Thursday, 4 September 2008

Sarah Palin on Regulation and Competition in Health Care

Sarah  PalinSo McCain picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. We quickly learned that she eats caribou and loves jogging, but we wanted to know what she�s been up to in health-care policy.


One interesting fight she�s joined is the push to get rid of an Alaska law that says hospitals or clinics can only build new facilities if state regulators agree the facilities are needed.


The feds used to require this sort of thing, known as a certificate-of-need program. The requirement disappeared in the mid-�80s, but lots of states still have the rules on the books. As this 2002 WSJ story shows, there�s been a rolling fight in various states for years over whether to keep the rules in place.


In February, Palin wrote an op-ed in the Anchorage Daily News arguing that scrapping Alaska�s certificate-of-need program would improve access and quality and lower prices, by allowing supply to expand to meet demand. (Florida Republican Gov. Charlie Crist has been arguing for similar changes in his state.)


But supporters of such programs point to data from sources such as the Dartmouth Atlas, a long-running research project whose findings suggest that building excess health-care capacity can actually lead patients to receive unneeded treatments. They say hospitals and clinics need to fill patient beds and run lots of tests to pay for a new wing or a fancy new scanner.


Like the national argument, the situation in Alaska remains unresolved. Legislation Palin backed to repeal the Alaska�s certificate-of-need rules � here�s the state Senate version of the bill � has yet to pass the state legislature.


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Monday, 25 August 2008

Download Pissing Razors mp3






Pissing Razors
   

Artist: Pissing Razors: mp3 download


   Genre(s): 

Metal

   







Discography:


Evolution
   

 Evolution

   Year: 2003   

Tracks: 10
Where We Come From
   

 Where We Come From

   Year: 2001   

Tracks: 10
Fields Of Disbelief
   

 Fields Of Disbelief

   Year: 2000   

Tracks: 12
Cast Down The Plague
   

 Cast Down The Plague

   Year: 1999   

Tracks: 13
Pissing Razors
   

 Pissing Razors

   Year: 1998   

Tracks: 13






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Friday, 15 August 2008

Hilary Swank, Molly Smith nab 'Women'

Heather Hach to adjust the best seller by Mireille Guiliano





Hilary Swank and her producing partner Molly Smith have picked up the rights to the bestseller "French Women Don't Get Fat," setting Heather Hach to adapt.

Swank, who is eyeing the project as a potency starring fomite, and Smith will produce via their recently formed Alcon Entertainment-based 2S Films, along with Aaron Geller and Darryl Porter of PorterGeller Entertainment.

"Women," written by former Veuve Clicquot bubbly executive Mireille Guiliano, was a domestic and outside sensation when it was first published in 2004. The nonfiction, lifestyle quran offered perceptiveness on how French women manage to stay slender despite enjoying such calorie-rich fare as wine and pastries. The book sold more than 1 meg copies, reached No. 1 on the New York Times nonfictional prose best-seller heel and was translated into 40 languages. Mireille became a fixture on TV, appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," morning news shows and other programs around the world.

2S and PorterGeller, with Hach, are development the project as a romantic comedy following a "girl-next-door champagne company middle manager wHO learns some tough living lessons which help her become the woman she's always treasured to be," the companies said.

Developing features around nonfictional prose book titles or concepts isn't new. New Line has "He's Just Not That Into You," an adaptation of the geological dating lifestyle tome by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo.

Swank and Smith also ar developing "Falling Out of Fashion" and "You're Not You." Porter and Geller are development a buddy-action comedy based on the TV series "Soul Train" for Warner Bros. with the show's creator, Don Cornelius, as well as a biopic on the life and music of Miles Davis, which has Don Cheadle is attached to genius and direct.

Hach wrote 2003's "Freaky Friday" as well as "Legally Blonde: The Musical," and is penning a sequel to the novel "Freaky Friday" with the original author Mary Rodgers. She is repped by Endeavor and Fuse Entertainment.


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Thursday, 7 August 2008

The O�Connells are having babies







Rebecca Romijn-O�Connell and her hubby, Jerry O�Connell, are expecting twins, their rep confirms to People.

The babies are due this winter. The parents-to-be were married in 2007.

Ugly Betty�s Romijn, 35, recently told Self magazine she hoped to be �lucky enough� to have kids. Just last-place week, O�Connell, 34, told People, �We�re trying to get pregnant,� adding that practising has been �a lot of fun.�








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Friday, 27 June 2008

Michael Sandler and Musir Von Vidalia

Michael Sandler and Musir Von Vidalia   
Artist: Michael Sandler and Musir Von Vidalia

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Ambient
   



Discography:


Meetingplace   
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   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 6




 






Monday, 23 June 2008

Piers Morgan slams Keira Knightley

'Britain's Got Talent' judge Piers Morgan has hit out at actress Keira Knightley for complaining about being famous.
The newspaper editor and television star suggested that it was hypocritical of Knightley to complain about media intrusion into her life and then pose for photo shoots for magazines.
Morgan told Closer magazine: "She moans about being famous and then does endless photo sessions. You can't use the media to promote yourself and then attack them."
"My message to Keira is: 'If you'd like me to get off your case, stop bleating!' Most people would change their lives in a flash to have a tenth of what people like her have. Being famous is brilliant."

Sunday, 15 June 2008

Johnny Depp - Depp Wedding Reports Not True


Reports suggesting JOHNNY DEPP will wed longtime partner VANESSA PARADIS at SANDRA BULLOCK's Georgia home on Saturday (14Jun08) have been shot down by the actor's publicist.

Catering trucks, police activity and local gossip led many to believe that Bullock's Tybee Island home near Savannah would be the site of the latest celebrity wedding ceremony.

But Depp's representative Robin Baum says, "There is no truth to these rumours."

That has led Savannah locals to ask who is planning a highprofile wedding at the Speed star's estate.

One says, "Some store employees have signed confidentiality agreements and there are catering trucks and tent rental truck parked up, while I'm told police will be working as security at the mystery event.

"If it is not Depp, it's someone big."





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