complained and it was stopped after 2 years of nonsense. The IRS has delayed filing and refund payments anyway if you claim credits for higher education, energy-related home improvements and most other tax credits.Bugg (ba4ca9) — 2/2/2013 @ 5:17 am
I said there were 'very few' breakthroughs that lowered the cost of providing care. The examples you cite fall into the category of 'very few' and nowhere near enough to push down overall spending.
Think of medical spending in this way: #patients X #procedures per patient X $cost of each procedure. Given an increasing population (normal population growth, people living longer and Obamacare adding to the rolls), and a population that is generally unwilling to take care of themselves in a way that preempts the need for care later in life, and the first 2/3 of the equation results in a higher number. The 'cost' of providing care would have to go down for a lot more than the relative handful of examples to keep overall costs just stable. Since Lasik, etc., are the exception rather than the rule, we end up with the situation we have, health care costs on an ever-increasing trajectory.steve (e7e6c7) — 2/2/2013 @ 6:08 am
An additional thought, FWIW, a lot of medicaid goes to nursing home care subsidies. This will continue to rise not only because of an aging population, but because of smaller families and other social factors (mobility, etc.) that erode
the ability and willingness of families to take care of their own.
well duh
From Reuters:
The Obama administration's chief officer for Medicaid said the program has made years of progress in enrollment and will become more accessible next year under the reform law, even in states that do not participate in the coming expansion.
"As enrollment barriers are eliminated, participation rates of eligible people increases and the uninsured rate for individuals declines," Medicaid director Cindy Mann saidelissa (1c0cc3) — 2/2/2013 @ 7:31 am
Since Lasik, etc., are the exception rather than the rule,
Being an exception is the key. They are generally outside the standard insurance plans, and actually have to compete in a market.
You casually dismissed outpatient surgical centers above, but are another example of costs being driven down.JD (b63a52) — 2/2/2013 @ 7:35 am
Remember who is writing the rules;
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/06/04/the-empress-of-obamacarenarciso (3fec35) — 2/2/2013 @ 8:12 am
The Obama Adminstration has no respect for the rule of law and no intention of keeping its already vague promises when it comes to topics like immigration. Why should what Obama's methods and intentions for ObamaCare be any different?DRJ (a83b8b) — 2/2/2013 @ 8:21 am
Laws are for the little people,DRJ. They have some transforming to do.JD (b63a52) — 2/2/2013 @ 8:38 am
You can continue to nitpick and come up with a couple more examples, but when the exceptions are but (and I'm guessing) .001% of total medical costs, they're not going to bend the cost curve too much.steve (e7e6c7) — 2/2/2013 @ 8:48 am
Repeal of McCarran (the fellow who they based Sen. Geary on/Ferguson, which blocks interstate insurance sales would have been a good start.narciso (3fec35) — 2/2/2013 @ 9:10 am
Everyone should just agree with what steve says. He cares more. It is a fact that costs have come down in some aspects – LASIK, surgical outpatient centers, boob jobs, cosmetic surgeries in general. Ironically, that which makes them exceptions to your rule is what is good about them, and should be more emulated, not casually dismissed as exceptions, or what you think to be profit driven for owners.JD (b63a52) — 2/2/2013 @ 9:37 am
The Obama Adminstration has no respect for the rule of law
Well, the very fact its Secretary of the Treasury, who also therefore is the head of the IRS, is known to have cheated on his taxes, yet still got confirmed by our wonderful, beautiful system, does send a good message: That the IRS deserves all the respect that its current bigwig gave it awhile back.
I don't like the idea of cheating and dishonesty, but if America is going to end up like a bigger version of Greece — where many people are idiotically leftwing (and therefore boozy and giddy about all the entitlements provided by taxes) but no less notorious for also BSing on their tax returns — we might just as well follow the custom of "when in Athens, do as the Greeks do."Mark (68549d) — 2/2/2013 @ 9:44 am
The Ken Burns programs on Prohibition demonstrate vividly what happens when poorly constructed and draconian laws are not considered sane and are therefore dis-respected by the general public. Prohibition was the poster child for unintended consequences. Prohibition opened wide the door for the criminal underworld with all its violence and graft to work with increasingly crooked local pols to provide (or overlook) product that was not legal– but was desired by the people. One of the program's sections is aptly titled "Everybody's a Lawbreaker", which shows how, as prohibition stumbled on, almost any citizen could find ways to obtain alchohol for home use and knew of not so secret underground social places where they could enjoy it with others. Millions of regular Joes and Janes from all walks of life did eventually casually and cavalierly "break the law" about liquor, believing (quite properly) that the law was stupid and did not deserve their respect or deserve to be obeyed. This was the first serious mass law-breaking as response to political legislation in a nation that had pretty much obligingly gone by the rules up till then.
