January 25, 2011

Wall Street Journal
The Journal seeks to overturn a decades-long court order barring public access to a confidential Medicare database. The AMA successfully sued the government in 1979 to keep secret how much money individual doctors receive from Medicare, and the ruling still stands, reports Russell Adams.

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