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Obamacare Q&A: ‘I Don’t Really Think You Could Stop This Law’
by Charles Ornstein Less than a month after President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, he nominated Dr. Donald Berwick to lead its implementation as administrator of the Centers for...
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On ‘Country Club’ Campuses: A Public University Ex-President Shares His...
by Marian WangJames Garland was president of Miami University -- a public university in Ohio -- for a decade, retiring in 2006 after spearheading a number of changes aimed at raising the school’s...
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Coming in January: Obamacare Rate Shock Part Two
by Charles OrnsteinMedia reports about the Affordable Care Act have been dominated by two themes lately: The ongoing glitches with Healthcare.gov and the “rate shock” that some consumers now face...
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How Low Will Health Care Enrollments Be? Here’s What to Watch For
by Charles OrnsteinThis week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is expected to announce the long-awaited enrollment numbers for the first month of the health insurance marketplaces. And...
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Who Are State Dept’s 100 “Special Government Employees”? It Won’t Say
by Justin Elliott and Liz DayEarlier this year, Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin drew scrutiny for a special arrangement that allowed her to work part time at the State Department while simultaneously...
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Brushes With the Medical System
by Charles OrnsteinEarlier this year, I wrote about how my mom’s death changed my perspective about end-of-life care. After watching her final days, I no longer felt so certain that society should...
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How to Get Censored on China’s Twitter
中文版:新浪微博:遭遇中国式审查 The word “tank.” Photos and names of Chinese dissidents. Images of rubber ducks. Any mention of Tibetan protests or Bo Xilai, the disgraced senior member of China’s Communist Party....
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Further Reading: Deleted Posts on Weibo
If you are interested in reporting on, or just learning about, how censorship works on Sina Weibo, here are some resources we found useful:Blocked on Weibo, a book and blog by Jason Ng. They both...
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How We Observed Censorship on Sina Weibo
For our project tracking image censorship on Sina Weibo, a popular social networking service in China, ProPublica wrote software to monitor a set of 100 Weibo user accounts to detect censored images.In...
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新浪微博:遭遇中国式审查
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At a Catholic Hospital, a Dispute Over What a Doctor Can Do – and Say
by Nina MartinNov. 14: This story has been updated with comment from Dr. Demos. A dispute between a Colorado cardiologist and the hospital he works for has highlighted a growing area of concern among...
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N.Y. Fed Asks Court to Dismiss Fired Goldman Examiner’s Lawsuit
by Jake BernsteinThe Federal Reserve Bank of New York has asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit by a former bank examiner who says she was dismissed after finding fault with Goldman Sachs’...
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Polarizing Brooklyn Prosecutor Retires Amid Scrutiny
by Joaquin SapienFor more than 20 years, Michael Vecchione served as one of Brooklyn District Attorney Charles “Joe” Hynes’ top lieutenants, taking on some of the office’s most controversial cases....
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Medicare’s Failure to Track Doctors Wastes Billions on Name-Brand Drugs
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Crossroads’ Tax Return Shows Big Donors, But Doesn’t Name Them
by Kim BarkerThe dark money giant Crossroads GPS, launched by Republican strategist Karl Rove, told the IRS it raised almost $180 million in 2012, including one donation of $22.5 million, another of...
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Five Takeaways: Why Doctors Stay Mum About Mistakes Their Colleagues Make
by Marshall Allen As I wrote this earlier month, doctors often know when a patient has been the victim of a medical error – sometimes before the patient does.But too often they don’t say anything...
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Discussion: Why Medicare Wastes Billions on Name-Brand Drugs
by Blair HickmanYesterday, we published an investigation into how Medicare's popular drug program has failed to rein in medical providers who heavily prescribe pricey, name-brand drugs, instead of...
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Military Aid Gets A Partial Pass on Foreign Assistance Transparency Push
by Cora CurrierEarlier this year, we detailed the Obama administration’s opposition to congressional efforts to require more oversight of aid to foreign militaries and police forces.Security...
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