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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 >June 26, 2009
Change Vs. SecurityABC News anchor Charlie Gibson shook his head after Wednesday night's broadcast from the White House, frustrated he had not been able to draw out more details from President Obama about the sweeping health reform plan that he is pushing. Gibson, as well as the doctors, patients, businesspeople, and others in the audience, posed some tough questions. But most of the president's answers came from his standard talking points and went unchallenged. He spoke for 45 minutes of the 75 minutes of actual airtime.
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ABC News, President Obama, health reform, Massachusetts, opinion polls, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Joseph Antos, American Enterprise Institute, John Calfee, public option, single-payer, government-run, Governor Michael Leavitt, Jeffrey Anderson, Pacific Research Institute, The Washington Times, David Brooks, Senate Finance Committee, physicians, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, uninsured, June O'Neill, Dave O'Neill, Employment Policies Institute, socialized medicine, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, RealClearMarkets, National Health Service, New Jersey, Assemblyman Jay Webber, Energy and Commerce Committee
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Health Reform June 19, 2009
BombshellsThe Congressional Budget Office told the Senate health committee its bill would cost $1 trillion over the next 10 years and would only provide health insurance for a net 16 million more people. It said 15 million would lose their coverage at work and eight million would lose coverage from other sources, leaving 36 million uninsured. Since the goal is to have virtually everyone covered with no deficit spending, this was a double whammy, especially since there is even more spending in the bill that the CBO hasn't yet scored.June 12, 2009
Trouble BrewingThe first Democratic bill in the hopper this week came from Sen. Kennedy's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, taking 615-pages to turn most of whatever is left of our private health sector over to government. The normally-genteel Sen. Orrin Hatch was quoted in The New York Times this morning as calling the bill "the most liberal bunch of gobbledygook I've seen in my life -- a complete liberal mishmash of ideas." Keith Hennessey, director of the National Economic Council under President Bush, was the first to present a detailed analysis, which you can find here.
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HELP bill, public plan, mandate, AMA, Senate Finance Committee, Medicare, Patients' Choice Act, Paul Ryan, Tom Coburn, comparative effectiveness research, Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research, Massachusetts, Michael Tanner, Cato Institute, tax treatment of health insurance, Robert Helms, American Enterprise Institute, Tom Miller, Karl Rove, The Wall Street Journal, Jeffrey Anderson, Pacific Research Institute, Scott Gottlieb, Coleen Klasmeier, Canada, David Gratzer, Manhattan Institute
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Health Reform June 5, 2009
Short TakesRep. Paul Ryan spoke at a day-long conference at the American Enterprise Institute yesterday, warning that a public plan option is becoming the linchpin in the health reform debate. He said that a health reform bill creating a new government health insurance plan will be approved by the House "no two ways about that" and that the provision likely will be included in the Senate bill as well.
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public plan, Consensus Group, individual mandate, cost, video contest, Paul Ryan, Patients' Choice Act, Ron Pollack, Families USA, Don Brookins, David Knight, Jarrett Skorup, Kaiser News Service, Ryan Ellis, Americans for Tax Reform, international health systems, swine flu, Jack Calfee, pandemic, antivirals, Tom Miller, American Enterprise Institute, educational attainment, The Wall Street Journal, Victoria Craig Bunce, JP Wieske, Council for Affordable Health Insurance, Robert Moffit, The Heritage Foundation, wait times, Massachusetts, Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, Joe Antos, McAllen, Texas, Tevi Troy, Hudson Institute
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Health Reform May 22, 2009
Shaking Things UpFour Republican members of Congress shook up the health reform debate this week when they were the first to reach the floor of the House and Senate with comprehensive health reform legislation. The Patients' Choice Act puts the $300-billion tax break for employment-based health insurance front and center in the debate. Reps. Paul Ryan and Devin Nunes and Sens. Tom Coburn and Richard Burr use it to create generous refundable tax credits for Americans to buy health insurance ($2,300 for individuals and $5,700 for families).
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colonoscopy, rationing, Obamacare, Michael Tanner, Medicaid, Nina Owcharenko, The Heritage Foundation, Dennis Smith, The Hill, Jeffrey Young, Senate Finance Committee, Health Affairs, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Donald Berwick, patient-centered care, Manhattan Institute, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, universal care, McKinsey, Harvard Business School, Manhattan Institute, Regina Herzlinger, Sen. Orrin Hatch, The New York Times, Robert Pear, Cato Institute, Michael Cannon, Charlotte Ivancic, Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist, The Wall Street Journal, American Enterprise Institute, Joe Antos, tax treatment of health insurance, tax credits, Sen. Richard Burr, Sen. Tom Coburn, Rep. Devin Nunes, Rep. Paul Ryan, Patients' Choice Act
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Health Reform May 15, 2009
Health Care BrouhahaThe White House and its allies cheered on Monday when President Obama announced that six health groups had pledged to reduce the growth of health spending by 1.5 percent a year for the next 10 years. The president called it a "watershed event," saying that this could save as much as $2 trillion over a decade. But when the actual members of the organizations heard the news, all hell broke loose.
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Society for Innovative Medical Practice Design, MDVIP, Kevin Sack, concierge medicine, personalized health, AHIP, HDHP, HSA, high-deductible health plan, health savings account, comparative effectiveness, NICE, Britain, Imperial College School of Medicine, Karol Sikora, Eli Lilly and Company, John Lechleiter, innovation, private health insurance, Medicare, administrative cost, BNA, William Schiffbauer, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Yuval Levin, Jim Capretta, Economix, tax credits, National Review, physicians, American Enterprise Institute, Scott Gottlieb, Cato Institute, Michael Cannon, stimulus bill, The Wall Street Journal, tax treatment of health insurance, Uwe Reinhardt, Pfizer, Senate Finance Committee, public plan, National Health Insurance Exchange, mandates, Medicare Trustees Report, Nancy-Ann DeParle, America's Health Insurance Plans, American Hospital Association, health spending
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Health Reform May 8, 2009
Setting the Eagle FreeJack Kemp was a visionary leader with an enduring passion for liberty and an unfailing love for the American dream, and the airwaves have been filled this week with testimonials about him and his transformative ideas. I first met Jack Kemp in the 1970s, when he still was a relatively unknown member of Congress and I was a Washington correspondent for the San Diego Union. Jack had played football for the San Diego Chargers before being traded to the Buffalo Bills in 1962. San Diegans were interested in this man they knew as a star quarterback and who now was a congressman from Buffalo talking about cutting taxes to spur economic growth.
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Jack Kemp, Kemp Commission, National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform, Unleashing America's Potential, comparative effectiveness, Senate Finance Committee, public plan, Walt Francis, FEHBP, The Heritage Foundation, Stuart Butler, Merrill Matthews, Council for Affordable Health Insurance, Steve Forbes, Forbes, Canada, Brian Lee Crowley, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, GE, healthymagination, swine flu, Henry Miller, Hoover Institution, Scott Gottlieb, AEI, vaccines, Paul Howard, Manhattan Institute, Medicare, Medicaid, fraud, Jim Frogue, Center for Health Transformation
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Jack Kemp May 1, 2009
Flu FearsJohn Barry's excellent book, The Great Influenza, provides a dramatic and detailed account of the extraordinary mistakes that were made, including many by governments, that led to the most deadly pandemic in recorded history in 1918. At least 30 million and possibly as many as 100 million people around the world died.
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