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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Health Care

News                                                                                                                             
MSNBC | House moves to repeal tax filing requirement
Both parties say provision in health care law would create paperwork nightmare.
CNN Money | Health care: Big change in drug costs for seniors
Under health care reform, consumers will see several new changes to their insurance coverage this year, the most significant of which affects the nation's 47 million Medicare beneficiaries.
WSJ | Bills Push Medicare Data Access
Two senators, a Republican and a Democrat, are pushing legislation to overturn a 1979 court injunction that bars the public from seeing what individual physicians earn from Medicare.

Econ Comments                                                                                                             
National Journal | Leave Politics Out of Hospital Infections, Berwick Says
Politics cannot help the United States improve its health care system, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Donald Berwick said on Wednesday.
Cato Institute | Healthcare for All! Unless You're Fat
Discriminatory healthcare is the new reality. An NHS health trust now proposes to stop sending obese people and smokers for certain operations.

Blogs                                                                                                                             
Heritage Foundation | Yet Another New Obamacare Bureaucracy
Proponents of the new law argue that its stringent insurance regulations will help consumers, but these new regulations also threaten some existing employer-sponsored plan arrangements.