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NewslettersOur 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.May 15, 2009
Health Care BrouhahaThe White House and its allies cheered on Monday when President Obama announced that six health groups had pledged to reduce the growth of health spending by 1.5 percent a year for the next 10 years. The president called it a "watershed event," saying that this could save as much as $2 trillion over a decade. But when the actual members of the organizations heard the news, all hell broke loose.
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Health Reform February 27, 2009
Audacity, Indeed!"Surreal Spending" was the title of one of our recent newsletters, but that doesn't begin to capture the unbelievable trillions of dollars that Congress and the Obama administration announced this week. It started out, first, with $33 billion more to expand SCHIP, then another $350 billion for the bank bailout, then $800 billion for the stimulus package, $410 billion to fund parts of the government for the rest of this fiscal year, and now a $3.6 trillion budget for 2010, with a $1.75 trillion deficit and a $634 billion "down payment" on health reform.
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Obama, budget, spending, address to Congress, Senate HELP committee, testimony, underinsured, Senator Jeff Bingaman, benefit design, San Diego Union-Tribune, innovation, TelaDoc, regional variation, The New England Journal of Medicine, Dartmouth Atlas Project, Medicare, Watson Wyatt, National Business Group on Health, health care costs, CDHPs, health spending projections, Health Affairs, personal health spending, Massachusetts, Physicians for a National Health Program, Public Citizen, uninsured, Institute of Medicine, Dr. Zeke Emanuel, Ben Sasse, Investor's Business Daily, Bob Moffit, The Heritage Foundation, Pathways, disparities, prescription drugs, generic drugs, Peter Pitts, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, The Examiner
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Health Reform February 13, 2009
Surreal SpendingThe House is poised to take a final vote on the compromise $800-billion spending bill on, appropriately, Friday the 13th, with the Senate likely to follow soon after. In my 36 years in Washington, I have never seen such a surreal environment, with hundreds of billions of dollars in borrowed taxpayer money being spent without committee hearings or even meaningful public debate over the thousands of new and expanded programs the bill funds.
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stimulus, Medicaid, health information technology, COBRA, mandate, comparative effectiveness, William Winkenwerder, federal health board, innovation, President Bush, Newt Gingrich, Jim Frogue, Center for Health Transformation, HSAs, AHIP, Nadeem Esmail, Fraser Institute, Canada, Dennis Smith, The Heritage Foundation, entitlements,
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Health Reform January 30, 2009
Stealth ReformCongressional leaders are arguing over whether they'll get a comprehensive health reform bill passed this year or next. But, in fact, major health reform is speeding through Congress in two bills that are on the fast track to enactment -- SCHIP and the economic stimulus bill. Expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program to children in families well into middle-income ranges passed the Senate yesterday and will likely be signed into law by President Obama early next week.
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social contract, The Heritage Foundation, Stuart Butler, Dartmouth, Shannon Brownlee, John Wennberg, health care spending, International Policy Network, Philip Stevens, Julian Harris, counterfeit drugs, value, Accountable Care Organization, Mark McClellan, Health Affairs, Medicare, Manhattan Institute, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, George Will, U.S. health sector, innovation, TelaDoc, Aetna, Assurant Health, Grace-Marie Turner, stimulus, HIT, Tom Daschle, comparative effectiveness, COBRA, mandate, entitlement, SCHIP
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State Childrens Health Insurance Program January 15, 2009
SCHIP, AgainAs expected, the House rushed to pass a bill on Wednesday to continue funding for the State Children's Health Insurance Program. At 285 pages, you can be sure it delivers a lot more than money. One example: The bill changes the rules of the game, making it much easier for states like New York to put children from families making up to $84,800 a year on this publicly-funded program.
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State Childrens Health Insurance Program 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. |
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