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Hey, Known Spender!
By J.D. Kleinke The most remarkable thing about Health 2.0 this time around, at least for me? The growing number, and percentage, of attendees old enough to get a reference like “Hey, Known Spender.”...
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Deja Association: The Republican Health Reform Idea Hiding in Obamacare
By JD KLEINKE If the Administration wants to make good on President Obama’s election night promise to work across the aisle to solve the nation’s problems, a good place to start would be how it...
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Life Support and Taxes
By J.D. Kleinke If the devil is in the details, we got the motherlode this past week as to how the most incendiary part of President Obama’s health reform will actually work when it launches next...
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The IPAB Bomb
By J.D. KLEINKE How’s this for a bitter pill? For Republicans looking for cures for Medicare spending growth, one of the best places to look is one of their least favorites: in the legislative...
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Praying For Obamacare to Fail
By J.D. KLEINKE “Make it work.” This advice on health reform to Democrats earlier this month illustrates that President Clinton knows what the opponents of Obamacare also know: success is the best...
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HIV Messenger Baby
By J.D. KLEINKE “Your baby did not die for nothing,” Rebekah said, looking up at the monitor so Kim would not see her tears. “Your baby was a messenger to us.” This is how a friend who specializes in...
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Ready For O’Ryancare?
By J.D. KLEINKE This is how sexy the chatter gets over cocktails at health policy wonk-ins in Washington. This is how sexy the chatter gets over cocktails at health policy wonk-ins in Washington. “No...
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Combat Medicine’s ‘Golden Hour’
By J.D. Kleinke WASHINGTON — While the news swells this week with sad and angry retrospectives on the war in Iraq, it is worth noting that the tremendous human costs of that war would have been much...
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Pandora’s Pillbox
By J.D. KLEINKE WASHINGTON — Oral contraceptives may be small, but they are proving to be tough pills for a vast number of Americans to swallow. Last week, the Sunlight Foundation reported that the...
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Healthcare.com Would Have Worked Better
By J.D. Kleinke Is this any way to build a railroad? By now you’ve heard that the “Obamacare exchanges” did not launch on October 1 so much as stumble out into public view, barely able to crawl. Three...
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