October 2010
6 posts
Physician Panel Prescribes the Fees Paid by... →
jayparkinsonmd:
Three times a year, 29 doctors gather around a table in a hotel meeting room. Their job is an unusual one: divvying up billions of Medicare dollars.
The group, convened by the American Medical Association, has no official government standing. Members are mostly selected by medical-specialty trade groups. Anyone who attends its meetings must sign a confidentiality agreement.
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“A plot, if there is to be one, must be a secret. A secret that, if only we knew...”
– Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum (via ayjay)
Robin Hanson on the agrarian revolution and...
WatchRobert Wright and Frans de Waal on primate morality
“People must see a lot in themselves, or they wouldn’t be reacting so strongly. I...”
– Matthew Weiner on Betty (Draper) Francis
WatchJoshua Knobe and Lera Boroditsky on language and thought
