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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. It was one thing to ask drivers to buy car insurance.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

I was suicidal myself as a physician and I survived that in 2004. I felt like a lot of doctors feel—they feel like they’re locked into criminal rings committing insurance fraud just to stay afloat. I’m just actually providing really good primary health care. You get your own insurance checks. Insurance pays that.

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