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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 12, 2009

Trouble Brewing

The first Democratic bill in the hopper this week came from Sen. Kennedy's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, taking 615-pages to turn most of whatever is left of our private health sector over to government. The normally-genteel Sen. Orrin Hatch was quoted in The New York Times this morning as calling the bill "the most liberal bunch of gobbledygook I've seen in my life -- a complete liberal mishmash of ideas." Keith Hennessey, director of the National Economic Council under President Bush, was the first to present a detailed analysis, which you can find here.
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HELP bill, public plan, mandate, AMA, Senate Finance Committee, Medicare, Patients' Choice Act, Paul Ryan, Tom Coburn, comparative effectiveness research, Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research, Massachusetts, Michael Tanner, Cato Institute, tax treatment of health insurance, Robert Helms, American Enterprise Institute, Tom Miller, Karl Rove, The Wall Street Journal, Jeffrey Anderson, Pacific Research Institute, Scott Gottlieb, Coleen Klasmeier, Canada, David Gratzer, Manhattan Institute
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Health Reform


June 5, 2009

Short Takes

Rep. Paul Ryan spoke at a day-long conference at the American Enterprise Institute yesterday, warning that a public plan option is becoming the linchpin in the health reform debate. He said that a health reform bill creating a new government health insurance plan will be approved by the House "no two ways about that" and that the provision likely will be included in the Senate bill as well.
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public plan, Consensus Group, individual mandate, cost, video contest, Paul Ryan, Patients' Choice Act, Ron Pollack, Families USA, Don Brookins, David Knight, Jarrett Skorup, Kaiser News Service, Ryan Ellis, Americans for Tax Reform, international health systems, swine flu, Jack Calfee, pandemic, antivirals, Tom Miller, American Enterprise Institute, educational attainment, The Wall Street Journal, Victoria Craig Bunce, JP Wieske, Council for Affordable Health Insurance, Robert Moffit, The Heritage Foundation, wait times, Massachusetts, Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, Joe Antos, McAllen, Texas, Tevi Troy, Hudson Institute
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Health Reform


July 11, 2008

Outside the Box

There really wasn't a controversy about whether to delay Medicare's scheduled cuts in physician fees, but you'd never know it from reading about this issue in the mainstream media over the last month. Both sides wanted to undo the cuts, but the real debate was over how to pay for the "fix" since the cuts were built into the federal budget. The leadership's solution was to get the money from the popular Medicare Advantage program, particularly private Medicare fee-for-service plans.
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Medicare, physician fees, Paul Ryan, Roadmap for America's Future, HSAs, World Health Organization, international health systems, Joe Antos, Medicare, PhRMA, mandates, John Graham, The Heritage Foundation, Greg D'Angelo, Edmund Haislmaier, Medicaid, fraud, medical tourism, health care polls
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Medicare