title: 100 most powerful. Familiar legislators and policymakers dominate the top of Modern Healthcare's second annual ranking of the most influential people in healthcare, but plenty of new names fill out the list. See who's in and who's out.
abstract: Our second annual ranking of the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare has quite a few surprises. Readers nominated and voted for the people who move and shake the healthcare industry. The 2003 list of the Most Powerful has 52 names absent from last year's ranking, including a new No. 1. Who are they and who are the repeat winners?
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Romano
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel / Q000145:classification*; D006291:Health Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D007857:Leadership; D011050:Policy Making; D011057:Politics; D011209:Power, Psychological; D014481:United States