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Sascha Meinrath is the Research Director of the New America Foundation’s Wireless Future Program, and coordinates the Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative. He is a well-known expert on community wireless networks, municipal broadband, and telecommunications policy. He blogs regularly at www.saschameinrath.com.

CPU: The FCC has recently published its draft rules for an issue of great interest to the Web community, net neutrality. Two commissioners dissented in part, but it appears that the pro-neutrality faction has scored a point.

In these case studies for The Commonwealth Fund, Dr. Nichols and Tom Emswiler examine high-performing health care systems to see how they achieve better outcomes at lower cost. Both the Hill Physicians Medical Group, an association of physicians in individual practice, and the Baylor Health Care System, a highly integrated delivery system, have successfully standardized care, implemented electronic medical records, and improved clinical outcomes.

The large majority of American families with health insurance obtain their coverage
through an employer -- whether their own, their spouse's, or a parent's. Indeed, employersponsored
insurance (ESI), which covers nearly 63 percent of Americans, has served as the
foundation for the U.S. health insurance system for half a century.