• It’s on. The mega union only needed 66%. They got over 80% ‘yea’. [LINK]
• At ninety days into the new reform law, Obama makes public safeguards inherent within. [LINK]
• FDA approves new diagnostic test that more rapidly detects antibodies and antigens. Excellent. [LINK]
• More controversy than there needs to be? The president’s pick to be new CMS chief engenders strong feelings on both sides [LINK]

Hospital executives who have worked with Dr. Berwick describe him as a visionary, inspiring leader. [..] Republicans are using the nomination to revive their arguments against the new health care law, which they see as a potent issue in this fall’s elections, and Dr. Berwick has given them plenty of ammunition. In two decades as a professor of health policy and as a prolific writer, he has spoken of the need to ration health care and cap spending and has confessed to a love affair with the British health care system.

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