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...What?" by Joe Klein [Feb. 1]: President Obama spent a year working within the system to bring change. Wrong choice. Special interests gutted the reform out of the health care, banking and climate-and-energy bills, showing that congressional Democrats are as susceptible to the influence of money as Republicans. The President now understands. After the Massachusetts election, he went over the heads of the system to ask for help in getting action on banking reform. Now it's us vs. Wall Street in a fight to win over our Representatives...
...health care reform is dead, it is the fault not of overreaching but of not reaching far enough. To gain the votes of conservative Democrats, the President was too willing to compromise on important components...
Perhaps if the good people of Massachusetts had to live in my state, they would not have been so eager to derail President's Obama's health care reform. I live in an area of California where 36.3% of the people lack health insurance and more than 17% are unemployed. Our emergency rooms are jammed with nonpaying customers. I am white, middle class and highly educated and can barely pay for insurance. The state and local safety nets are in tatters. Think about us next time you vote...
Indeed. Yet six months later, Barrett is being hailed as the leader Cardinal needed to restore its vigor. It came at a critical time, given that any health care company has to be in a position to pivot off of whatever health care reform plan emerges from Congress. His strategy? Return to basics: strong leadership, better customer service and refocusing on what the $95.9 billion company has always done best--supply-chain management. "This is an entirely different company," says Mike Lynch, who heads Cardinal's medical-supply unit. "We've seen a much needed reinfusion of capital into...
...rest of the health care sector, the drug-wholesaling industry has proved mostly recession-proof. Revenue rose 8% in 2008, to $386 billion, and an additional 6% bump is expected for last year, according to Pembroke Consulting, a Philadelphia distribution and manufacturing consultancy. Plus, an aging population and reform will be extra boons. "In theory, more insured people should mean more drug utilization," says Adam J. Fein, an economist and the founder of Pembroke. "That means more money in the pockets of wholesalers...