I suspect something very similar and black marketish will happen regarding both avoidance of Obamacare rules and obtaining/providing needed medical services, ahem, privately. Any draconian gun laws which are passed will unleash the same black market forces and graft that ultimately doomed Prohibition and make violent crime even worse. But our "betters" don't get it. I don't think their desired goal of lousy, restricted, NHS-style single payer medical care will avoid the unintended consequences, either.
Yes, alchoholism was/is a societal problem just as gun violence and the high price of medical care are societal problems. But the lesson of prohibition is that the wrong government mandated "cure" can be way worse and affect much more than just those with the problem or disease.
Maybe if Dems were more conversant with math and history…..elissa (1c0cc3) — 2/2/2013 @ 10:41 am
A good illustration, but one difference is that "anybody" can be part of the bootleg alcohol stream; to provide medical care (other than providing bottles of pills without the safeguards of a pharmacist) requires training and an enforceable license.
Pity the first doc/dentist whoever that gets caught running afoul of ObamaCare, their practice location will be behind bars.
While all realize the problems with prohibition, the problems of alcohol abuse result in much misery as well. Of course, alcohol does not need to be imported from out of the country, and the relative social stigma (or lack thereof) made it more imaginable for the "typical family" to break the law than heroin, cocaine, crystal meth, and to a lesser degree pot.
But many a spouse or child would have liked alcohol to be outlawed, though they know it is just a wish, not a workable solution.MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 2/2/2013 @ 10:57 am
As the local radio station says, when Obamacare goes into effect, where will Canadians go for their health care.
Maybe setting up a medical/surgical practice in Costa Rica would be a good idea, the old idea of "getting some fresh air" by the ocean or in the mountains combined with 21st century medicine, at lower cost than in the US anyway.
Lots of Spanish speakers who can go in and out of the country "easily" go to the Dominican republic for breast cosmetic surgery because of the decreased costs.
No, I don't know if there is any overlap with other "business opportunities" in the DR.
More house calls, maybe?elissa (1c0cc3) — 2/2/2013 @ 11:13 am
MD–when our close-knit little neighborhood suffered a "once a century" flood a while back most of us were stranded from the outside world for a few days without electricity while sloshing through river water laying sandbags to protect property, trying to keep generators going, checking on each other, sharing food, etc. A neighbor, a doctor, got someone from his practice to come in as close as possible in a Hummer and he went out to meet it in his hip-waders because he needed to peform a critical surgery. When he returned home that night, again via the Hummer shuttle, he brought extra supplies and he came around and gave any of us who wanted/needed one a free tetanous shot.elissa (1c0cc3) — 2/2/2013 @ 11:33 am
Good comments, MD and elissa. I hope none of us become dependent on our neighbors for basic necessities — although I fear we're all closer to that now, thanks to Obama — but it's nice to know we live among people who will help.DRJ (a83b8b) — 2/2/2013 @ 11:45 am
"A good illustration, but one difference is that "anybody" can be part of the bootleg alcohol stream; to provide medical care (other than providing bottles of pills without the safeguards of a pharmacist) requires training and an enforceable license."
MD in Philly – In the insurance industry it is illegal for insurers to charge different customers different prices for the same product. A group health (employer provided) policy is rated and priced differently than an individually purchased health insurance policy. From an insurance perspective, they are not the same product.
On the medical side, I don't know what, if any, rules govern the differential pricing seen in the marketplace for providers of healthcare goods and services.daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/2/2013 @ 11:56 am
82. And boobs. Boobs are cheaper.
Comment by JD (b63a52) — 2/1/2013 @ 9:20 pm
Especially if you buy in bulk. Just look at the collection MSNBC managed to put together.Steve57 (544a72) — 2/2/2013 @ 4:00 pm
Blast from the past. Who said:
"Your employer will see premiums fall by as much as 3000% which means he can give you a raise"
No peeking.Steve57 (544a72) — 2/2/2013 @ 4:27 pm
Not a complete solution, althjough Rush Limbaugh, I think, puts ionto this something dr,. Carson did not say: that this Health Savings Account should applyu to more or less routine expenses. It's actually different from what dr. Carson said:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/02/07/dr_carson_s_43_second_solutionSammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 2/7/2013 @ 1:54 pm
Comment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 2/2/2013 @ 11:56 am
On the medical side, I don't know what, if any, rules govern the differential pricing seen in the marketplace for providers of healthcare goods and services.
