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Tag: ArizonaNewslettersOur 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.October 31, 2008
Compare and DecidePolitical and policy leaders in the U.S. see a new system of “comparative effectiveness reviews” as a solution to many of our problems in the health sector. This is coming, so we need to pay attention. We invited a leading European authority to conduct a seminar yesterday for our colleagues in the policy community to give us an overview. The idea is that a government-commissioned entity would “compare” various medical and pharmaceutical treatments to determine which are “effective” and make “recommendations” for care.
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Comparative Effectiveness July 18, 2008
High StakesSen. Barack Obama this week announced a plan designed to help businesses afford health insurance, but the ideas would perpetuate today's problems and add new bureaucracy in the process. Small businesses would get refundable tax credits to offset 50% of the amount they pay for health insurance for their workers and have the government take over a portion of the catastrophic costs of high-cost employees. What's wrong with that? Several things.
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