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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.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. August 15, 2008
Cost, Cost, CostThe cost of health care is on everyone’s mind, so it’s nice to have good news to report: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reported on August 14 that average beneficiary premiums for the standard Medicare drug benefit will increase by just $3 a month in 2009, to $28. That is 37% lower than the $44 a month that legislators estimated seniors would pay this year when the Medicare Modernization Act was enacted in 2003.May 22, 2008
Problems Are BrewingInterest in the Massachusetts health reform plan remains high, as evidenced by the sell-out crowd at a forum on Capitol Hill this Monday sponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation (and which was televised live on C-SPAN).
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State Issues May 16, 2008
The Other WashingtonHas Washington learned from experience? Not Washington, D.C., but Washington state? Possibly. The state was among the most aggressive in the 1990s in implementing health insurance reforms, including guaranteed issue, community rating, and a big dose of coverage mandates.
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