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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.June 12, 2009
Trouble BrewingThe first Democratic bill in the hopper this week came from Sen. Kennedy's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, taking 615-pages to turn most of whatever is left of our private health sector over to government. The normally-genteel Sen. Orrin Hatch was quoted in The New York Times this morning as calling the bill "the most liberal bunch of gobbledygook I've seen in my life -- a complete liberal mishmash of ideas." Keith Hennessey, director of the National Economic Council under President Bush, was the first to present a detailed analysis, which you can find here.
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HELP bill, public plan, mandate, AMA, Senate Finance Committee, Medicare, Patients' Choice Act, Paul Ryan, Tom Coburn, comparative effectiveness research, Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research, Massachusetts, Michael Tanner, Cato Institute, tax treatment of health insurance, Robert Helms, American Enterprise Institute, Tom Miller, Karl Rove, The Wall Street Journal, Jeffrey Anderson, Pacific Research Institute, Scott Gottlieb, Coleen Klasmeier, Canada, David Gratzer, Manhattan Institute
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Health Reform January 15, 2009
SCHIP, AgainAs expected, the House rushed to pass a bill on Wednesday to continue funding for the State Children's Health Insurance Program. At 285 pages, you can be sure it delivers a lot more than money. One example: The bill changes the rules of the game, making it much easier for states like New York to put children from families making up to $84,800 a year on this publicly-funded program.
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SCHIP, Hawaii, Booz & Company, innovation, health insurance, health reform, Robert Helms, American Enterprise Institute, Robert Moffit, The Heritage Foundation, Tom Daschle, federal health board, Sally Pipes, Pacific Research Institute, kidney donor, organ donor, Susan Dentzer, New England Journal of Medicine, health care journalism, drug importation, Brian Lee Crowley, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Canada, mandates, health spending, Robert Samuelson, McKinsey Global Institute, Medicare, price controls, Part D, Cheryl Smith, Laura Summers
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State Childrens Health Insurance Program 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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