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Washington Post: President Obama’s pick to head the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services, has “pushed to see quality occupy roughly equal billing with cost and access.”

New York Times: The company contends the government is improperly trying to tell companies to prevent “crowd trampling” as an occupational hazard.

Los Angeles Times: Business columnist David Lazarus reports the new rules on bank fees that took effect this month don’t apply to overdraft fees for scheduled recurring payments, while banks “remain free to enroll customers without permission in overdraft programs covering other transactions, such as payments with checks.”

New York Times: While the petroleum industry is fighting paying the cost of cleaning up the Gulf oil catastrophe, the industry has benefited from “tax breaks available at virtually every stage of the exploration and extraction process.”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: A new rule takes effect next year in which attorneys will be given time to research jurors’ previous involvement in lawsuits before the first witness takes the stand.

Washington Post: “There is so much information out there, if you paid attention to every recall notice that came out every day, you’d go nuts.”

McClatchy Newspapers: “Since the recession hit in 2007, federal lawsuits filed under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act have more than doubled, while complaints about problem collectors have skyrocketed.”