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Our 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.
June 27, 2008

Single-Payer Redux

There is mounting evidence that centrally-controlled, government-dominated, taxpayer-financed, rule-driven health care systems are failing. Even the godfather of the Canadian system, Claude Castonguay, now acknowledges that it is in crisis, as the Manhattan Institute’s David Gratzer reports. "We thought we could resolve the system's problems by rationing services or injecting massive amounts of new money into it," Castonguay said. But he now believes the solution is to bring private sector forces into play, with greater freedom of choice for patients.
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HSAs, Single Payer


April 18, 2008

Good News and Bad

The House passed legislation on Tuesday, the mis-named "Taxpayer Assistance and Simplification Act," that contained the awful provision that would throw a mountain of paperwork at Health Savings Accounts. But the good news is that the White House sent a letter to Congress warning that President Bush would veto the tax bill if it contains the HSA provision.
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Events, HSAs, insurance, Medicaid, Leavitt, Taxpayer Assistance and Simplification Act, BlackBerry, NFIB, Medicare, reform, evidence-based medicine, physicians, organ transplants, kidney donation, single-payer health care, Maryland, Canada, Joseph Antos, Peter Pitts, Sally Satel, AIMS
Categories:
Medicaid, HSAs, Health Reform


April 11, 2008

Join Us!

Please mark your calendars now to join us on Tuesday, April 29, for a major address on Medicare featuring HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt. The program, which we will jointly host with several other think tanks, begins at 9:45 a.m. at the brand new Newseum at 555 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. This will be the secretary's major address on the massive threat that Medicare and other entitlement programs present to our nation's economy, followed by a forum featuring experts presenting their ideas and research on solutions.
Tags:
health savings accounts, substantiation, HSA, Medicaid, Massachusetts, universal coverage, individual mandate, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, prescription drugs, SCHIP
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HSAs