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The Massachusetts Avenue of health reform

The Health Policy Exchange

In contrast to the personality-driven path that Lyndon Johnson took to navigate legislative obstacles to Medicare and Medicaid, former management consultant Mitt Romney charted a decidedly different course to expanding health insurance when he became governor of Massachusetts in 2003.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

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Pulmonology and surgery were consulted during his hospital stay, and he has since had a left lower lobectomy after healing from his pneumonia. Management of Congenital Lung Malformations. 2004 Nov;49(4):302-9. After one day he was transitioned to oral levofloxacin and clindamycin to complete a 2-week antibiotic course.