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Doctor’s offices consumed by insurance hassles
Tamara Keith of the public radio program “Marketplace” went into a doctor’s office to find out where the money’s being…
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Parikh defends Emanuel of ‘death panel’ fame
Pediatrician and blogger Rahul Parikh published an defense of Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an Obama adviser and the right wing’s latest…
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Markets offer examples to improve costs, quality
In a New York Times op-ed, Atul Gawande, Donald Berwick, Elliott Fisher and Mark McClellan discuss a recent meeting of…
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Insurance industry positioned to profit from reform
In BusinessWeek, Chad Terhune and Keith Epstein write that major insurance companies have already succeeded in defining the debate over…
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More fact checking on health care reform
The Associated Press’ Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar explains the proposed counseling about end-of-life care that’s contained in the health care reform legislation.…
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Making sense of Health Policy rumors
The New York Times‘ Robert Pear and David M. Herszenhorn do their best to help regular folks understand the increasingly…
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Post documents self-referred, in-house scans
The Washington Post‘s Shankar Vedantam explores the well-documented phenomenon in which physicians who own scanners are far, far more likely…
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Editorial writers discuss Health Policy coverage
The Washington Post Writers Group, in its online Editorial Roundtable, discusses how editorial writers have been handling the health care…
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Emotion used on both sides of health care debate
Newsy.com provides a round up of the debate over health care, finding that fear is fueling both sides of the…
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Pew: Health care again tops week’s media coverage
The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, which monitors 55 news outlets and about 1,300 stories across all…