Health Care Reform: What's in It for Oncologists and Our Patients?
Health Care Reform: What's in It for Oncologists and Our Patients?
Lee Schwartzberg, MD, Editor-in-Chief
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2010 May 12
Health Care Reform: What's in It for Oncologists and Our Patients?
2010 May 12, Lee Schwartzberg, MD, Editor-in-Chief
The final Health Care Reform (HCR) bills were signed into law by President Obama in late March 2010. This legislation, consisting of 2500 pages of highly technical regulations, represents nothing less than a blueprint for changing the way one-sixth of the American economy is shaped over time. After the most contentious Congressional fight in decades, the bill that was passed was criticized on the left as kowtowing to the pharmaceutical companies and other special interest groups, and on the right,...