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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.December 19, 2008
Follow the MoneyAll roads to new legislation in Washington run through the Congressional Budget Office, and the CBO yesterday offered health policy makers a menu of 115 choices of reform initiatives, with price tags attached. It's like a shopping list for policy makers, who, using our money, will mix and match ideas and offer new ones of their own.
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Health Reform 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 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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