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Today's Daily Briefing picks are about cost of care and quality of care, veteran health and reader feedback.

Q&A with Dr. Neel Shah, Part 1: Getting Doctors to Consider the Costs of Care

When it comes to talking about America’s rising health care costs, many fingers have been pointed at pharmaceutical companies, malpractice lawyers, health insurers and patients themselves. Dr. Neel Shah wants another group to start thinking about its own role in driving up health costs - rank and file doctors. Physicians simply aren’t trained to think about how the treatment decisions they make affect what patients are going to pay.

Mini-Med Health Plans: Are They Really That Evil?

Are mini-med health plans really such a bad option for low-wage workers? Answers and more from our Daily Briefing.

For Johnson & Johnson, Even More Recalls

Could this year get any worse for Johnson & Johnson? The company recalls 12 million bottles of the Mylanta acid, and more from our Daily Briefing.

Health Costs In Retirement: Worse Than You Thought

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Q&A with Sarah Varney and Jordan Rau: Hospital Power, Insurer Woes

Jordan Rau of Kaiser Health News and Sarah Varney of KQED Public Radio recently collaborated on a project examining what some hospitals’ newfound market power means for health insurance costs – and your pocketbook. You can find Varney’s piece here and Rau’s story here.

Pharma Ghostwriting: "A New Level of Chutzpah"

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Quote of the Day: “To ghostwrite an entire textbook is a new level of chutzpah,” former FDA Commissioner David Kessler tells the New York Times’ Duff Wilson in a story about a drug-maker’s heavy influence on a medical textbook.

Congressman-Elect: Dude, Where's My Health Insurance?

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Gimme Insurance: Writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, Trudy Lieberman examines the astonishing case of a newly elected doctor-Congressman who was irked because his new health insurance didn’t start on the very first day of his new job. Welcome to the rest of America, Rep. Andy Harris.

Will partisanship and bickering define the future of healthcare reform?

For those who have followed the healthcare reform debate from inception to legislation, it often seemed as though there was more misinformation and fear-mongering circulating in the public domain than accurate details.

And with Tuesday's election handing control of the House to Republicans, the divide over healthcare reform — which seems, at times, straight down party lines — will only get more pronounced, leading to the inevitable question: what will become of the healthcare reform bill before it takes effect in 2014?

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