Baucus Wants To Remake CMS Through Health Care Reform Legislation
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Health care reform legislation could be an opportunity to give CMS more authority to be creative, says Sen. Max Baucus, one of the key lawmakers pushing for comprehensive reform this year
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