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...involving the government in abortion services unless issues of rape, incest or the life of the mother are at play. "It does represent a policy shift in favor of the abortion-rights community that it would not have received under George W. Bush's Administration," says Glen Halva-Neubauer, a political scientist at Furman University who has studied the politics of abortion...
...doctors to reduce such errors: Insurers typically reimburse medical providers according to the number of patients they see, rather than the quality of care they deliver. It's a payment structure riddled with problems. "Under the status quo, doctors get paid if they make a mistake," says Dr. Richard Neubauer, chief of internal medicine at Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage and a member of the American College of Physicians' ethics committee. "Then they get paid a second time for correcting that error. It makes very little sense...
...jury is also still out on whether pay-for-performance plans ultimately benefit patients. On one hand, Shaman says that if doctors' performance measures were standardized and made available, patients could become better consumers of medicine. But, on the other, Neubauer worries that some patients could be denied necessary care under the new regime. "A doctor may just decide not to see a difficult patient who brings down his averages on certain measures," Neubauer says...
...Angeles Times’ finalists, reporters Chuck Neubauer, Richard T. Cooper and Judy Pasternack, exposed instances of “relative lobbying” in Congress, where Senators and Representatives promoted the interests of firms who employed their children as lobbyists and consultants...
...reporters were fist tipped off when they found that “in a number of cases, there were special issues that fathers in the Senate supported for years,” according to Neubauer...