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Crain’s New York Business
Aaron Elstein
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Excerpt:

Happy paydays are here again. On Wall Street, at least.

Compensation consultancy Johnson Associates last week forecast that Wall Street bonuses would rise 40% this year. At Goldman Sachs, average pay per employee is on pace for $658,000 this year—80% higher than a year ago. Generous pay guarantees for incoming executives and golden parachutes for departing managers are making a comeback at financial firms. And salaries are going straight up.

American Express Co. last month disclosed it recently raised the base salaries of its chief financial officer and two other executives by a range of 24% to 48% to offset 10% pay reductions they took earlier this year, before the credit card giant had repaid the government its $3.4 billion in bailout money. And new details on the $20 million exit package for President Alfred Kelly, who is leaving AmEx by April to search for a CEO post elsewhere, show his $9.7 million in severance will be paid fortnightly over two years, even if he lands a job at Bank of America or another big competitor. AmEx declined to comment.

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The New York Times
Robert H. Frank
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Excerpt:

The United States spends twice as much per capita on health care as many other nations, yet achieves inferior outcomes by such varied measures as life expectancy, preventable deaths from specific illnesses, and infant mortality. Much of the performance gap stems from the fact that many of the nation’s 45 million uninsured fail to receive needed care.

The spending gap stems largely from a conflict inherent in how American physicians are paid. Elsewhere, most doctors are salaried. But under most American health plans, including Medicare and Medicaid, doctors are reimbursed according to how many tests and procedures they perform.

Most doctors undoubtedly recommend only those tests and procedures that they sincerely believe to be in their patients’ best interests. Yet those interests are seldom completely clear. And when doctors know that their incomes will be higher if they recommend additional procedures, many may tilt in that direction.

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Marketplace and ProPublica
Sharona Coutts and Amy Scott
This two-part series looks at recruiting practices at for-profit schools, particularly the University of Phoenix. You can read part of the transcript, get links for more information and listen to the stories here.
Excerpt:

MICHELE RAMBO: My name is Michele Rambo, and I live in Grand Prairie, Texas.

Rambo signed up at the University of Phoenix in Dallas a few years ago.

RAMBO: I did tell them that I was pregnant and they were like, oh, well that just solves everything, you know, you qualify for a grant, you’re covered. And I’m like, so I don’t have to pay anything? And they told me no.

Classes went well. She got good grades. She was almost finished with her associate degree when a school counselor called about moving her on to a bachelor’s program.

RAMBO: And one of the questions that she asked me completely stopped the whole conversation. She had asked me, so what kind of loan do you have?

Rambo thought she didn’t have a loan. But when she enrolled, she signed what she thought was a form inquiring about federal aid.

Turns out it was an application for loans that’ll cost her $18,000 when she graduates.

RAMBO: It was scary. It still is scary. I’m still scared. I still don’t even know what I’m going to do yet.

So how could this happen?

It turns out the enrollment counselors at the University of Phoenix get paid in part based on how many students they recruit. The university’s negotiating the settlement of a lawsuit that claims employees were pressured to sign people up.

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Some people never learn. Read the article here.
Excerpt:

The Obama administration is pushing House Democrats to spare small public companies the cost of complying with investor-protection rules imposed after the accounting frauds at Enron Corp. and WorldCom Inc., according to people familiar with the efforts.

Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is seeking the reprieve from audit requirements under the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the people said. Representative Carolyn Maloney plans to add the exemption, postponing compliance fees for firms with market values of less than $75 million, to a bill overhauling financial rules.

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