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Health policy
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OIG: Are we ready for a flu pandemic?
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General has released two reports assessing just how prepared Americans…
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Bloomberg explains all five House, Senate plans
Bloomberg’s Kristin Jensen and Nicole Gaouette have perused all five proposed health care reform plans, each originating from a different…
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Calif. malpractice cap: Model or cautionary tale?
The San Francisco Chronicle‘s Victoria Colliver reports on how a discussion of a Health Policy-related push for medical malpractice reform…
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Bloggers try to connect Baucus plan, WellPoint
An analysis by blogger Kevin Conner over at LittleSis seems to point to connections between Montana Sen. Max Baucus’ plan…
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H1N1 will challenge public health policymakers
On his Cold Truth blog, Andrew Schneider questions some H1N1-related public health decisions while acknowledging the difficulties policymakers are bound…
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Post-speech reading: Reaction to Obama’s remarks
This is a quick, by no means comprehensive, sampling of what’s being said about President Obama’s speech on health care…
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Seniors could be reform’s largest wild card
Michael Booth and Karen E. Crummy of The Denver Post report that, with AARP effectively neutralized by fire from both…
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More Health Policy myth Whac-A-Mole
As part of his Health Care Fact Check series, the Cleveland Plain Dealer‘s Stephen Koff looks into the theory that…
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Documentary tonight examines health care system
The documentary “Money-Driven Medicine,” based on a 2006 book of the same name by Maggie Mahar, will air tonight on…
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CJR: Where did ‘death panels’ come from?
AHCJ president Trudy Lieberman, writing for CJR.org, traced rumors of “death panels” in the Obama reform plan back to radio…