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Friday, February 17, 2012

Health Care

News                                                                                                                             
National Journal | HHS Postpones New Super-Specific Billing Codes
Medicare will delay the launch of a new set of medical billing codes that will change the way doctors document their encounters with patients.

Econ Comments & Analysis                                                                                            
Politico | HHS mandate flouts religious freedom
There’s nothing more fundamental to American exceptionalism than our First Freedom — our freedom of religion.
WSJ | The Myth of Runaway Health Spending
New data show that health spending over the past several years has been normalizing toward the rate of general inflation, rather than growing higher and higher, as had been the case almost continuously since the 1970s.

Blogs                                                                                                                             
Heritage Foundation | Building a Better Medicare Program: The Burr–Coburn Proposal
Senators Richard Burr (R–NC) and Tom Coburn (R–OK) have just unveiled a bold Medicare reform proposal based on the free-market forces of choice and competition. The Senators’ proposal adds further momentum to the effort to reform and improve America’s largest and most challenging entitlement program.