Spend Matters Site Round-Up and Other News

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The New Strangest Job in Health Care – Porn Movie Condom Inspector
The porn industry is up in “arms” over a new ordinance approved this week by the Los Angeles City Council that would require every actor in an erotic film to wear a condom so as to protect against the spread of STDs. So controversial is this measure that the porn industry, which makes approximately 90 percent of its films in Los Angeles, is threatening to leave the city and take its business elsewhere…

Dollars and Sense
Physician Pay: A Big Driver of Health Care Costs?
With all the discussion in this country about the 1% versus the 99%, it is a good time to address a reader’s question about physician pay and how this affects health care costs. A recent McKinsey study states that in other developed countries, generalists earn double the income of the average worker, while specialists earn 2.7 times the average worker.  In the U.S., primary care physicians earn five times more than the average worker and specialists earn ten times more than the average worker…

Butter is not better.
Paula Deen Pitch Hard to Swallow
Celebrity chef Paula Deen’s decision to become a pitchwoman for a diabetes drug is leaving a bad taste in the mouths of Madison Avenue branding experts. Ms. Deen, a Food Network star known for her fat-laden recipes, disclosed on Tuesday that she has had Type 2 diabetes for about three years and that she has signed on to be the spokeswoman for Novo Nordisk AS, which makes diabetes drugs such as Victoza…

From Spend Matters
5 Reasons to Attend Commodity Edge:A Spend Matters/MetalMiner Event in March 2012 (Part 1)
Someone asked me this week: “Why should I go to Commodity Edge when I’m already committed to a bunch of events this Spring?” I responded that the event, taking place March 19th and 20th at the Intercontinental at Chicago, O’Hare, is probably not for everyone in procurement (especially those entirely focused on areas like P2P systems). But I also noted the content and takeaways would be absolutely invaluable for those in a category/commodity management or sourcing role, not to mention those that they report to…

From SpendMatters UK/Europe
Local Government Procurement – a good news story from Hampshire
We’ve got a lot of readers in UK central government, and we cover that sector pretty thoroughly. One of our objectives for 2012 however is to feature more from the devolved public sector – local authorities, health, police, education…etc.  And if you are already a reader from any of those sectors, we’d be delighted if you tell your friends and colleagues about Spend Matters. Anyway, to kick off our coverage for 2012, we have a positive story from Hampshire, where a collaborative venture has paid off for a number of councils…

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