"It's a catastrophe," says health-policy researcher Stanton Glantz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoke Signals] Reference

Her health-policy adviser, Chris Jennings, argues that hers is the responsible plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton, Obama Split] Reference

Skinner, health-policy expert at Canadian think tank The Fraser Institute, in Vancouver.    From Wordnik.com.  [What] Reference

Some health-policy experts warn that incentive programs can backfire if structured poorly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medicare Offers Overhaul] Reference

They are typical of the philosophy of the modern health-policy left that underpins ObamaCare.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Berwick Evasion] Reference

The health-policy analysis firm Avalere Health has put together this table of implementation dates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Answers to Your Health Reform Questions] Reference

For too long, the medical establishment ignored women as a group when making health-policy decisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Next Frontier] Reference

Most health-policy analysts believe that Mr. McCain is proposing the most fundamental health-care reform.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain Is the Radical on Health Reform] Reference

But many health-policy experts argue Medicare's fee-setting mechanisms are making those disparities worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medical Specialties Hit by a Growing Pay Gap] Reference

She also carved out some distance, taking on public speaking duties and a new public persona as a health-policy expert.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth Edwards: A look back at her very public last few years] Reference

Here are six tips from health-policy analysts and advocates on how to choose a drug plan that is most advantageous to you.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Your Benefit] Reference

"It's an aggressive timeline," says Genevieve Kenney, a health-policy analyst at the Urban Institute, of the 2014 deadline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Open Enrollment] Reference

"All doctors think they're practicing good medicine," says Len Nichols, director of the health-policy program at New America.    From Wordnik.com.  [File Under ‘Hodgepodge’] Reference

Out of the blue, he received a letter from Thomas Moore, who was then a health-policy analyst at George Washington University.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Depressing News About Antidepressants] Reference

Same with highly touted electronic record keeping, as health-policy experts Theodore Marmor and Jonathan Oberlander have shown.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Nation Under Medicare] Reference

Many health-policy experts say it's high time for American doctors to start considering costs when assessing treatment options.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pricey Drugs Put Squeeze on Doctors] Reference

Dr. Berwick runs the Boston-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement and is a pediatrics and health-policy professor at Harvard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medicare Nominee Would Face Big Changes] Reference

It is "probably the industry that came out best," said Ira Loss, senior health-policy analyst at Washington Analysis, a research firm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winners and Losers in the Affected Industries] Reference

Hopkins Center for Tuberculosis Research in the US, backed by researchers and health-policy experts from Africa, South America and Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Dr. Berwick is a pediatrician and noted health-policy expert who runs the nonprofit Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Massachusetts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health Scholar Picked to Oversee Medicare, Medicaid] Reference

Burke, a trained nurse who practiced in a surgical ward before first joining Dole's staff in 1977 as a health-policy adviser, helped pass the bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman In The Middle] Reference

The president-elect's first lengthy comments on the Blagojevich matter came at a news conference Thursday called to announce his health-policy team.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama to List Contacts With Illinois Governor] Reference

Some health-policy specialists say the tax-exempt employer health benefits are inefficient because they encourage the purchase of more expensive plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Idea on Hill: Taxing Health Benefits] Reference

M2 Health Care Consulting hasn't been able to find an affordable plan — and that's having serious consequences for the health-policy consulting firm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sick and Getting Sicker] Reference

Nonetheless, the White House has been drumming up support for some type of health-care overhaul, and the president has notched early health-policy achievements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deeds vs. Promises: A Scorecard] Reference

David Gergen filled in as national-security adviser, and Dr. Margaret Hamburg, a respected health-policy expert, ran the Department of Health and Human Services.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epidemic Threats] Reference

"It's good news, but it isn't great news," said Joseph Antos, a health-policy expert at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ranks of Uninsured Fell in '07, Census Says] Reference

For a program to rein in the long-term growth of health-care costs and provide expanded access, that uncertainty is a significant liability, health-policy experts say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democrats Angle for Health-Care Edge] Reference

Dr. Berwick, 63 years old, is highly regarded in health-policy circles for his work to impose quality-control systems inside medical facilities and improve treatments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sebelius Defends Medicare Nominee] Reference

"They all cut the deals that they wanted to cut, and they minimized their losses," says Robert Laszewski, a health-policy expert and former insurance-industry official.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Stands to Win] Reference

With admirable bluntness, Mr. Battistella dismantles a lot of health-policy conventional wisdom, showing how it has been made obsolete by new economic and social realities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Single Payer, Many Faults] Reference

This was the principal finding of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment of the 1970s and early 1980s, still the largest health-policy study ever conducted in the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poison Pill] Reference

Much of the federal legislation now being debated is modeled after state experiments, says Laura Tobler, health-policy expert at the National Conference for State Legislatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Connecticut Pushes Ahead on Health Care] Reference