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Senate Compromise on Health Care Reform: Political Genius?

By JOE FLOWER Democrat Roland Burris, the sudden senator who replaced Barack Obama in that august body, has now joined those who are pledging to filibuster any bill that does not have a "public...

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Convergence and the Death of the Public Option

By Tim Greaney So maybe the two parties are coming together on health reform after all. Last night we learned that after days of “secret talks” among the “gang of ten” the Democrats have reached...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 7 hours ago • 0 responses
Making it up as they go along

By Matthew Holt So today’s news is the the gang of ten have come up with something. (If you haven’t been following along, the gang of ten are the five “liberal” Democrats and the five DINOs asked by...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 1 day ago • 0 responses
Tags: jeff goldsmith, matthew holt, policy, policy/politics
Making (sh)it up as they go along

By Matthew Holt So today’s news is the the gang of ten have come up with something. (If you haven’t been following along, the gang of ten are the five “liberal” Democrats and the five DINOs asked by...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 1 day ago • 0 responses
Tags: jeff goldsmith, matthew holt, policy, policy/politics
Pelosi’s Hidden Tort Bomb -- an Alternative View

by Charles Silver & David A. Hyman We once thought Democrats would accept tort reform to win Republicans’ support for national health care legislation. Now, however, Democrats have dispensed with...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 3 days ago • 0 responses
Abortion Should Not Imperil Health Care Reform

By Melissa Reed

 The House vote to establish near-universal health-care coverage came at a steep cost to women. That cost, issued as an amendment by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), eliminates abortion...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 3 days ago • 0 responses
Genetic Testing, Fact or Fiction: You Be the Judge

By MICHAEL MILLENSON Which of these two events is fact and which is fiction? Organizations representing employers and health plans call for a moratorium on implementation of the Genetic Information...

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Spotlight on Health 2.0: Clinical Groupware from SF '09

Every week we bring you a video from the world of Health 2.0. This week we're featuring a clip focusing on Clinical Groupware and the Next Generation of Clinician-Patient Interaction tools, as seen...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 4 days ago • 0 responses
2009: A Year of Surprises and Change for the EHR Technology Market

By by DAVID C. KIBBE and BRIAN KLEPPER

 "Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits."
 All's Well That Ends Well...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 4 days ago • 0 responses
Four grumpy lefties with Laura Flanders

By Matthew Holt Maggie Mahar, Jon Cohn, Jon Nichols and Olga Pierce hang out with Laura Flanders on the amusingly titled GRITtv and discuss how screwed up the politics of health care are in the...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 7 days ago • 0 responses
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