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Tag: health insuranceNewslettersOur 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.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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Health Reform November 6, 2008
A New Path to ProsperityWhen Pennsylvania and later Iowa -- two key battleground states -- turned blue on the maps on election night, the race was over. While other Western swing states eventually turned blue as well, it was clear the presidential election had been decided in the Rust Belt. Too many people in these Midwestern states are being left behind in the competitive global economy. They have solid work ethics, and many once held high-paying jobs in factories that have since closed. The hope of the last quarter century that their jobs would return has become resignation for many. They feel left behind in the transition to an Information-Age, globally competitive economy.
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election, Obama, health insurance, Blendon, Krugman, subsidies, Netherlands, Johnny Munkhammar, Helen Disney, Stockholm Network, David Kendall, PPI, Mayo Clinic, Medicare Part D, prescription drugs
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2008 Election October 17, 2008
Politics and PolicyPolitics and complex policy are a dangerous mix, as we see in the presidential election campaign debate over health care. "Sen. McCain, for the first time, is going to be taxing the health care benefits that you have from your employer," Sen. Obama said during Wednesday's debate. "For the first time in history, you will be taxing people's health care benefits."
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McCain, Obama, tax treatment of health insurance, employer-based health insurance, tax, Hawaii, SCHIP, health insurance, Grassley, Baucus, Brian Lee Crowley, Canada, physicians, costs, health confidence, EBRI, consumer-driven health care, HSAs, health savings accounts, HealthGrades, hospitals, health care ratings, quality, millennial, CMPI, Heritage, Medicare
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2008 Election 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 October 3, 2008
Massachusetts to San FranciscoMassachusetts has won another round in its effort to get U.S. taxpayers to help fund its experiment in universal coverage. Gov. Deval Patrick announced Tuesday that the federal government has approved an extension of its waiver, allowing the state to continue to provide Medicaid subsidies to people making as much as $63,600 a year. Federal taxpayers will be paying nearly $11 billion to help the Bay State fund its $21-billion health reform plan over the next three years.
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Massachusetts, McCain, Obama, San Francisco, biologics, Europe, health insurance, Canada, Medicare, Medicaid, vaccines
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Massachusetts September 26, 2008
Reality vs. RhetoricWhile the financial markets roil, the health reform debate is boiling up on the campaign trail where the reality of the policies that are being offered is out of sync with the rhetoric of the promises. While Sen. John McCain's health reform plan is being labeled as "radical" by many critics, in fact the changes that he is proposing are designed to save the private health sector and bring 21st century information and efficiencies to health insurance and health care.September 12, 2008
Equality, Free-Riders, Elvis, and MoreCosts are the defining issue in the health care debate, and Brookings Institution economist Gary Burtless offers some revealing new data showing the remarkably equal distribution of health spending among Americans in all income categories.August 1, 2008
Slowly, SlowlyThe Senate Finance Committee got to the heart of the issue during a hearing yesterday on "Health Benefits in the Tax Code: The Right Incentives." Three prominent economists were in solidarity in targeting the tax treatment of health insurance as key to health reform. The value of the subsidy for job-based health insurance was a whopping $245 billion in 2007, according to Eward Kleinbard, chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation. (This compares to government spending of $372 billion that year for Medicare and $340 billion for Medicaid.)
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