Fresh Health Wonkery and other news of note

February 24th, 2017 by Julie Ferguson

Check out the newest Health Wonk Review: Presidents’ Day edition, hosted by David Williams at the excellent Health Business Blog. This week’s issue has a plethora of posts about the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare – quelle surprise! The wonks offer diverse and informed opinions. Don’t miss David’s post on the Cadillac Tax – that one was news to us. There are other topics discussed, too. We always Like Roy Poses posts – he is always holding someone’s feet to the fire for conflicts of interest, and we like that about him!

Other noteworthy news

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