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What a special election in Mass. means to health reform

by: CHARLES FIEGL Jan 18, 2010

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) predicts the fate of health care reform hinges on Tuesday's special election in Massachusetts to fill the seat of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. The polling blog Five Thirty Eight scores the race as a toss-up between Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Martha Coakley. Political strategists say the situation isn't as dire as Frank claims.

Health reform update

by: CHARLES FIEGL Jan 14, 2010

Keeping an eye on health reform, Democratic leaders are moving closer toward a final bill to put up for a vote in the House and Senate.

What's being done to health reform behind closed doors?

by: Grant Huang Jan 14, 2010

All's been quiet on the health reform front for a couple of weeks, ever since the Senate passed its version of a reform bill on Christmas Eve. As we said earlier, after both houses in Congress pass their versions of a bill, a conference committee is formed to merge both versions into a single piece of legislation acceptable to all. And by "all" I mean a majority in both houses.

Lack of an appointed CMS administrator causing concern

by: CHARLES FIEGL Jan 13, 2010

Every couple of months, a reporter from a major news organization writes the "there's no one running Medicare" story. On Jan. 12, The New York Times published such a story about the lack of a CMS administrator.

Can checklists help you do your job? Gawande says yes

by: CHARLES FIEGL Jan 8, 2010

Wednesday night, I had the privilege to stand along with a couple hundred people and listen to Atul Gawande talk about his new book "The Checklist Manifesto" at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. Gawande is not only an author, but a surgeon in Boston and director of the World Health Organization's Global Challenge for Safer Surgical Care. His recent article in the New Yorker on Medicare spending last year was said to have been required reading in the White House.

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