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...Given the backdrop of health care reform and insurers' preoccupation with cost containment, the major concern is that women under 50 may now stand to lose insurance coverage for mammography - a preventive test that Medicare is mandated to pay for. But Sebelius rejected the notion. The task force does not "set federal policy, and they don't determine what services are covered by the Federal Government," she said. On the part of the task force, Petitti says the cost of mammography was never mentioned in the panel's discussions...
Last Thursday, I attended former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s timely and stimulating lecture on banking reform. Spitzer exhibited a thorough understanding of the causes of the recent financial crisis and laid out a convincing case for robust regulation of America’s troubled banking system. Among other things, he concluded that the sheer size of American banks was a major contributor to the financial crisis and continues to present a systemic risk to the economy...
Students from the College, Kennedy School, and Law School held signs, chanted, and brandished coat hangers to warn of dangerous alternatives that women might be forced to pursue under the law, which the House passed on Nov. 7. The Senate is still considering its version of health-care reform...
Robert Blendon, professor of health policy and political analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health, said the research findings have implications for health care reform in the United States...
...more important question is whether the Nov. 18 ruling will lead to the reform of the U.S.'s dysfunctional water-resources system, which consistently produces white elephants like Mr. Go - as well as a little-used $750 million navigation lock a stone's throw from the flood walls that failed during Katrina - but doesn't address the nation's water-resources problems. The Corps was spending more money in Louisiana than in any other state before Katrina, but most of it was wasted on pork projects desired by shipping interests, farming interests, oil interests and other interests that haven...