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Health Care Outlook Not Improving

By ROBERT LASZEWSKI Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mon) released his much-anticipated healthcare proposal Wednesday morning. The next big test for a health care bill in 2009 (notice that I did not call it health care reform) will come in Senate Finance....
September 21, 2009 in Reform, Robert Laszewski, Senate, Senate Finance Committee | Permalink | Comments (58)

Senate Healthcare Bill Amendment Allocates Your Tax Dollars To Quacks

By DR. VAL With healthcare costs spiraling out of control, and major rationing efforts under consideration - can we really afford to allow purveyors of pseudoscience to use up scarce Medicare/Medicaid resources? It’s hard to imagine that Obama’s administration would...
August 4, 2009 in Comparative Effectiveness Research, Senate | Permalink | Comments (21)