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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 >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.
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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
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Health Reform June 19, 2009
BombshellsThe 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.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.
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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
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Health Reform May 8, 2009
Setting the Eagle FreeJack Kemp was a visionary leader with an enduring passion for liberty and an unfailing love for the American dream, and the airwaves have been filled this week with testimonials about him and his transformative ideas. I first met Jack Kemp in the 1970s, when he still was a relatively unknown member of Congress and I was a Washington correspondent for the San Diego Union. Jack had played football for the San Diego Chargers before being traded to the Buffalo Bills in 1962. San Diegans were interested in this man they knew as a star quarterback and who now was a congressman from Buffalo talking about cutting taxes to spur economic growth.
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Jack Kemp, Kemp Commission, National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform, Unleashing America's Potential, comparative effectiveness, Senate Finance Committee, public plan, Walt Francis, FEHBP, The Heritage Foundation, Stuart Butler, Merrill Matthews, Council for Affordable Health Insurance, Steve Forbes, Forbes, Canada, Brian Lee Crowley, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, GE, healthymagination, swine flu, Henry Miller, Hoover Institution, Scott Gottlieb, AEI, vaccines, Paul Howard, Manhattan Institute, Medicare, Medicaid, fraud, Jim Frogue, Center for Health Transformation
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Jack Kemp April 24, 2009
Putting Patients FirstSenators Baucus and Kennedy sent a letter to President Obama this week saying their committees plan to vote on comprehensive health reform legislation in early June, which means legislation could be sent to the full Senate for a vote soon afterward. This is an extraordinarily ambitious schedule. The House also expects to send legislation to the floor for a vote this summer, with hopes for final action on a conference agreement in the fall.
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Baucus, Kennedy, Obama, NPR, Kaiser, Harvard, poll, delivery system, health reform, health care costs, comparative effectiveness, PALS, Patient Advocacy Leaders Summit, Amye Leong, Healthy Motivation, Politico, Consensus Group, Governor Michael Leavitt, Jeffrey Anderson, AmericaSpeakOn.org, public plan option, Ceci Connolly, The Washington Post, American Enterprise Institute, health care and pharmaceutical reform, Joe Antos, Tom Miller, Bob Helms, Jack Calfee, Scott Gottlieb, Roger Bate, Gualberto Ruano, Genomas, Paul Howard, Manhattan Institute, genetic prescription system, health care spending, Andrew Rettenmaier, National Center for Policy Analysis
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Health Reform April 3, 2009
Sign the PetitionWould the health reform prescriptions being offered by President Obama and congressional leaders help patients? It seems a fitting question to ask since Mr. Obama has assured Americans they will be able to keep their doctor and their current coverage if they are satisfied and will have even more choices. Our Health Policy Consensus Group took that as a challenge to ask whether the policy prescriptions fit the rhetoric by analyzing the major reform pillars Washington leaders are proposing.
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Obama, petition, Do No Harm, Consensus Group, government-run health insurance, mandates, health insurance exchange, federal health board, comparative effectiveness, National Review Online, The Corner, health reform, Joseph Antos, American Enterprise Institute, American Health & Drug Benefits, Democrats, Robert Pear, The New York Times, GOP, Rep. Paul Ryan, The Wall Street Journal, budget, Medicare, entitlements, Medicaid, biotech, Robert Goldberg, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, Orange County Register, Austin, Texas, ER, Medicaid, emergency room, Integrated Care Collaboration, American-Statesman, Julie Connelly, The New York Times, concierge care
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Health Reform March 27, 2009
The 80% RuleSo much is happening on the health reform front in Washington this week that our heads are spinning, with legislators jockeying for control over procedures, timing, and the content of reform legislation. A number of key provisions in the legislation are clear. The White House and leaders in Congress want to create a new government health insurance plan. They want to impose a mandate that employers pay for health insurance for their workers.They want to create a new National Health Insurance Exchange as a vehicle for strict federal regulation of private health insurance and for distribution of new subsidies for individuals and businesses. They want to expand access to existing price-controlled government health programs. And they may impose a mandate that all individuals have health insurance.
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health reform, mandate, Natasha Richardson, Canada, medevac, comparative effectiveness, Raynard Kington, Milton Friedman, Phil Donahue, greed, Belleville News-Democrat, stimulus, Center of the American Experiment, Amy Menefee, portability, tax treatment of health insurance, John McCain, The Wall Street Journal, employer-based tax deduction, Massachusetts, Congressional Budget Office, The Washington Post, budget, Medicare, J.D. Foster, The Heritage Foundation, cancer, U.K., Europe, The Daily Mail, Eurocare-4, Karol Sikora
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Health Reform March 19, 2009
Where's the Money?The New York Times carried a front page story on Sunday that said the Obama administration "is open to taxing health benefits." Forget the incessant 2008 Obama campaign ads. This is 2009, and they are searching for money to pay for a major overhaul of our health sector. It is important to modernize the tax treatment of health insurance, and we have long supported reform. But we fear the changes they are considering would turn what should be a gentle nudge into a sledgehammer.
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tax treatment of health insurance, The New York Times, Obama, uninsured, employer-based health insurance, John McCain, John Rother, AARP, John Sheils, The Lewin Group, Massachusetts, Jim Capretta, National Review Online, Ethics and Public Policy Center, drug development, comparative effectiveness, Gilbert Ross, American Council on Science and Health, The Washington Times, Wyeth v Levine, John Calfee, American Enterprise Institute, Medicare Part D, prescription drugs, Peter Pitts, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, The Sun, Canada, Brian Lee Crowley, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Lessons from Abroad, cancer care, socialism, David Gratzer, Manhattan Institute, The New Atlantis, government-run health care, Europe, National Business Group on Health, Watson Wyatt, health care costs, consumer-driven plan, David Rehbein, American Legion, The Wall Street Journal, VA, veterans, health benefits
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