, they get incentivized and rewarded.oes not save them money, then the doctors get penalized. stuart: and how do you judge, is it cost per patient per lifetime that the doctor is judged on? >> so what's happening here is that doctors are entering into contracts with insurance companies and they're given what's called a global budget. and they get a set amount of money to take care of a patient. if they look after those patients economically and save money they're rewarded. if they do not look after patients and spend money excessively and doctors are penalized and they're tracking it. stuart: that's interesting. let's suppose you've got a universe of 200 patients for one doctor. we'll give you x number of dollars to treat 200 people. you go above the dollars you're going to get penalized and come out of your pocket. keep below that number, the total cost of 200. you're incentivized and keep the difference. >> that's how it works and obviously with this kind of pros and cons, it incentivizes doctors to look for appropriate

motion of intent recognizing that the planning department develop a comprehensive approach to incentivizing these cultural resources city wide and we're going to work with the hpc on this proposal. they would like to bring the proposal to the planning commission and for your comments and forward to the board of supervisors and that concludes my presentation unless you have questions. >> could you help clarify for me and the bank building and beautiful location. i am happy to see movement there. are you saying that the commission asked them to replace the electronic original sign on the building or the one on the adjacent property? >> yes the current neon sign on the property was constructed outside of the period of significance meaning after 1935. it's believed that underneath that sign the stone has the name and i believe the hi bernia savings and loan bank. the commission recognized that sign has been there for quite some time and felt either one or the other should be restored but since we don't know what the condition of the original sign is behind there that the project sponsor should

that would incentivize them to do something, either not to obey their program or implement the program, that way the burden is back on the big box. i am concerned with the $500, because bigger companies can absorb that and what we're trying to do is helping the small business and we might end up shooting them in a foot because a company within the half-mile radius might not care and the small business would be wiped out. >> commissioner o'brien? >> do they have any idea of how many entities opt to simply pay this money? and by the way, when they do opt to pay, what takes care of the recycling generated by them, if anything? >> at this point it's actually relatively few. the traders joe at masonic was, but i think they are not any longer. i am not sure what they are doing. they may be redeeming in-store. you can redeem in-store, meaning that you take it back and some stores kind of do that quietly. in other words, they don't put out a big sign and you can quietly redeem in-store and avoid the $100. it's a relatively small number in the city. i'm not sure if it's been high enough is to m

pushing jobs offshore and we're going to incentivize pushing pulling jobs back it passed the house of representatives it passed it got to the u.s. senate and the republicans filibustered it and that's why harry reid needs to change the filibuster at the beginning of the year so they can so that we can stop this republican obstruction all the democrat republicans controlling the house makes it a little problematic elouise in dens solem pennsylvania or is that how do you how do you set the city there. and then fail i'm ok great and thank you for calling you want to talk about privacy. well not private heath to effect going. but with the government wanting to tell women whether they can or cannot have abortion . i don't hear as a matter of birth control antibody value and that the government has the right to tell a man. to have access to me or not the government doesn't kotchman. just as much responsible. as women eloise very eloquent point thank you for calling and making appreciate your doing that and i remember the comment that was made i forget by whom i might have been. might have b

so broad and they say because we are so heavily incentivized. usually they don't save themselves. the other doctors are heavily incentivized, but there is malpractice concerns and other things they have the answers. a lot of the doctors have the answers on how to address the medical mistakes. i find doctors almost every week that say i'm getting tax messages and e-mails from my superiors to do operations, and i feel like i'm doing the right thing for my patient. i'm doing all i can. they don't like that. that isn't the type of medicine, that is in the profession that they got into. and i think that we need to start thinking about how patience can get the best options by eliminating these heavy incentives. but they are a superior way to reconstruct the best to beat kroger's after a breast removal because the local plastic surgeons don't do it that way. they do it another way. the research and the literature clearly shows. it's still a standard of care. they are not going to get sued for giving it. but there are wide variations. in my own field an

