In Healthcare, What Makes Maine Different?

Los Angeles Times - The Los Angeles Times reports that, in the 1970s, Jack Wennberg led a team of physicians in Maine who became the first in the country to examine health care variations across the region. "We used to joke that everyone gets along in northern New England because every hospital is separated by a mountain and the winters are long, so we're happy to see someone," says Wennberg, founder of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice. Read more...