Investing because when retailers weak people assume the whole market is weak too. Something again happened with the dow falling 65 points. Yes and nasdaq,. 09 . Not a lot of retail on the nasdaq, therefore trying to figure out what the heck is going on in retail and determine whether its right this group should be having a big impact as a whole. These are two different questions and need to be addressed separately. Lets deal with the proximate cause, the elephant in the room. The very poor numbers from best buy. There was a time when best buy would have absolutely killed that, the kind of shortfall report the this morning, with shares barely down,. 9 . And some softer Gross Margins but not deadly. This shortfall sent best buy down a staggering 10. 74, nearly 29 wasnt just any miss. It was a miss that came on top of a remarkable turnaround. A turn that sucked in analyst after analyst until there was no one left to upgrade. Thats quite a change from the unloved state a little over a year
Investing, because when retail is weak people assume the whole market is weak too. Something that happened again today with the dow falling 65 points. Yes and nasdaq,. 09 . Not a lot of retail on the nasdaq, therefore trying to figure out what the heck is going on in retail and determine whether its right that this group should be having such a big impact as a whole. These are two different questions and they need to be addressed separately. Lets deal with the proximate cause, the elephant in the room. The very poor numbers from best buy. There was a time when best buy would have absolutely killed to have the kind of shortfall reported this morning, with shares barely down,. 9 . And some softer Gross Margins but not deadly. This shortfall sent best buy down a staggering 10. 74, nearly 29 , wasnt just any miss. It was a miss that came on top of a remarkable turnaround. A turn that sucked in analyst after analyst until there was virtually no one left to upgrade. Thats quite a change from
Improving quality for health care. But to the extent we want it to happened to make sure the incentives are right but for decades they have not been aligned. There is an opportunity here to save Small Businesses a lot of money to grow more rapidly. Just very briefly defied the incentives. For years the primary symptom is that it is such a powerful point if you look at one mans cost or another mans revenues of the cost that you pay if you compare our performance versus other industrialized countries you spend 60 percent more than other countries but you dont see better quality measures or outcome so the incentives the opportunity to modify those incentives by the act and the contract being that it encourages is profound but what you see is hospitalization come down but that means they glad of business and that is a real challenge to say that is not a good thing but it can accommodate the extra volume with those spee mori efficient if they become more efficient than this model can work.
Because the matching is really a big deal. Its going to help them save money and i its going to help them get a better quality outcome. Very much so. Youre going to have to get that data down in such a way its more consumer global so people make the right choices. Sometimes you get, present us with the best choice but to cant drive us there. Thats a big chunk. Thats something that employees are also a bit concerned about is privacy as well, as we get more data and start using it more as the nsa incident has shown. Were all very vulnerable having that data out there. I would like to follow up on the point youre making. When you think about quality and cost, the two are related and if are going to attack the underlying challenges of making health care both affordable and high in quality you cant just took out the health care level. Have to go down to what hospitals and doctors are doing. We are seeing some encouraging results. One of our ncos, their physicians have understood the economi
To pay for increases in premiums. We are having tradeoffs and what we would invest in and infrastructure education, and art. Our Public Employees have not had raises and five years. It is challenging every sector of our economy. Marilyn, it is not good to see that medicare costs are way down. That is not subject to the same Market Forces. It is no time to rest on our laurels. We have brookings, Bipartisan Policy Center, they have pressed that now is the time to keep moving forward and not expect that trend will continue. To get ahead and keep moving down the path of cost control. From our perspective, the blues after the economic downturn we did see a slowing in the growth of overall costs in medicine. What we believe, 18 of gdp is health care. The untaxed a prediction is that it will be increased by 2025. Now is the time to impact that curve. We have seen a spike again. I agree, it is time to really focus on, after the implementation as part of the implementation of the Affordable Car