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Little-known AMA group has outsized influence on Medicare payments

By Joe Eaton and Joe Eaton

November 7, 2010

Early this month, a group of 29 doctors gathered in a modern conference room at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, a few blocks from Lake Shore Driv

Medicare: An entitlement out of control

By David Nather

November 7, 2010

If Congress had known in 1965 how expensive Medicare would become, it might not have approved the program in the first place. So Lyndon John

Party machines, lobbyists and special interests: Part five

By Shannon Feaster, Nathaniel Heller, Annys Shin, Marianne Holt and Russ Tisinger

March 2, 2000

For months, disarray was the hallmark of Vice President Al Gore's campaign. Last October 6, he moved his campaign to Nashville from Washingt

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Part II: A troubled model for reform in Mexico

By Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab

November 15, 2010

A troubled model for reform in Mexico

House committee moves to allow suits for military medical malpractice

By Nick Schwellenbach

October 9, 2009

Congress moved Wednesday toward allowing soldiers to sue military medical personnel for medical malpractice, except in cases related to comb

The story behind fatal care

By Bill Birnbauer

August 1, 2000

MELBOURNE, Australia, August 1, 2000 — Our high noon began on an ordinary morning at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. As the

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ANALYSIS: Death panels real and imagined

By Wendell Potter

July 7, 2011

Congressmen like Phil Gingrey continue to scare foks with talk of death panels, while insurers make real life or death decisions

Forty percent of Medicare spending on common cancer screenings unnecessary, probe suggests

By Rochelle Sharpe and Elizabeth Lucas

October 7, 2011

Forty percent of Medicare spending on common cancer screenings may be unnecessary

Government orders Columbia to tell patients 'true nature' of drug study

By Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee

October 7, 2009

Officials say research may have caused harm to people who had heart surgery

Excerpts from this story referencing "Surgery":

"… Board. The Columbia IRB sought comments from members of the Departments of Surgery, Anesthesiology, and Medicine and the IRB had before it the package insert …"

FDA considers regulating safety of electronic health systems

By Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz

February 23, 2010

Reports of patient harm include six deaths in two years

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