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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.
July 17, 2009

Steamrolling Ahead

The White House and Democratic leaders appear undaunted in their efforts to push sweeping health reform legislation through Congress in record time, even as the head of the Congressional Budget Office told Congress yesterday that the bills would worsen the federal government's "already bleak budget outlook," increase the deficit, and drive the nation more deeply into debt. Yikes! But worse still, he said the bills won't meet the president's promise of reducing health costs over the long term.
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Congressional Budget Office, House bill, American Medical Association, Max Baucus, Regina Benjamin
Categories:
Health Reform


June 19, 2009

Bombshells

The Congressional Budget Office told the Senate health committee its bill would cost $1 trillion over the next 10 years and would only provide health insurance for a net 16 million more people. It said 15 million would lose their coverage at work and eight million would lose coverage from other sources, leaving 36 million uninsured. Since the goal is to have virtually everyone covered with no deficit spending, this was a double whammy, especially since there is even more spending in the bill that the CBO hasn't yet scored.
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health costs, consumer-driven health plans, Donald Palmisano, Medicaid, Steve Burd, Safeway, comparative effectiveness, Medicare, public plan, Bipartisan Policy Center, American Medical Association, Senate Finance Committee, Congressional Budget Office
Categories:
Health Reform


December 19, 2008

Follow the Money

All 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