title: Regulators extend their reign.
abstract: As the cogs begin turning to make health reform a reality, who wields the most power? Our readers put policymakers in Washington at the top of our ranking S of the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a "great first step...but it really is only a first step. It sets us up to get into a whole body of work on changing the care delivery system", says Scott Armstrong of Group Health Cooperative in Seattle, who debuted at No. 38.
authors.forename: Srebecca
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vesely
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel / Q000145:classification*; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States