Don Berwick

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12 Medical Tests That Can Do More Harm Than Good

Ann Brenoff | Posted 05.24.2012 | Fifty

Enter a new term into the midlife vernacular: medical gluttony. It's when our doctors order a barrage of "just in case" medical testing to keep us hap...

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Washington Needs to Call a Doctor

Dan Rather | Posted 04.17.2012 | Politics

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If you want a simple shorthand for the dysfunction in Washington, D.C., I can do it in two words: Don Berwick.

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Time For Him To Go: Temporary Customs And Border Commissioner Resigns

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.22.2011 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- Time's up for the head of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, who announced Thursday he is stepping down at the end of the year when...

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Key Medicare Figure Steps Aside

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 01.23.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The point man for carrying out President Barack Obama's health care law will be stepping down after Republicans succeeded in blocki...

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Who Is Don Berwick and Why Do the Republicans Want to Kill His Nomination?

Linda Bergthold | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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One of the major accusations against Obama's nominee to head up the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, Dr. Donald Berwick, is that he "loves" Britain's National Health Service. Ergo, he loves socialism, ergo he is a Marxist.

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