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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 26, 2009

Change Vs. Security

ABC 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


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