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Friday, May 31, 2013

Health Care

News                                                                                                                             
Politico | Obamacare health exchange sales strategy: Choices
About 90 percent of people who enter the health reform law’s exchanges next year will have at least five different insurance company options to choose from, according to new data released by the Obama administration on Thursday.

Econ Comments & Analysis                                                                                            
WSJ | A Welcome Boost in the Race for New Antibiotics
The members of the "I hate the pharmaceutical industry" club must be beside themselves. And the anti-big-government folks are probably not terribly happy either.
Washington Times | Stuck behind the Medicaid eight ball
When setting up Medicare as a parallel “earned-benefits” program to Social Security in 1965, Congress tacked onto the legislation — like an insurance rider — a secondary provision to help existing state programs provide medical assistance to a very small population: America’s most helpless and destitute.