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Mark Twain Lives On in Federal Judge's Ruling on Release of Medicare Data
Judge Edward E. Carnes of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals invoked Mark Twain in his decision finding that a 1970s-era injunction prohibits the government from releasing Medicare data to a private company that wants to sell it for marketing and physician recruitment purposes. Writing for a three-judge panel and referring to the national debate over health care, Carnes repeated one of Twain's aphorisms: "History doesn't repeat itself; at best it sometimes rhymes."