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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.
October 17, 2008

Politics and Policy

Politics 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


September 26, 2008

Reality vs. Rhetoric

While 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.
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McCain, Obama, AEI, Tom Miller, Joe Antos, health insurance, employer health benefits, Census Bureau, uninsured, Massachusetts, innovation, medical licensing, health savings accounts, risk segmentation
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2008 Election


September 19, 2008

Health Credits and Drug Importation

Health Affairs this week focused on the health plans of the leading presidential candidates, but misunderstanding and even misrepresentation of Sen. John McCain's health policy proposal continues to confuse the debate. Tom Buchmueller, Sherry Glied, Anne Royalty, and Katherine Swartz wrote a critique of selected aspects of the McCain plan but ignored key aspects of it which I believe would mitigate many of their criticisms.
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McCain, Obama, Health Affairs, tax credits, insurance, health credit, importation, Medicare, prescription drugs, health care reform, Canada, dentist, UK, Medicaid, premium assistance, SCHIP
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2008 Election