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HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today highlighted the benefits of health insurance reform for businesses and released a new fact sheet regarding a recent analysis from the Congressional Budget Office.

Phil Ellis may be the most powerful guy you've never heard of in the health-care debate. A senior analyst with the Congressional Budget Office, Ellis is the man who has to decide what it would cost to rebuild the health insurance system.

He has essentially condemned two legislative proposals by...

This has to be the lamest. most inept, and/or most corrupt Congress in history:

Washington Examiner
Baucus claims it's too difficult to put health care bill online
By: BARBARA HOLLINGSWORTH
09/24/09

Signs that a leader who alleges himself or herself to be objective and a scientist is, in fact, neither objective nor scientific include:

• Resorting to ad hominem attacks when questioned or criticized.
• Unfamiliarity with the current literature.
• Years-behind view of the situation on the ground.

Imagine a government report about pharma that glosses over the rough edges. Imagine a report where the most critical issues in pharma are reluctant doctors, difficulty measuring ROI of drugs, and the criteria for the quality of drugs being solely dependent on whether users take them correctly.

Well, no such pharma report exists (the opposite is true - pharma is put under a microscope and excoriated harshly by the government, media, activist groups, etc. for even the slightest "deviation"), but in Health IT, it is a different matter.