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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


June 20, 2008

Wake-Up Calls

Key members of Congress got another wake-up call this week about the serious threat that rising government health spending poses to the future of our health sector — and our economy. During a summit sponsored on Monday at the Library of Congress by the Senate Finance Committee, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told members "The decisions we make about health care reform will affect many aspects of our economy, including the pace of economic growth, wages and living standards, and government budgets, to name a few."
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federal health board, single-payer, Assurant, TelaDoc, medical tourism, AMA, Bernanke, California, Leavitt, Medicare, Tom Miller, AEI, Grace-Marie Turner, mandate, business, Bob Moffit, Heritage, Medicare Advantage, medical costs, cost trends, PricewaterhouseCoopers, James Capretta, political primer, Canada, prescription drugs, Fraser Institute, Brett Skinner, Mark Rovere, Sally Satel, organ transplant
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Single Payer


April 25, 2008

Single Payer Utopia?

The American Prospect, a magazine of liberal thought, carries an article in its current issue by Marcia Angell, M.D., of Harvard and former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine that does indeed offer fuel for thought.
Tags:
single payer, Medicaid, Medicare, Angell, HSA, Clinton, Obama, Grace-Marie Turner, Mark Pauly, social media, state reform, President Bush, Part D, prescription drug program, regulation, Leavitt
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Single Payer