But those estimates are primarily calculating the increased utilization that comes from covering an estimated 32 million more people, not the inflationary bump that comes when people are insulated from the price of care.
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But Gladwell also shows how people bump up against the limits of their ability to predict success.
Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- This may be the new hip-hop career track: write a few hit tracks and then develop a line of headphones to help people bump to them at full volume.
When it came time for new digs at Pixar, the animation studio he bought in 1986, Jobs wanted a huge building around a central atrium to encourage people to bump into one another.
Following Hurricane Hugo, there was a bump in chainsaw injuries as people returned to their homes to rebuild.
"All else being equal, we give attractive people a little bump, " Prof.
The logic behind Bayer's (otc: BAYZY - news - people) upward bump goes something like this: Cipro is the drug most often used to treat anthrax.
" Put smart people together and "they bump into each other and you get serendipity.
As you know, migration is driven by demography, as dramatically rising numbers of young people in the developing world bump up against an ageing and shrinking developed world.
"To see that 33% bump" in entrepreneurship, "people would need to get a plan on the exchanges that is just as good as what they could get from employers, " says Susan Gates, director of the Kauffman-RAND Institute.
The chart features a prominent bump, toward the low end of the knowledge spectrum, where people feel qualified to dish on a given subject, despite their relative lack of wisdom.
"If you have one hundred people and one person is out, it isn't even a speed bump, " adds Ted Clark, executive director of the Center for Family Business at Northeastern University.
That quality also made it easy for Apple to bump the software over to Intel's (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) processors last year--setting the stage for Apple to offer software allowing users to run both Windows and its own operating system on their machines.
Some people carry genes that make them so prone to depression that almost any degree of hardship will bump them into depression.
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