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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.

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April 3, 2009
Would the health reform prescriptions being offered by President Obama and congressional leaders help patients? It seems a fitting question to ask since Mr. Obama has assured Americans they will be able to keep their doctor and their current coverage if they are satisfied and will have even more choices. Our Health Policy Consensus Group took that as a challenge to ask whether the policy prescriptions fit the rhetoric by analyzing the major reform pillars Washington leaders are proposing.



March 27, 2009
So much is happening on the health reform front in Washington this week that our heads are spinning, with legislators jockeying for control over procedures, timing, and the content of reform legislation. A number of key provisions in the legislation are clear. The White House and leaders in Congress want to create a new government health insurance plan. They want to impose a mandate that employers pay for health insurance for their workers.They want to create a new National Health Insurance Exchange as a vehicle for strict federal regulation of private health insurance and for distribution of new subsidies for individuals and businesses. They want to expand access to existing price-controlled government health programs. And they may impose a mandate that all individuals have health insurance.

 







March 13, 2009
"So many lessons, so little time." That was how Brian Lee Crowley of Canada led off his remarks at our major conference, "Lessons from abroad for health reform in the U.S." on Monday, co-sponsored by the Galen Institute and the International Policy Network in London. The presentations by noted experts from Canada, the U.K., and Europe were splendid and offered a sober warning to U.S. policymakers about embarking on a path toward giving government more power and control over health care and health coverage.



March 8, 2009

March 9, 2009
8:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Washington, DC

Galen Institute and International Policy Network event featuring speakers from France, Germany, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Canada and Switzerland.

Click here for conference materials.

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February 27, 2009
"Surreal Spending" was the title of one of our recent newsletters, but that doesn't begin to capture the unbelievable trillions of dollars that Congress and the Obama administration announced this week. It started out, first, with $33 billion more to expand SCHIP, then another $350 billion for the bank bailout, then $800 billion for the stimulus package, $410 billion to fund parts of the government for the rest of this fiscal year, and now a $3.6 trillion budget for 2010, with a $1.75 trillion deficit and a $634 billion "down payment" on health reform.



February 20, 2009
With a major expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program in place and more than $150 billion in health spending authorized in the stimulus bill, the Obama administration already is well on its way to significantly increasing the role of government in our health sector.



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