They negotiate with insurance providers, and the list price is astronomical, but if somebody makes a real fuss they discount it – like from $60,000 to $340.
For real:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/health/insurance-industry-report-faults-high-fees-for-out-of-network-care.htmlSammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 2/7/2013 @ 1:57 pm
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The start of the 2013-2014 NHL season can't come soon enough for hockey fans after losing nearly half of last season. It marks an important anniversary in New York Rangers history – the 20th anniversary of the slaying of the dragon at MSG. The new season also marks the debut of Alain Vigneault as the 35th head coach in Blueshirts history. Only time will tell if Rangers fans will refer to AV's stint in the Big Apple as the Vigneault Era or the Vigneault Error.
In a season that features realignment, new goal nets and the potential for a new hybrid icing system, one intriguing subplot to this season is finding out who will win the "coaches' trade" between the Rangers and Vancouver Canucks as former Rangers bench boss John Tortorella heads to the Pacific Northwest as the 17th coach in Canucks history.
While coaches are "hired to be fired", the swapping of Alain Vigneault and John Tortorella as coaches would sure make a 1994 Stanley Cup rematch even more riveting – especially when you consider both coaches were used as scapegoats for their General Managers inability to produce a winner.
While both GMs fired their coaches to deflect attention off of themselves, they each had different reasons for utilizing the same game plan.
Rangers GM Glen Sather is no danger of losing his job any time soon. He is as close to having a job for life as any GM in sports. His reasoning for turning to a scapegoat is to protect/rebuild his reputation. Sather has not been the architect of a Stanley Cup champion since 1988. His bout with prostate cancer helped lend urgency to protecting/rebuilding his legacy.
Canucks GM Mike Gillis has to consider himself in survival mode. Although Vancouver is five-for-five in winning the Northwest Division during Gillis' tenure, the team has been knocked out in the Conference Quarterfinals (aka the first round) the last two years in five games (2012 to Los Angeles) and in four games (2013 to San Jose) while posting a pedestrain28-28 record in the playoffs.
Sather is looking to change the Rangers style of play for the third time in nine months. Leading up to last season, Sather dealt away some of the "jam" that Torts often praised as the Rangers GM attempted to correct the Blueshirts offensive woes. In doing so he never really increased the Rangers offense, rather he depleted the Rangers depth.
As a result, Slats traded away Marian Gaborik in order to fill the depth holes that Sather had created as part of the Rick Nash trade and never filled via free agency or trade.
With salary cap constraints dictating policy, Sather is once again looking to boost offense in the form of a new style of play – thus the hiring of Vigneault. Of course, the Rangers would have had maneuverability within the salary cap had Sather simply bought out Brad Richards.
Given the potential bargain basement free agents that were available after the initial free agent frenzy, the Rangers could have added depth at a reasonable price, signed Derek Stepan to a longer deal rather than a bridge deal and used some of that Rangers depth to be more active in the trade market.
Mike Gillis has had a trying off-season as well. Vancouver's GM faced the same dilemma that Neil Smith did at the end of the 1992-1993 season. Both Gillis and Smith had championship-caliber teams that languished in the playoffs and were facing major decision in terms of goaltending.
Smith had to make a decision between Mike Richter and John Vanbiesbrouck. While the VanRichterbrouck tandem worked well in the regular season, it was a playoff failure. Smith decided on the younger Richter as he shipped Beezer to Vancouver prior to the 1993 Expansion Draft in exchange for future considerations.
Vancouver made the deal in order to expose Vanbiesbrouck in the Expansion Draft as a means of protecting their prospects – which worked as the goalie was the first player selected by Florida. In return, the Rangers acquired Doug Lidster who would go on to play an important role late in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Smith then replaced Vanbiesbrouck by acquiring Glenn Healy from Tampa Bay in exchange for a 1993 third round draft pick.
