"Gail R. Wilensky" is an American health economist who has worked for Republican Party (United States)/Republican administrations and candidacies. Wilensky headed Medicare (United States)/Medicare under George H. W. Bush/the first president Bush and works at Project HOPE.

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Under Gov. Bush, traditional Medicare will remain an option, including the ability to get a prescription drug benefit.

Today's actions are significant steps in moving the company toward best practices in corporate governance and compensation matters.

You will get a lot more pressure to understand the comparative effectiveness of technologies and medical procedures. That can help payers, providers, and even the patient community to understand if there is either not much known or a lot of dispute about how effective a new technology or procedure may be. For some people in some circumstances it can make all of the difference in the world.

I have the impression the American public does not understand the magnitude of the problem.

Medicare is growing at a rate of 8.5 percent per year, the federal budget at 5.2 percent and the gross domestic product at only 4.8 percent.