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Iceland says bye to Mickey D’s

The Big Mac, long a symbol of globalization, has become the latest victim of this tiny island nation's overexposure to the world financial crisis. Iceland's three McDonald's restaurants – all in the capital Reykjavik – will close next weekend, as the franchise owner gives in to falling profits caused by the collapse in the Icelandic krona. “The economic situation has just made it too expensive for us,” Magnus Ogmundsson, the managing director of Lyst Hr., McDonald's franchise holder in Iceland, told the Associated Press by telephone on Monday

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Iceland says bye to Mickey D’s

Report: Current health care system wastes up to $850 billion annually

According to a report by Thomson Reuters, the American health care system wastes between $505 billion and $850 billion every year, which is up to a third of the nation's total health care costs. “America's health care system is indeed hemorrhaging billions of dollars, and the opportunities to slow the fiscal bleeding are substantial,” said the report, which was completed by Thomson Reuters' vice president for health care analytics.

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Report: Current health care system wastes up to $850 billion annually