“If only all journalists demonstrated the expertise of Barlett and Steele, the world
would be a better place.”
—Baltimore Sun
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele are one of the most widely acclaimed investigative reporting teams in American journalism. They have worked together for more than three decades, first at The Philadelphia Inquirer, (1971-1997) where they won two Pulitzer Prizes and scores of other national journalism awards, then at Time magazine, (1997-2006) where they earned two National Magazine Awards, becoming the first journalists in history to win both the Pulitzer Prize for newspaper work and its magazine equivalent for magazine reporting, and now at Vanity Fair as contributing editors. They also have written seven books.
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A FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM FOR HEALTH CARE -- IT'S ABOUT TIME
It’s encouraging to see that one of the proposals being advanced by the Obama Administration to deal with health care is an idea we proposed four years ago – an independent agency modeled on the Federal Reserve System to oversee health policy and expenditures. We suggested this solution in our 2004 book, CRITICAL CONDITION: How Health Care in America Became Big Business -- and Bad Medicine, which also described why our present fundamentally flawed system is in such desperate need of reform. In researching the current system and the havoc it is wreaking on millions of American families...
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