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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.1 2 Next >February 6, 2009
What Next?The health policy landscape was transformed by a huge earthquake this week when former Sen. Tom Daschle withdrew his name for nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services. The likely result, in the short term at least, is that the power center in health reform will remain with the Congress, not the Obama administration.
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Health Affairs, Sebastian Schneeweiss, Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy, The Brookings Institution, S. Lawrence Kocot, Joshua Benner, American Enterprise Institute, Scott Gottlieb, Institute of Economic Affairs, United Kingdom, Nurses for Reform, Helen Evans, Bruce Phillips, Michael Chow, NFIB, William Dennis, The Weekly Standard, Tevi Troy, National Journal, Washington Times, Grace-Marie Turner, Amy Menefee, prescription drug program, Medicare Part D, comparative effectiveness, small business, employer-provided health insurance, mandates, Medicaid, stimulus, SCHIP, HHS, Tom Daschle
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Health Reform January 23, 2009
Leaping Into ReformCongress is progressing toward major health reform in just the first few weeks of this year, but cracks in support already are starting to show. The Senate is expected to debate a significant expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program next week, with passage virtually assured. It would pour tens of billions more into the program and allow states to expand publicly-funded health insurance to children in families earning well over $100,000 a year.
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underpayments, Medicare, Milliman, AHIP, cost shift, Adam Smith, national health system, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Brian Ferguson, Canada, PharmaTimes, cancer drugs, United Kingdom, NICE, American Enterprise Institute, Scott Gottlieb, stimulus plan, unemployed workers, Dennis Smith, Nina Owcharenko, The Heritage Foundation, Robert Book, economic stimulus, Health Affairs, federal health board, information technology, comparative effectiveness, Max Baucus, Tom Daschle, Medicaid, COBRA, SCHIP, health reform
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Health Reform 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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Congressional Budget Office, reform, estimates, tax treatment of health insurance, tax credits, HSAs, play or pay, mandate, reinsurance, Part D, Medicare, Medicaid, rebates, comparative effectiveness, AHPs, cross-state purchasing, U.K., Putting People First, Massachusetts, Boston Globe, private health insurance, Grace-Marie Turner, SCHIP, Joel White, Wyeth, prescription drugs, David Cutler, Health Affairs, James Capretta, Jindal, insurance, Robert Helms, Robert Moffit, federal health board, Ezekiel Emanuel, Ron Wyden, employment-based health insurance, health savings accounts, account-based health plans
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Health Reform 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 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 19, 2008
Health Credits and Drug ImportationHealth 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 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.April 11, 2008
Join Us!Please mark your calendars now to join us on Tuesday, April 29, for a major address on Medicare featuring HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt. The program, which we will jointly host with several other think tanks, begins at 9:45 a.m. at the brand new Newseum at 555 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. This will be the secretary's major address on the massive threat that Medicare and other entitlement programs present to our nation's economy, followed by a forum featuring experts presenting their ideas and research on solutions.
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health savings accounts, substantiation, HSA, Medicaid, Massachusetts, universal coverage, individual mandate, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, prescription drugs, SCHIP
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