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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.1 2 Next >September 18, 2009
It's Not Over YetSenate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus spent much of the summer dancing with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to figure out how to squeeze his health reform bill into its scoring framework and get a positive outcome. Surprise, surprise, he succeeded! The CBO said on Wednesday that the Baucus bill will lead to a "net reduction in the federal budget deficit of $49 billion" over the next 10 years and that 94% of Americans will have health insurance.
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Health Reform September 10, 2009
A Speech, Not a PlanPresident Obama's speech last night soared with oratory but fell flat in delivering on his promise to present details or any substantive new policy initiatives for his health reform plan. He may get a few days of lift from the passion and cheers in the House chambers, but the hard realities of policy will continue to chill prospects for getting sweeping reform legislation enacted.
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Energy and Commerce Committee, Medicaid, fraud, Michael Tanner, Cato Institute, Birthright Israel NEXT, uninsured, Census Bureau, illegal immigrants, American Maggie, National Review Online, The Hill, Martin Feldstein, The Wall Street Journal, Obamacare, Tom Miller, American Enterprise Institute, Health Affairs, health exchange, performance measurements, physicians, BBC, Sen. John Cornyn, Ben Sasse, town halls, health spending, Brookings Institution, America's Health Insurance Plans, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Fee-for-Service
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Health Reform July 24, 2009
Stalling OutHouse leaders and the White House are working furiously to try to get a floor vote on health reform legislation before the August recess, but a rebellion inside the Democratic party and alarm bells from constituents are virtually certain to delay action until the fall. The American people are increasingly focused on the details of the reform plans making their way through Congress, and they don't like what they see.
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President Obama, news conference, The New York Times, Rep. Paul Ryan, Ceci Connolly, The Washington Post, individual mandate, John Fund, The Wall Street Journal, tax credits, uninsured, public plan, Senate Commerce Committee, National Review Online, New York Post, American Affordable Health Choices Act, Lewin Group, John Sheils, Randy Haught, The Heritage Foundation, The American Spectator, nonprofit hospitals, Bradford Gray, Urban Institute, Mark Schlesinger, Yale University, Health Affairs, consumer-driven health, Merrill Matthews, Institute for Policy Innovation, health ownership, John R. Graham, Pacific Research Institute, Medicare fee-for-service, California, America's Health Insurance Plans, Robert Coulam, Simmons College, Roger Feldman, University of Minnesota, Bryan Dowd, Medicare, Medicare Advantage
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Health Reform June 26, 2009
Change Vs. SecurityABC News anchor Charlie Gibson shook his head after Wednesday night's broadcast from the White House, frustrated he had not been able to draw out more details from President Obama about the sweeping health reform plan that he is pushing. Gibson, as well as the doctors, patients, businesspeople, and others in the audience, posed some tough questions. But most of the president's answers came from his standard talking points and went unchallenged. He spoke for 45 minutes of the 75 minutes of actual airtime.
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ABC News, President Obama, health reform, Massachusetts, opinion polls, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Joseph Antos, American Enterprise Institute, John Calfee, public option, single-payer, government-run, Governor Michael Leavitt, Jeffrey Anderson, Pacific Research Institute, The Washington Times, David Brooks, Senate Finance Committee, physicians, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, uninsured, June O'Neill, Dave O'Neill, Employment Policies Institute, socialized medicine, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, RealClearMarkets, National Health Service, New Jersey, Assemblyman Jay Webber, Energy and Commerce Committee
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Health Reform April 17, 2009
Public PlanThe hottest topic in the health reform debate is over the question of whether or not the government should form a new health plan that would compete with private insurance. The reason this is such a big battle is because it is the fight over the future of health care in the United States: The public plan will quickly obliterate private health insurance for the vast majority of working Americans and their families, leaving them with only the "choice" of a government-run plan.
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public plan, video contest, Guatemala, Consensus Group, Kathleen Sebelius, Obama, Dora Hughes, YouTube, APEE, Natasha Richardson, Canada, Europe, Switzerland, individual mandate, The Wall Street Journal, Tom Miller, American Enterprise Institute, The American, uninsured, Keith Hennessey, quality care, Jerome Groopman, Pamela Hartzband, Harvard Medical School, Medicare payments, Benjamin Rush Society, Jason Fodeman, The Heritage Foundation
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Public Plan March 19, 2009
Where's the Money?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
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Tax Treatment of Health Insurance February 27, 2009
Audacity, Indeed!"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
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Health Reform November 21, 2008
The Battles AheadHealth care is being teed up for early action next year, with veterans of the Clinton reform effort convinced their delay in getting legislation to Congress 16 years ago was what killed their plan. Act fast and get it passed, is the new motto. But that may be more of a challenge than it appears right now. People are policy, and the Senate is shaping up to be the power center for action. But there are a lot of competing agendas, egos, and priorities.
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consumer-driven health care, HSAs, physicians, PricewaterhouseCoopers, uninsured, Emanuel, Miller, Parente, Herring, Pauly, prescription drugs, Medicare, SCHIP, Daschle, Kennedy, Bennett, Wyden, health insurance, Obama
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