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June 2, 2010

It’s so ironic that it could almost pass for satire.  Some in Congress want to use a food safety bill currently making its way through the legislative process as a … Continued

March 25, 2010

The op-ed piece by Deborah Peel, who heads the Coalition for Patient Privacy, that appeared in The Wall Street Journal this week received an inordinate amount of attention.  That’s because … Continued

March 9, 2010

In order to boost public support for its health reform push, the White House added a new wrinkle to the Senate-passed reform bill it has, by and large, embraced.  The … Continued

March 4, 2010

There’s an inherent problem with most news media coverage of the healthcare industry.  The companies, the products, the processes and the issues surrounding them are so complex that it’s difficult … Continued

September 18, 2009

Chairman Baucus deserves to be commended for his steadfast efforts to develop health reform legislation that has the potential to gain strong majority support in the United States Senate.  Health … Continued

August 20, 2009

Long before congressional committees began debating health reform legislation, Ascension Health, a Healthcare Leadership Council member and the nation’s largest non-profit healthcare system, had developed a set of principles on … Continued

August 18, 2009

For those of us who strongly want a good health reform bill to become law this year, it was dispiriting to say the least to hear a member of Congress … Continued

August 10, 2009

President Obama has rightly and frequently cited the Cleveland Clinic as one of the health providers in this country that provides the kind of high-quality, cost-effective care that should be … Continued

August 3, 2009

With all of the media coverage devoted to the controversial aspects of health reform, most notably the proposal to create a government-run health plan and the possible tax increases that … Continued

July 16, 2009

Those of us who were around during the contentious debates over President Clinton’s health reform proposal recall all too well why the White House was unsuccessful in getting reform passed.  … Continued