General Accounting Office (GAO)

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DoD and VA back down from iEHR development

David Perera | Fierce Government IT | February 6, 2013

The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments will forego development of a $4 billion integrated electronic health record system and instead focus on data interoperability, officials from both departments said. Read More »

Drug Bust: Generic Drug Prices On the Rise

Jeremy A. Greene | Slate | November 20, 2014

For 30 years, generic medications helped make health care cheaper. Why is their cost surging?...

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The GAO Report on Health Care Price Transparency

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn | Health Populi | November 2, 2011

This morning during my still-dark-at-5:15 am walk, my iPod was motivating me to “get up offa that thing,” as James Brown was motivating me to “release the pressure.” Two minutes into the song, he urges, “Get into the sunshine, church is out.” Read More »

The Secret History of FEMA

Garrett M. Graff | Wired | September 3, 2017

FEMA gets no respect. Consider: The two men who are supposed to be helping run the federal government’s disaster response agency had a pretty quiet late August. Even as a once-in-a-thousand-year storm barreled into Houston, these two veterans of disaster response—Daniel A. Craig and Daniel J. Kaniewski—found themselves sitting on their hands. Both had been nominated as deputy administrators in July, but Congress went on its long August recess without taking action on either selection—despite the fact that both are eminently qualified for the jobs.

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