It was pretty much an expected done deal that Roberto Luongo's time in Vancouver was done – so much so that the veteran netminder put his townhouse up for sale. In a pre-cap NHL, Gillis would have followed Smith's example and moved the veteran goalie. However, despite Luongo's resume, trading the 34-year-old became less and less an option when you factor in that he has nine years left on his 12-years, $64-million contract at an annual cap hit of $5.3 million.
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Luongo had grown so disenchanted by the end of last season that he even explored the possibility of voiding his contract.
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Gillis is facing the same situation in Vancouver. While Tortorella doesn't have the same GM aspirations that Keenan had, his baggage does make Torts a risky hire – especially for a GM like Gillis who is hiring his first NHL coach. Gillis inherited a coach in Vigneault who had a Northwest Division title (2006-07) and a fifth place finish (2007-08) under his belt in Vancouver.
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Another View: U.S. Postal Service's financial woes are a problem of politics, not parcelsBY FREDRIC ROLANDO
December 03. 2012 6:05PM
Few agencies interact more regularly with individual citizens than the United States Postal Service (USPS), which delivers to more than 150 million addresses six days a week across the country, from the most isolated villages to the most densely populated cities.
For six years in a row, Americans have named the Postal Service, which is older than the country itself, the most trusted federal agency.
Despite this, the conventional wisdom - that an agency losing billions of dollars a quarter because everyone's on the Internet necessitates sharp cuts in service lest taxpayers be on the hook - is highly misleading.
Granite Staters deserve to know the story behind the headlines. So too, do the Granite State's political representatives, with the fate of this venerable American institution likely up to the next Congress. Few states would be more affected by cuts in service than New Hampshire, with its many small towns and rural areas, its large number of small businesses and its high proportion of elderly residents.
The Postal Service is a topic that should unite Republicans and Democrats, conservatives, moderates and liberals - and, of course, the independents that abound in New Hampshire. There's never been, and shouldn't be, anything partisan about the post office. Here are some easily verifiable facts about the actual financial situation.
The Postal Service is financially self-sufficient. It pays for itself by the revenue it earns selling stamps and other products. Taxpayers don't fund it, and haven't for 30 years.
Moreover, the Postal Service's financial performance has been admirable. Through the mid-2000s, the USPS had annual profits in the low billions. Since 2007, in the worst economy since the Depression, it's had an average annual loss from postal operations of about $1.2 billion, unsurprising given the mass unemployment, extensive business failures and high foreclosure rates. Today, on-time deliveries and worker productivity are at record highs.
The oft-cited multibillion sea of red ink has little to do with the mail; much to do with politics. In 2006, Congress mandated that the Postal Service do something no other agency or company in the country has to do - pre-fund future retiree health benefits. Moreover, lawmakers set a highly aggressive level: pre-funding for the next 75 years, paid within a decade.
This mandate accounts for 80 percent of all USPS red ink, $11.1 billion alone in just-completed fiscal 2012. Without it, the Postal Service could readily have weathered the tough economy. This artificial crisis has exhausted the agency's savings, borrowing authority and periodic profits. Beyond that, it's distracted the Postal Service from doing what it's always done: develop a business plan to meet the challenges of an evolving society while seizing the opportunities.
Rather than rushing through a flawed bill in a lame-duck session, the new Congress should start over in January and fix pre-funding. That would eliminate the biggest drain on postal finances. It also would relieve the crisis atmosphere, letting the postal community focus on developing a forward-looking plan.
Opportunities abound. The very Internet that provides challenges also provides opportunities. More folks pay bills online but they're also ordering goods online - packages that require delivery. This exploding e-commerce market already is boosting Postal Service revenue - in fiscal 2012 alone by 8.7 percent - as FedEx and UPS turn to its highly efficient universal network to deliver their packages cost-effectively.
The USPS provides the world's most affordable delivery service. It's rooted in the Constitution. It unites this vast land. It anchors a $1.3 trillion mailing industry employing 7.5 million private-sector Americans, including 42,160 in New Hampshire.
It's critical to small businesses, which are open weekends and need to send and receive financial documents. Ending Saturday service would impose added costs on New Hampshire's small businesses, with 289,779 employees. It also would disproportionately affect the elderly, rural communities and people who need medicines on weekends.
Under a program President George W. Bush began and President Obama continues, letter carriers, of whom one-quarter are military veterans, have voluntarily trained to deliver medicines to residents in several metropolitan areas (including Boston) in event of a biological attack. The "Carrier Alert" program protects the elderly and disabled living alone. Letter carriers annually conduct the country's largest single-day food drive, replenishing food banks nationwide. All for free, and without a dime of taxpayer money.
