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NewslettersOur newsletter features a commentary by Grace-Marie Turner on the major developments and issues of the week as well as summaries of writings by participants in the Health Policy Consensus Group and other articles of interest from the health policy world, plus announcements of coming events. It is emailed in an HTML format from the galen@galen.org email address, via Constant Contact, and you may have to adjust your email settings and junk mailbox to ensure that you don’t miss an issue.1 2 3 4 5 Next >July 29, 2010
More Re-education
The National Council on Aging got a lot of media attention this week for a survey that was astonishing in its misrepresentation of the facts. The NCOA asked 636 seniors true or false questions about "the top twelve
facts" they should know about ObamaCare. Only 17% knew the "right"
answers to half of the questions and not a single person got a perfect
score. The news release read: "Most Seniors Misinformed, Unaware of Key Provisions of the Affordable Care Act." The infuriating thing is that the pollsters and the NCOA got the answers
wrong, and seniors were right! With a lawyerly parsing of words, the
questions were designed to obscure and even deceive.
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Health Reform July 23, 2010
Massachusetts Warning Signs
We continue to study Massachusetts' health overhaul experiment as a
harbinger of ObamaCare. And we continue to see serious problems ahead. President Obama told MSNBC's Chuck Todd in an interview
last week that his new health reform law "not only makes sure everybody
has access to coverage but is reducing costs." The quote was evocative
of then-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's promise
in 2006 that, "Every uninsured citizen in Massachusetts will soon have
affordable health insurance and the costs of health care will be
reduced." Washington's reform effort doesn't even pretend to achieve universal
coverage, and Massachusetts' experience shows the near impossibility of
containing costs in a system where incentives go in exactly the opposite
direction.
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Massachusetts July 16, 2010
This Will Not StandA key reason that many conservative Democrats were convinced to vote for the health overhaul legislation in March was because the president and other leaders said it would reduce the deficit and put us on a path to long-term entitlement reform. But any number of independent studies have proven that promise to be false, and nowhere is the case made more forcefully and accurately than in a new paper written for the Galen Institute by budget expert Jim Capretta. July 2, 2010
Realities of Risk and DebtAEI's Tom Miller and Jim Capretta of the Ethics and Public Policy Center have a good post about the high-risk pools that were launched this week to great fanfare. They explain best the serious flaws in this program: "This week, the Obama administration finally launches a poorly designed, hastily constructed, and severely underfunded high-risk pool program across the fifty states. It's a shallow attempt to appear to be doing "something" soon to help Americans lacking health insurance due to pre-existing health conditions. But apart from its stumbling start, it's also the initial poster child for the core flaws of ObamaCare."
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Health Reform June 25, 2010
ObamaCare's Catch 22The Commonwealth Fund is at it again with another headline-grabbing survey, putting the U.S. dead last in its ranking of seven countries' health systems. Commonwealth's bottom line: Only Canada has lower quality health care than we do. The U.S. is the most unsafe, the least efficient, the least equitable, and the worst in keeping people alive and healthy. Oh, and we spend way too much. And, of course, Commonwealth reminds us that the U.S. placed 37th in a discredited, 10-year-old survey by the World Health Organization ranking health care systems.
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Health Reform June 17, 2010
Bureaucratic NightmareIndiana Gov. Mitch Daniels talked about the impact of ObamaCare on his state before a standing-room-only conference at AEI on Tuesday, and the outlook is not good. He described "what this cannon looks like from the receiving end" and said his state is reeling from the expected costs -- as much as $3.6 billion in additional costs to comply with ObamaCare's mandates. "This is not a blessing or a boon to the states but a huge mandated tax at the state level," the governor said.
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Health Reform June 11, 2010
Re-education CampWhat a bizarre week it has been, with oil still gushing into the Gulf, growing global political and economic instability, and virtually no private-sector jobs being created in our still-struggling economy. And the president spends yet another week talking about health reform?! Clearly, he knows this massively unpopular law is causing political trouble for Democrats or he wouldn't be trying so hard to re-educate the American people about what's in it. But the sugar-coated message about the early benefits just isn't selling.
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Health Reform June 4, 2010
Consumerism in EuropeHow extraordinary it was in London and Paris last week to hear broad agreement about the value of consumer choice, competition, portability, and the essential role that private providers play in health care in Europe. The world has turned upside down. I was in Paris to speak at the first pan-European conference focusing on the issue of private hospitals, organized by the European Union of Private Hospitals and its president, Dr. Max Ponseille and vice-president, Alberta Sciachi. More than 400 people attended, including members of the EU parliament, former health ministers, and many corporate CEOs. CONTINUE READING >>
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