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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.August 21, 2009
The Heat Is OnThe tide has clearly shifted. I am back from nine days on the road, and in forum after forum, from Virginia to Illinois, to New Mexico, Louisiana, and Ohio, citizens are anxious about health reform and about the Obama administration's aggressive expansion of government spending. While Democratic leaders in Congress and the "Gang of Six" senators pledge to press on with reform, it is hard for me to see how members, especially Democrats in marginal districts, will be able to vote for any version of the bills making their way through Congress.
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Health Reform February 13, 2009
Surreal SpendingThe House is poised to take a final vote on the compromise $800-billion spending bill on, appropriately, Friday the 13th, with the Senate likely to follow soon after. In my 36 years in Washington, I have never seen such a surreal environment, with hundreds of billions of dollars in borrowed taxpayer money being spent without committee hearings or even meaningful public debate over the thousands of new and expanded programs the bill funds.
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stimulus, Medicaid, health information technology, COBRA, mandate, comparative effectiveness, William Winkenwerder, federal health board, innovation, President Bush, Newt Gingrich, Jim Frogue, Center for Health Transformation, HSAs, AHIP, Nadeem Esmail, Fraser Institute, Canada, Dennis Smith, The Heritage Foundation, entitlements,
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Health Reform December 5, 2008
CentralizationMost of the health policy proposals offered so far by President-elect Obama and the Democratic leadership in Congress would require much more centralized control over our health sector. Mr. Obama has promised repeatedly, "If you have health insurance, then you don't have to do anything. If you've got health insurance through your employer, you can keep your health insurance, keep your choice of doctor, keep your plan."
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beagle, Uno, Alan Levine, Bobby Jindal, Louisiana, CoverTN, Phil Bredesen, Tennessee, Medicaid reform, Jeb Bush, Florida, Bob Helms, Medicaid Commission, dual eligibles, capitated model, Lewin Group, Medicaid, accrued debt, Social Security, Medicare, NCPA, Thomas R. Saving, Andrew J. Rettenmaier, Schlander, New York Times, NICE, Britain, health outcomes, universal health care, OECD, Canada, Fraser Institute, Nadeem Esmail, Michael Walker, reform, Council for Excellence in Government, Amy Menefee, Paul Starr, genomics, health care financing, Medicaid, personalized medicine, government run health care, health insurance, Daschle, Obama
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Health Reform October 9, 2008
Health Care WeekHealth care hit the first tier in the presidential election campaigns this week, with charges and counter-charges flying on the campaign trail and in the media. The stack of new papers and articles on my desk out just this week on the health reform debate is an inch thick. Here are some highlights of reports that offer actual facts and new insights.
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Galen Institute, McCain, Obama, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, National Review, Washington Post, Business Roundtable, business, Feldman, HSI Network, Sheils, Lewin Group, prescription drugs, Scott Gottlieb, AEI, counterfeit drugs, India, biologics, Merrill Matthews, IPI, CAHI, voters, health insurance, Canada, wait list, Fraser Institute, Massachusetts, ER
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2008 Election June 20, 2008
Wake-Up CallsKey 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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