Sebelius, DeParle ready to tackle health care overhaul (USA Today)
Kathleen Sebelius and Nancy-Ann DeParle are the tag team for Obama's most ambitious domestic policy goal: an overhaul of the nation's health care system, which eluded President Clinton in 1994. The two "working moms," in Sebelius' words, are charged with chaperoning a measure through Congress that's likely to cost more than $1 trillion.

Cost shifting may make arthritis medications too expensive for medicare beneficiaries (PhysOrg)
Biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) such as adalimumab, etanercept and infliximab are effective at reducing symptoms and slowing progression of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). These drugs act more quickly, require less laboratory monitoring, and are better tolerated than nonbiologic DMARDs, but they are also up to 100 times more expensive. Insurance plans differ greatly in their ...

From the District to Washington (The Hill)
If you work in politics and you don t know A. Barry Rand, you d better get to know him.