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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.
April 18, 2008

Good News and Bad

The House passed legislation on Tuesday, the mis-named "Taxpayer Assistance and Simplification Act," that contained the awful provision that would throw a mountain of paperwork at Health Savings Accounts. But the good news is that the White House sent a letter to Congress warning that President Bush would veto the tax bill if it contains the HSA provision.
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Events, HSAs, insurance, Medicaid, Leavitt, Taxpayer Assistance and Simplification Act, BlackBerry, NFIB, Medicare, reform, evidence-based medicine, physicians, organ transplants, kidney donation, single-payer health care, Maryland, Canada, Joseph Antos, Peter Pitts, Sally Satel, AIMS
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Medicaid, HSAs, Health Reform