For 200 years, the Postal Service has faced technological innovations such as the telephone, fax machine or telegraph, emerging stronger each time. If lawmakers address the pre-funding fiasco - rather than reducing services to Americans and their businesses - it can do so once again.
Fredric Rolando is president of the National Association of Letter Carriers.


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Baltimore, Md. – The Sandra and Malcolm Berman Brain & Spine Institute at LifeBridge Health has been acknowledged for the exceptional quality of its stroke care with a Target: Stroke designation and two Get With The Guidelines®–Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Awards from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.
The Berman Brain & Spine Institute's Stroke Center at Sinai Hospital was awarded a Target: Stroke designation in recognition of its excellence in delivering timely critical care to patients with acute stroke. The designation was earned because Sinai met the criteria of providing IV tPA, a clot-busting drug, to at least 50 percent of ischemic stroke patients within 60 minutes of their arrival at the hospital, also known as "door-to-needle time." This was accomplished over the last six months of 2012. To date in 2013, Sinai Hospital has increased this rate to more than 75 percent.
"The delivery of timely treatment to patients with stroke is essential to ensuring successful outcomes for their long-term health," noted Adrian J. Goldszmidt, M.D., chief of the Department of Neurology at Sinai Hospital. "We are pleased to be part of a select group of hospitals throughout the country and one of only seven in Maryland to have achieved this Target: Stroke distinction."
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NAME: Mike Lazaridis
BORN: March 14, 1961, in Istanbul, Turkey
HOMETOWN: Windsor, Ontario, since moving to Canada as a kid in 1966.
EDUCATION: Attended University of Waterloo in electrical engineering. Dropped out to start RIM. While later leading RIM, he served as the school's chancellor.
FAMILY: Married with two kids.
CAREER: Invented BlackBerry and co-founded RIM in 1984, during his last year at college. Stepped down as co-CEO in January 2012, became vice chairman and board director. Leaving RIM on May 1. Recently co-founded a $100 million venture capital fund called Quantum Valley Investments, to focus on the power of quantum computing.
COMMUNITY: Founded the Quantum-Nano Centre in Waterloo in 2012. Founded the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo in 2002. Established the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in 2000. Has spent $270 million in the community, including $170 million on Perimeter.
EARLY ACHIEVER: He won a prize at age 12 for reading every science book in the Windsor Public Library.
THE ARTS: Won Academy Award and Emmy Award for technical achievements for developing a high-speed bar-code reader that has helped speed up film editing.
QUOTE: "I'm very proud of what we built at RIM together. I believe I'm leaving the company in good hands."
WEALTH: Lazaridis' stake in RIM was worth more than $3 billion at its peak in 2008, according to Forbes magazine, but the value has fallen to about $440 million amid the company's declining stock price.


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Israel recently proposed a United Nations resolution, it submitted its candidacy for a two-year seat on the Security Council, and its prime minister has been warmly received speaking to the General Assembly.
For any of the 190 other nations in the world organization, those would be routine events.
But in Israel's case, the resolution is the first the country has ever proposed, and the request for a Security Council seat presumes an end to the disdain with which the country has historically been treated at the United Nations.
The address by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, on Sept. 15, was his first at the United Nations. It was delivered to a hall that has rung with denunciations of his country, where a tide of condemnatory resolutions has passed by lopsided votes and which Arab delegates regularly vacated whenever an Israeli rose to speak.
Any improvement at the U.N. is, of course, good news. But that organization has a long, long way to go, and its progress (or lack thereof) is followed more skeptically by the editors of Eye on the UN, a terrific site. Go there for the latest UN news and commentary. Scott and I had the pleasure of meeting Anne Bayefsky, one of the site's editors, last week. Anne has a long history as a UN insider, beginning when she was a member of the Canadian delegation to the UN. Among many other roles, she served with the Commission on Human Rights, and was a delegate to the infamous Durban Conference in 2001.
Anne said to me that the UN turns out vast reams of reports, many of which contain revealing information; the organization relies on the assumption that hardly anyone will actually read and understand them. But Anne and her colleagues do read them, with the gimlet eye of the insider who knows first-hand the follies of the international bureaucracy.
Eye on the UN is new, but is already a definitive resource. Check it out.
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FRANKLIN, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes was firing up a group of about 30 voters from a picturesque gazebo Saturday when the sun suddenly broke through the clouds and shone on her face.
