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Senate GOP scapegoats another local academic

  December 02, 2011

Don Berwick, the prominent pediatrician and Harvard School of Public Health professor who headed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, stepped down yesterday, another victim of Washington’s hyper-partisan politics. Berwick had been serving a recess appointment that expired at year’s end. President Obama opted for that temporary arrangement after it became apparent that Berwick was unlikely to win Senate confirmation.

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