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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.
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Obama, petition, Do No Harm, Consensus Group, government-run health insurance, mandates, health insurance exchange, federal health board, comparative effectiveness, National Review Online, The Corner, health reform, Joseph Antos, American Enterprise Institute, American Health & Drug Benefits, Democrats, Robert Pear, The New York Times, GOP, Rep. Paul Ryan, The Wall Street Journal, budget, Medicare, entitlements, Medicaid, biotech, Robert Goldberg, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, Orange County Register, Austin, Texas, ER, Medicaid, emergency room, Integrated Care Collaboration, American-Statesman, Julie Connelly, The New York Times, concierge care
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.
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health reform, mandate, Natasha Richardson, Canada, medevac, comparative effectiveness, Raynard Kington, Milton Friedman, Phil Donahue, greed, Belleville News-Democrat, stimulus, Center of the American Experiment, Amy Menefee, portability, tax treatment of health insurance, John McCain, The Wall Street Journal, employer-based tax deduction, Massachusetts, Congressional Budget Office, The Washington Post, budget, Medicare, J.D. Foster, The Heritage Foundation, cancer, U.K., Europe, The Daily Mail, Eurocare-4, Karol Sikora
March 19, 2009
The New York Times carried a front page story on Sunday that said the Obama administration "is open to taxing health benefits." Forget the incessant 2008 Obama campaign ads. This is 2009, and they are searching for money to pay for a major overhaul of our health sector. It is important to modernize the tax treatment of health insurance, and we have long supported reform. But we fear the changes they are considering would turn what should be a gentle nudge into a sledgehammer.
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tax treatment of health insurance, The New York Times, Obama, uninsured, employer-based health insurance, John McCain, John Rother, AARP, John Sheils, The Lewin Group, Massachusetts, Jim Capretta, National Review Online, Ethics and Public Policy Center, drug development, comparative effectiveness, Gilbert Ross, American Council on Science and Health, The Washington Times, Wyeth v Levine, John Calfee, American Enterprise Institute, Medicare Part D, prescription drugs, Peter Pitts, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, The Sun, Canada, Brian Lee Crowley, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Lessons from Abroad, cancer care, socialism, David Gratzer, Manhattan Institute, The New Atlantis, government-run health care, Europe, National Business Group on Health, Watson Wyatt, health care costs, consumer-driven plan, David Rehbein, American Legion, The Wall Street Journal, VA, veterans, health benefits
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.
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Lessons from Abroad, International Policy Network, Canada, Europe, U.K., Dr. Ken Thorpe, Emory University, health reform, international health systems, President Obama, government-run health care, Dr. Alphonse Crespo, Switzerland, individual mandate, Dr. Brian Lee Crowley, Dr. Valentin Petkantchin, France, Prof. Wim Groot, the Netherlands, Dr. John Bridges, Australia, Prof. Michael Schlander, Germany, Dr. Karol Sikora, U.K., Brett Skinner, Dr. Tom Price, Dr. Michael Burgess, Grace-Marie Turner, Amy Menefee, White House health reform summit, Aetna HealthFund, Aetna, HSA, HRA, tax treatment of health insurance, Washington Post, Lori Montgomery, small group health insurance, AHIP, health information technology, Dr. Jerome Groopman, Dr. Pamela Hartzband, The Wall Street Journal, electronic medical records, Health Affairs, biopharmaceuticals, pharmaceuticals, spending, PhRMA, health care costs, Sally Pipes, Pacific Research Institute, National Review Online, Medicare Part D, price controls, Merrill Matthews, Council for Affordable Health Insurance, Orlando Sentinel
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.
March 6, 2009
As health reform sped to the top of the policy agenda this week, the timing for our upcoming conference offering some perspective on the debate could not be better. We are hosting, along with the International Policy Network of London, a major conference in Washington this coming Monday that will feature experts in health policy from Europe and Canada to share with us " Lessons from abroad for health reform in the U.S."
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International Policy Network, Lessons from abroad for health reform in the U.S., Europe, Canada, White House summit, President Obama, budget, mandates, universal coverage, government health insurance plan, employment-based health insurance, Hewitt Associates, Grace-Marie Turner, The Insider, health insurance, National Review Online, Kathleen Sebelius, Nancy DeParle, Sally Pipes, Pacific Research Institute, The Wall Street Journal, CBO, Bob Moffit, Nina Owcharenko, Dennis Smith, The Heritage Foundation, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, health care provisions, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, HSAs, Patrick McIlheran, Manitowoc County, labor union, Pioneer Press, Wyeth v. Levine, prescription drugs, Peter Pitts, Bob Goldberg, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, The Washington Times, controlled release drugs, generic drugs, FDA
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.
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Obama, budget, spending, address to Congress, Senate HELP committee, testimony, underinsured, Senator Jeff Bingaman, benefit design, San Diego Union-Tribune, innovation, TelaDoc, regional variation, The New England Journal of Medicine, Dartmouth Atlas Project, Medicare, Watson Wyatt, National Business Group on Health, health care costs, CDHPs, health spending projections, Health Affairs, personal health spending, Massachusetts, Physicians for a National Health Program, Public Citizen, uninsured, Institute of Medicine, Dr. Zeke Emanuel, Ben Sasse, Investor's Business Daily, Bob Moffit, The Heritage Foundation, Pathways, disparities, prescription drugs, generic drugs, Peter Pitts, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, The Examiner
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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SCHIP, stimulus, HHS, Kathleen Sebelius, HSAs, Ben Zycher, Manhattan Institute, concierge medicine, Melinda Beck, The Wall Street Journal, Society for Innovative Practice Design, Massachusetts, focused factories, Regina Herzlinger, Manhattan Institute, Harvard Business School, Wal-Mart, Ceci Connolly, The Washington Post, Peter Pitts, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, comparative effectiveness, leadership, Donald Palmisano, American Medical Association
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