"How much did she pay for that," one woman quipped as Grimes finished her speech.
It's a fair question in one of the country's most expensive and contentious Senate races. Grimes, Kentucky's secretary of state, and Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell have already raised a combined $19 million in the two years leading up to Tuesday's primary elections. But with Grimes and McConnell both holding big leads over their primary opponents, their campaigns view Tuesday as a dress rehearsal for November's showdown.
A McConnell win could help swing control of the Senate to the Republicans, setting up two years of intense fighting on the future of the nation's health care law. A Democratic win would topple a 30-year GOP incumbent and Senate leader.
About a mile from where Grimes was speaking, McConnell told a group of about 30 people at the Tanglewood Farms Market & Deli that the Kentucky Senate race was a microcosm of the national political discussion.
"We will be in the crosshairs of this great national debate about what American ought to be like," McConnell said. "Do we want to be like western European countries, with big debt, high taxes, strangulated regulations? Or do we want to be a country that's still based on opportunity and initiative and the chance to realize your dream without the government trying to micromanage every aspect of your life."
In this small Kentucky town near the Tennessee border, where registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans by 2 to 1, Grimes and McConnell had the same message: change. Grimes would like to see Kentucky change senators, and she criticized McConnell for voting against raising the minimum wage and blocking measures to ensure women make the same salaries as men.
McConnell would like to stay in the Senate, but change jobs, from minority leader to majority leader. Republicans would have to pick up six seats for that to happen, wresting control of the Senate from Democrats. As majority leader he'd be in charge of stopping a president's agenda that he says has devastated Kentucky's coal industry and upended the country's health care system.
McConnell and his allies are already running television ads comparing Grimes to Obama, whose disapproval rating in Kentucky is at least 60 percent.
"Nothing about this election is going to change who the president is," Grimes said in an interview, calling herself a "fierce opponent" to Obama's new emission standards for coal-fired power plants, a big issue in Kentucky's coalfields. "But Kentuckians do realize that we can finally change who is in Washington, D.C."
With minimal opposition, Tuesday could likely be a victory for Grimes as she seeks to rally her base heading into November. But the primary is tricky for McConnell, who has a comfortable lead over Louisville businessman Matt Bevin but could lose some 30 percent of Republican voters to other GOP candidates. Conservatives are unhappy about McConnell's compromises with Democrats to raise the debt ceiling, pass the Wall Street bailouts and other fiscal issues.
"I think he'll have a very tough time bringing them back," said Jonathan Hurst, Grimes' campaign manager. "We will welcome those who vote against Sen. McConnell and his own party on Tuesday to join our campaign."
But Republicans in Franklin were confident that the changing political demographics of their county — with a preference for Democratic state officials and Republican federal officials — would be emblematic of the state as a whole in November.
"When I first ran for office in '98, party registration for Democrats was at that time about 5 to 1. ... It's almost dropped to 2 to 1," said Jim Henderson, a Republican and the county's top elected official. "It's because the national Democratic Party doesn't reflect even Kentucky Democrats who might consider themselves conservative."


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W3C has just released EmotionML – a markup language expressing emotions. From their recommendation:
Human emotions are increasingly understood to be a crucial aspect in human-machine interactive systems. Especially for non-expert end users, reactions to complex intelligent systems resemble social interactions, involving feelings such as frustration, impatience, or helplessness if things go wrong. Furthermore, technology is increasingly used to observe human-to-human interactions, such as customer frustration monitoring in call center applications. Dealing with these kinds of states in technological systems requires a suitable representation, which should make the concepts and descriptions developed in the affective sciences available for use in technological contexts.
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Classical Revolution Phoenix continued their mission to expand the classical music audience with "Bayer & Peterson": a concert featuring the works of Elizabeth Bayer Kennedy and Tom Peterson. Both composers were recipients of the Judge's and Audience Awards from the 2012 Classical Revolution PHX AZ Centennial-Themed Composition Competition sponsored by the Tempe History Museum.
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The largest gathering in the field worldwide, MSM is the premier technical forum for presenting the latest research and development in design, modeling and simulation methods, tools and applications in the MEMS, microelectronic, semiconductor, sensor, materials and biotechnology fields.
The Nanotech 2007 Meeting, MSM & ICCN Conferences, and the WCM workshop will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California, U.S.A., in the heart of the silicon valley.
