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Medicare Payments to Docs: Here Comes the Two-Month Patch

14 hours ago ago from The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine

Ed. More on the SGR From the Wall Street Journal Health Blog : All year, Congress has been trying to figure out what to do about the 21% cut in Medicare payments to doctors that’s set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2010. The latest legislative maneuver would block the cut — but only for two months. That short-term patch is tucked inside a big defense spending bill the House passed today.

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theres no crying in running

16 hours ago ago from Nurse on the Run » Nurse on the Run

Thanks to everyone for your support on my last post! It’s good to know that other people are out there who aren’t happy in their jobs (I’m not happy that you’re not happy…but it’s comforting that other people are in my situation!). At the end of the day, a job is a job and sometimes you have to pay the bills or do something you don’t like in order to get something that you eventually will like. Like I’ve said, I don’t hate nursing, I just ...

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UK science funding stands out for cuts

9 hours ago ago from RLV and Space Transport News

A long-standing belief by many US scientists is that eliminating the human spaceflight program would free up lots of money for both space and the general sciences. However, as I've pointed out before, the empirical evidence from the UK doesn't back this up since an aggressively anti-HSF policy in place there for decades has not led to generous funding of the sciences. E.g. in a budget crisis, science is one of the first places the government ...

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8 hours ago ago from The Economic Voice

While the politicians wrangle in the halls of the Bella Center in Copenhagen, outside the protestors get the heavy handed police treatment. It also looks like Gordon Brown’s early arrival, timed no doubt to coincide with a triumph, has been met with almost deadlock. From a trawl of the day’s newspapers we get a lot of different information. It seems the US are offering what the rest of the world see as derisory carbon emission cuts, ...

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19 hours ago ago from Our Second Child

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