|
||
|
SEARCH BY KEYWORD
|
Tag: physicians
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 >October 2, 2009
Beltway HothouseLet's hope this is the darkness before the dawn because the feeling in Washington right now is gloomy among those who believe in freedom, markets, and individual control over health care decisions. Congress is plowing ahead to get health reform done this year, no matter what the American people may think about it. Both the Senate and House have cancelled a Columbus Day recess this month to keep members in the Beltway hothouse and give them less of a chance to go home and meet with their constituents.
Tags:
Senate Finance Committee, physicians, Denis Cortese Mayo Clinic, Delos Cosgrove, Cleveland Clinic, Kaiser, Independence Institute, Jon Caldara, Canada, Colorado, health co-ops, David Goldhill, Tom Miller, American Enterprise Institute, comparative effectiveness, Rand Corporation, Medicare Advantage, Fred Barnes, The Weekly Standard, Massachusetts
Categories:
Health Reform September 18, 2009
It's Not Over YetSenate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus spent much of the summer dancing with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to figure out how to squeeze his health reform bill into its scoring framework and get a positive outcome. Surprise, surprise, he succeeded! The CBO said on Wednesday that the Baucus bill will lead to a "net reduction in the federal budget deficit of $49 billion" over the next 10 years and that 94% of Americans will have health insurance.
Tags:
Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus, Congressional Budget Office, The New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Galen highlights, Utah, Utah Health Insurance Exchange, Forbes, Kaiser Family Foundation, Health Research & Educational Trust, employer benefits, insurance premiums, Joseph Antos, American Enterprise Institute, public plan, hospitals, private health insurance, Health Affairs, Dobson DaVanzo and Associates LLC, Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, Massachusetts, The Boston Globe, Massachusetts Medical Society, physicians, Craig Richardson, individual mandate, employer mandate, Commonwealth Care, uninsured, Tom Miller, Joint Economic Committee, pharmaceuticals, David Griller, Daniel Denis, SECOR, Canada, malpractice, Philip Howard, The Atlantic, retail health clinics, The Washington Post
Categories:
Health Reform September 10, 2009
A Speech, Not a PlanPresident Obama's speech last night soared with oratory but fell flat in delivering on his promise to present details or any substantive new policy initiatives for his health reform plan. He may get a few days of lift from the passion and cheers in the House chambers, but the hard realities of policy will continue to chill prospects for getting sweeping reform legislation enacted.
Tags:
Energy and Commerce Committee, Medicaid, fraud, Michael Tanner, Cato Institute, Birthright Israel NEXT, uninsured, Census Bureau, illegal immigrants, American Maggie, National Review Online, The Hill, Martin Feldstein, The Wall Street Journal, Obamacare, Tom Miller, American Enterprise Institute, Health Affairs, health exchange, performance measurements, physicians, BBC, Sen. John Cornyn, Ben Sasse, town halls, health spending, Brookings Institution, America's Health Insurance Plans, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Fee-for-Service
Categories:
Health Reform June 26, 2009
Change Vs. SecurityABC News anchor Charlie Gibson shook his head after Wednesday night's broadcast from the White House, frustrated he had not been able to draw out more details from President Obama about the sweeping health reform plan that he is pushing. Gibson, as well as the doctors, patients, businesspeople, and others in the audience, posed some tough questions. But most of the president's answers came from his standard talking points and went unchallenged. He spoke for 45 minutes of the 75 minutes of actual airtime.
Tags:
ABC News, President Obama, health reform, Massachusetts, opinion polls, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Joseph Antos, American Enterprise Institute, John Calfee, public option, single-payer, government-run, Governor Michael Leavitt, Jeffrey Anderson, Pacific Research Institute, The Washington Times, David Brooks, Senate Finance Committee, physicians, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, uninsured, June O'Neill, Dave O'Neill, Employment Policies Institute, socialized medicine, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, RealClearMarkets, National Health Service, New Jersey, Assemblyman Jay Webber, Energy and Commerce Committee
Categories:
Health Reform 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.
Tags:
Society for Innovative Medical Practice Design, MDVIP, Kevin Sack, concierge medicine, personalized health, AHIP, HDHP, HSA, high-deductible health plan, health savings account, comparative effectiveness, NICE, Britain, Imperial College School of Medicine, Karol Sikora, Eli Lilly and Company, John Lechleiter, innovation, private health insurance, Medicare, administrative cost, BNA, William Schiffbauer, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Yuval Levin, Jim Capretta, Economix, tax credits, National Review, physicians, American Enterprise Institute, Scott Gottlieb, Cato Institute, Michael Cannon, stimulus bill, The Wall Street Journal, tax treatment of health insurance, Uwe Reinhardt, Pfizer, Senate Finance Committee, public plan, National Health Insurance Exchange, mandates, Medicare Trustees Report, Nancy-Ann DeParle, America's Health Insurance Plans, American Hospital Association, health spending
Categories:
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.
Tags:
consumer-driven health care, HSAs, physicians, PricewaterhouseCoopers, uninsured, Emanuel, Miller, Parente, Herring, Pauly, prescription drugs, Medicare, SCHIP, Daschle, Kennedy, Bennett, Wyden, health insurance, Obama
Categories:
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."
Tags:
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
Categories:
2008 Election June 13, 2008
DrumbeatsThe Commonwealth Fund continues its advocacy for universal coverage and a larger role for government in our health sector with a new paper in Health Affairs: It cites the rising number of people with health coverage that does not adequately protect them from high medical expenses — the under-insured.
Tags:
Commonwealth, universal coverage, underinsured, Italy, Istituto Bruno Leoni, doctors, physicians, Turner, Obama, Capretta, Pipes, biologics, America's Health Insurance Plans, Williams, uninsured, Aetna, Senate Finance Committee, Ramthun, HSA, health savings account, high deductible
Categories:
Universal Coverage 1 2 Next > |
|