The conference Technical Proceedings, consisting of articles submitted by authors of both oral and poster presentations will, be distributed to participants at registration.
In addition to the Technical Program, an exciting series of Social Events are being prepared to allow attendees ample opportunity to interact socially and enjoy the sights and sounds of the venue.
The goal of MSM is to bring together researchers, designers, programmers and vendors involved in microsystem developments (MEMS microelectronic, semiconductor, sensor, materials and biotechnology fields). In an effort to dramatically shorten development time and reduce prototyping costs, simulation activities have experienced phenomenal growth, generating a large number of point solutions, as well as integrated tools.
MSM provides a forum for microsystem simulation specialists, allowing them to be exposed to the state of the art modeling techniques currently implemented in academic or industrial research, encouraging a free exchange of ideas and generating synergies between adjacent specialties. Finally, MSM strives to help advanced modeling techniques diffuse into industry and research centers by organizing workshops, demonstrations and short courses.
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Bart Romanowicz, NSTI, USA
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Stephen F. Bart, Bose Corporation, USA
Bum-Kyoo Choi, Sogang University, Korea
Bernard Courtois, TIMA-CMP, France
Peter Cousseau, Honeywell, USA
Robert W. Dutton, Stanford University, USA
Gary K. Fedder, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan
Elena Gaura, Coventry University, UK
Steffen Hardt, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Andreas Hieke, Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc., USA
Eberhard P. Hofer, University of Ulm, Germany
Charles H. Hsu, MaxiMEM Limited, USA
Michael Judy, Analog Devices, USA
Yozo Kanda, Toyo University, Japan
Jan G. Korvink, University of Freiburg, Germany
Anantha Krishnan, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, USA
Mark E. Law, University of Florida, USA
Mary-Ann Maher, SoftMEMS, USA
Kazunori Matsuda, Tokushima Bunri University, Japan
Chris Menzel, Nano Science and Technology Institute, USA
Tamal Mukherjee, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Andrzej Napieralski, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
Ruth Pachter, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Michael G. Pecht, University of Maryland, USA
Marcel D. Profirescu, Technical University of Bucharest, Romania
PVM Rao, IIT Delhi, India
Philippe Renaud, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, Switzerland
Marta Rencz, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
Siegried Selberherr, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Sudhama Shastri, ON Semiconductor, USA
Armin Sulzmann, Daimler-Chrysler, Germany
Mathew Varghese, The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., USA
Dragica Vasilesca, Arizona State University, USA
Gerhard Wachutka, Technical University of Münich, Germany
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Reflecting the rapid growth of the Micro and Nano systems fields and the commitment and success of the respective research communities, the Electronics and Microsystems suite of symposia at Nanotech 2007 has evolved into a premier annual event in the Micro and Nano technologies arena.
The MEMS & NEMS , Sensors & Systems , Micro & Nano Fluidics and MSM - Modeling Microsystems symposia will jointly provide a whole and comprehensive forum for a multidisciplinary community, with presentations and topics for discussion ranging from theoretical developments through design and fabrication to industry-oriented applications.
Smarter and smaller and ever more complex systems are being dreamt of, which combine micro and nano system technologies with intelligence, power supply and communication ability, at the same physical scale. Such integrated systems are to be primarily component based and, both the whole and the composites subject to a variety of trends. The increasing systems complexity and multidisciplinary pose strong challenges to the engineers involved in the modelling and fabrication of micro and nanosystems, electronics and wireless communication domains. The Microsystems and Electronics strand will provide valuable networking and interaction opportunities by successfully bringing together the four Symposia above.
World-class researchers in several focused topics of MEMS and NEMS will present their latest research results, allowing cross-disciplinary exchange of knowledge to further advance both technological areas. MEMS is naturally continuing its downsizing into Nanoelectromechanical Systems but at the same time it is indispensable in constructing complete Nano devices and systems. MEMS and Nanotechnology are becoming highly complimentary technologies that will significantly impact various large industries across the globe.
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Selected proceedings papers in the Electronics and Microsystems Track (MEMS & NEMS, Sensors & Systems, Micro & Nano Fluidics symposia, and MSM conference) will be reviewed and invited into a Special Issue of the on-line magazine 'Sensors & Transducers' (S&T e-Digest).
For consideration into this Special Issue of the on-line magazine 'Sensors & Transducers', please select the "Submit to 'Sensors & Transducers' (S&T e-Digest)" button during the on-line submission procedure.
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