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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.
September 5, 2008

A Tale of Twin Cities

In addition to all of the televised political activities this week in the Twin Cities, there also were a number of serious policy discussions taking place. I spoke at several of them, including forums on health care organized by Congressional Quarterly and the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. More on those in a minute. But first, I attended a breakfast hosted by PhRMA at the Science Museum in St. Paul featuring Emmy Award-winning talk show host Montel Williams, who spoke about the pain and daily challenges of his 20-year struggle with multiple sclerosis.
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Healthy Americans Act, patient assistance programs, prescription drugs, McCain, Palin, state issues, tax treatment of health insurance, uninsured, health reform, NHS, Medicaid, Obama
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Health Reform