breakthroughs and took us back through history the prize prizes that will incentivize. one cool prize we had, a philanthropist i s valley saw the b.p. oil spill that was going on and it was going on and on and on and on and we literally thought, what can we do in and james cameron said, why not look at cleaning up oil spills so we held a competition andaid, for the last 21 years from valdez to b.p. oil the best anyone had done was 1,100 gallons a minute to clean up. >> you offered a milln to improve on that? >>guest: she offered $1.4 million to improve on that and you figure, what could $1.4 million do? this has been multibillion dollar industry, oil spills have been going on for a long-term and the technology has been stagnant. we had 350 teams preristered and we narrowed it to top ten and last year seven out of the ten teams that competed dbled the industry standard and the winning team qurupled the industry standard so they nor you going into production and hopefully we will reinvent how to clean up oil spills and it shoc how a million or $10 million can reinvent an

believes this president doesn't to go over the cliff, also, i believe that republicans are now incentivizedgo over the cliff, because they get two-for-one spending cuts and i believe that president is maintaining am bi ambiguity so s don't reaction. >> i believe there is a substantial truth, simply, obama, why should he deal, he won the election, he told us that. lou: well, hell he is president not emperor. >> check with him. even if we go over the cliff, he gets more revenue than he does if he does a deal, and he blames the republicans, and looking at polls today, by 2 to 1 they blame the republicans 92 let me how is poll that shows you, main figure in any future calculation here. in fact is we're going to look at that a quick break but this -- i will show you doug schoan, is support for john boehner for republican view, and a president who is close to using up his political capital on the fiscal cliff, day with us, we'll show you the evidence. it's tt time o. time for citi price rewind. because your daughter really wants that pink castle thing. and y realldon't want to pay more than you h

and also incentivize the sharing is maybe a interim step as we move forward. and i think what i'm seeing is we need to have a long-term process with certain benchmarks along the way so there is a sense that we are moving forward. so anyway, i thank you very much for, you're doing, and i yield back my time. >> chair recognizes the incoming vice chair of the subcommittee on communications and technology, the gentleman from ohio, mr. latta. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman, and thank you very much for conducting the hearing today and, again, to all the commissioners for appearing before us today. i have an explanation from cisco why spectrum above 5 gigahertz is better than even the white spaces, and i request unanimous consent to submit it for the record. >> without objection. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. commissioner pai, the statute identifies an additional 195 megahertz of spectrum above 5 gigahertz for unlicensed use. in light of that, does it make sense to jeopardize the auction and the public safety network by pulling out for unlicensed use of

i do thinkhis republicans are now incentivized to go over the cliff, and seek sequest raising sequestration in force. it gives republicans want they want, two-for-one spending cuts to tax hikes it gets intresting. >> it is, some of the commentary i've seen, suggestions that the president i talking about more x increases than spending cuts, that is -- >> 2 to 1. >> yeah contrary to the original agreement. lou: well imagine that. president turning things on its head, john silvio thank you. >> thank you. lou: and straightening us out. looking now at "new york times" bestseller list, i thought this week was really, newsworthy. topping hard cover nonfix list is a -- nonfiction list is a book called killing kennedy, by a guy named bill oriley, in second place, thomas jefferson by thoma tom meachum, and then t o'reilly again, killing lincoln. not bad. up next, fighting intensifies in syria. continuing to back assad, and the list of suspicious dealings at hsbc is rising, one whistle lower tells us how he was silenced and fired for reporting what was criminal activity at hsbc, by the way $1.9 billio

breakthroughs and took us back through history the prize prizes that will incentivize.ize we had, a philanthropist in s valley saw the b.p. oil spill that was going on and it was going on and on and on and on and we literally thought, what can we do in and james cameron said, why not look at cleaning up oil spills so we held a competition and sd, for the last 21 years from valdez to b.p. oil the best anyone had done was 1,100 gallons a minute to clean up. >> you offered a million to improve on that? >>guest: she offered $1.4 million to improve on that and you figure, what could $1.4 million do? this has been multibillion dollar industry, oil spills have been going on for a long-term and the technology has been stagnant. we had 350 teams preregistered and we narrowed it to top ten and last year seven out of the ten teams that competed doubled the industry standard and the winning team quadrupled the industry standard so they nor you going into production and hopefully we will reinvent how to clean up oil spills and it shocks how a million or $10 milln can reinvent an ind

