Top health care reform stories this week
Health care cost containment could become elementary, my dear Watson. IBM supercomputer and jeopardy champ Watson went to work for the health care industry this week. Watson will be working for Wellpoint to help doctors diagnose and treat patients more effectively by providing doctors with instant access to volumes of data pertaining to patient history, medical research and clinical best practices.
Individual mandate takes another hit. Opponents to Obama's health care law scored another point this week when a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled that the controversial individual mandate requiring citizens to purchase health care is unconstitutional. Read the ruling here.
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