Photo: #Dr. Don Berwick, the head of the Center of Medicare & Medicaid Services, listens during a presentation on the YMCA Diabetes Prevention Program at the YMCA in St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011.
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Dr. Don Berwick, the head of the Center of Medicare & Medicaid Services, listens during a presentation on the YMCA Diabetes Prevention Program at the YMCA in St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011. (MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson)

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