cheryl: you say what we are doing as poverty nation as you colet, incentivized poverty is draining theabout entitlement programs, welfare, do you think we have any chance of addressing those issues in the fiscal cliff debate? >> in the fiscal cliff, no. it will take strong leadership that has yet to set forward. in my life, i would love to see the ending of all these poverty programs transformed into job creation, making people go to work or else they are on their own. liz: you are a fascinating voice in this debate. thank you very much. dennis: he is my new contrarian hero. that was a great interview. christmas is starting early for congress. the house of representatives is homeward bound. cheryl: they are leaving town despite the fact we are nowhere close to a deal on the fiscal cliff. what is going on, rich edson? "imus in the morning" rich: house republicans will host the events with small business leaders in their districts and highlight what republicans say will be the economic damage small-business from raising income-tax rates on families earning $250,000 a year. president obam

they incentivized people which i don't want to call is a forcing. but you're highly lly incentiv. you hear me? >> it got very low. >> i've never heard that in my life. >> i got you now. >> no problem. understandable. one study shows we spend $100 billion on lost revenue from 401(k) deductions. denmark had a similar plan but said people would save the same whether they had the deduction or not. are you in favor of ending that? >> i'm for people having an equal playing field. what you're pointing out are the distorpgss caused by the fact when you offer certain tax deductions, everyone should have the same tax rate. but you already have 401(k), you should be allowed to get what you play into it and play by those rules. it should be for new participants that the rules change. right now the problem is you look at something like medicare where spending per person has doubled over the last ten years. that's a government program that needs to be curtailed. when the government comes in, you get a worse deal, higher cost. the only thing they come back with is we need higher tax revenue. >>

our proposal guides the location of bicycle parking for indoor spaces and we would incentivize bicycle parking as an active use. bicycle parking on the ground floor is considered active year so long as the space as direct access from the sidewalk and visible also from the sidewalk. and it would also limit the combined lobby and bicycle space to no more than 40' or 25% of the lot frontage. our proposal will also include a no zoning administrator bulletin, to provide further specifications for the design and layout of bicycle parking. this is again an example that the department worked closely with sfmta to create really simple diagrams that depict these requirements. an example here is showing the required distance between racks and also the distance to a curb or wall. another incentive offered is a line conversion of auto parking to bike parking. existing bike parking requirements also allow such conversion, for class 1 parking is required. however, this provision in the code does not specify any details and therefore remains unclear and really hard to implement. our proposal would pro

, usually they don't say themselves, the other doctors are heavily incentivized or there is malpractice concerns and other things. they have the answers but a lot of the doctors out there having answers on how to address this problem, but i hear doctors almost every week that say i'm getting text messages and e-mails from my superiors to do more operations and i feel like i'm doing the right thing for my patient and i'm doing all that i can. they don't like that. that's not the type of medicine and not the type are or professionally went into. i think we need to start thinking about how patients can get the best options by eliminating these heavy incentives, under referred. there are patients that i met as a resident that were not told that there's a superior way to reconstruct a after a removal because the local plastic surgeons don't do it that way. they do it another way. the research in the literature clearly show its superior. is still the standard of care and they are not going to get sued for doing it that there but there are these wide variations. in my own field of pancreas sur

has to do with corporate governance laws for incentives and structures that don't require -- that incentivizeanagers to make long term decisions rather than maximizing just the quarterly shareholders' profits. >> did you see the incentives that could be changed to emphasize smallness rather than bigness? >> absolutely, and i thinking the -- a lot of the department of commerce is programmed to help small and medium sized businesses. there is the best -- i took 50% of the jobs in manufacturing are small and medium sized companies, and small companies have the advantage in not offering because they do things they can't afford with automation, making niche products, rooted in the communities, and the reason i'm passionate against the attacks on commerce is because the -- some people say, well, we don't -- we can just eliminate all of that. that's subsidies, government assistance. well, the government, the people who needs the government, government help in a world where other countries are subsidizing multinational corporations are precisely the small and medium sized businesses so there's a numb

in a way that is timely by trying to figure out more incentivizing ways to do this and also incentivizehe sharing is maybe an interim step. what i'm seeing is a need to have a long-term process with certain benchmarks along the way so there is a sense we are moving forward. thank you for everything you're doing and i yield back my time. >> the chair recognizes incoming vice chair, gentleman from ohio, mr. latta. >> tmx for conducting the hearing today and all the commissioners. i have an explanation even the white spaces and iraq's for the record. >> the statue identifies both 5-k drivers for unlicensed use. in light of that, does it make sense to jeopardize the option safety network to pull him licensees to broadcast and send spectrum through licensed wireless broadband? in the thank you. as i stated, i'm bullish on life used in the van for the reasons i expect are identified in for the record has spoken with cisco and other players who have worked on and help develop super wi-fi technologies compatible with five gigahertz, which i mentioned earlier. the big reasons i'm bullish is beca

