As the discussion here in the US about health care reform gathers steam, the Washington Post published a rather uncritical profile of one of the prominent participants, Ms Karen Ignagni, CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the trade group for the health insurance/ managed care industry.
It included some compliments from Princeton Professor and prominent health care economist Uwe Reinhardt:
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