Archive for September 17th, 2009

One of the main points of dispute in the health reform debate has been whether to include a newpublic health insurance option.Legislation approvedby three Housecommittees and the Senate, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee includes such a public option, but theproposal unveiled yesterday by Senate Finance Committe Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) does not.

Last Friday, I had an opportunity to spend part of the afternoon with Dr. Don Detmer (right) during his visit to Microsoft Research . If the name isnt familiar, Dr. Detmer is a surgeon and the immediate past president of AMIA, the American Medical Informatics…(read more)


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