>> incentivize businesses to grow and invest in this country.tivize businesses to take on that extra employee, build that extra factory. right now we don't have that. we continue to keep businesses sidelines. they have billions of dollars that could be put to work. we're arguing over $800 billion in tax increases. >> i can't argue with that. you're right. i mean, you hit the nail on the head on that one. >> thank you, folks. appreciate it. we're going to head to the bell here with the market -- let me take a quick look. kind of holding steady with a gain of about nine points. when we come back, ivanka trump is here to explain how she's preparing her businesses for a. fall off the fiscal cliff. >>> then after the bell, wealthy homeowners are racing to sell their properties before the end of the year. it's all to avoid much higher taxes if we go over the cliff. that's coming up later on the "closing bell." and we're lighting the christmas tree here at big board today. stay tuned. if we want to improve our schools... ... what should we invest in? m

starbucks or formula retail, but then having said that, i would love to see if we were able to incentivize for mobile truck operators to come into areas that would make life easier for them and they looked at the bottom line and said if we can get into business next month, maybe we can bring traffic to this area? can i make a recommendation to look at that as a third idea put forward with this? >> to fast-track? >> fast-tracking or something and look into that. >> i think what i would like to do is have -- i mean, one, that would require some budgetary requirement. because to do a study and an analysis to that would require some money for somebody to do research and analysis into those areas. i would have to research as to whether the city would provide that funding to be able to do that. as you know, our budget doesn't allow for those kinds of things. >> so you think it's maybe an idea to look at down the road, but not to be include here? >> i think, if the 50' element moves through, i think my sense is one would have to see what the result of that is. it may push -- that restriction may

police officers are incentivized in their pay packet to conduct small, petty drug arrests.r racking up 40, 50, 60 arrests for jacking somebody up against the side of the liquor store than they ever will if they research one crime, one murder, one rape. they might spend a whole month on that. >> that is an incentive structure that's changeable. >> it is like it is now. the cops are living in a world where they are incentivized to wait in their ray yo car and wait for petty arrests. >> i live in the border area of southern new mexico. the way the drug war is fought convinced me to write this book, "too high to fail." my next-door neighbor was a retiree growing 13 plants. i wake up to helicopter. i thought i was in trouble for some petition i had signed. there is a massive squad carting this old guy out to jail. a year later, the mayor of columbus, new mexico is a card-carrying cartel member to facilitate the killing down there. as well-intentioned as law enforcement is, most law enforcement i dealt with in the course of researching this book are trying to do their best. as lo

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go back to the question that marty posed earlier, which is in effect this idea that in order to incentivize people making the decision to seek treatment that the fear of a felony conviction or possible state prison sentence could play a positive role. you talk to a lot of people charged with crimes who are trying to make the decision of what decision to make, what is the primary motivation you see coming from them. how do they decision make on dispositions related to drug possession as a felony? >> i think that for a lot of people it does have to be a personal decision and they have to come to it themselves. i don't think they necessarily are thinking about whether whether or not they'd be convicted of a felony or misdemeanor. i will also say that sometimes you'll meet someone in county jail and they're ready to get treatment, they're ready to get help and because of the lack of resources, they have to sit in county jail and wait for a bed to open up or wait for there to be an opportunity for them to access treatment. and one of the things that this bill would do ideally would be to divert

designation doesn't seem to be a good fit for these types of properties and they're looking for ways to incentivize by tax abatement or property processing, priority processing or some other way the commission and the board of supervisors can make it easier for the businesses and cultural events remain in place. >> okay. thanks. >> thank you. >> i'm sorry commissioner sugaya. >> just a comment. i think that the discussion that's been going on and i think ideas they mainly proposed by commissioner martinez was along the lines if there was a possibility having some kind of designation or recognition or some process -- not necessarily for properties alone, but for other businesses or whatever, and then to try to tie those somehow to some kind of incentives or things that don't currently exist and i think that's where the issue is. kind of like how do you designate and recognize and what are the incentives afterwards? or protections too? >> the board of appeals did meet last night. it was actually the first meeting where we had five members and commissioner honda was approved last week and had the firs