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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.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 March 6, 2009
PerspectiveAs health reform sped to the top of the policy agenda this week, the timing for our upcoming conference offering some perspective on the debate could not be better. We are hosting, along with the International Policy Network of London, a major conference in Washington this coming Monday that will feature experts in health policy from Europe and Canada to share with us "Lessons from abroad for health reform in the U.S."
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International Policy Network, Lessons from abroad for health reform in the U.S., Europe, Canada, White House summit, President Obama, budget, mandates, universal coverage, government health insurance plan, employment-based health insurance, Hewitt Associates, Grace-Marie Turner, The Insider, health insurance, National Review Online, Kathleen Sebelius, Nancy DeParle, Sally Pipes, Pacific Research Institute, The Wall Street Journal, CBO, Bob Moffit, Nina Owcharenko, Dennis Smith, The Heritage Foundation, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, health care provisions, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, HSAs, Patrick McIlheran, Manitowoc County, labor union, Pioneer Press, Wyeth v. Levine, prescription drugs, Peter Pitts, Bob Goldberg, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, The Washington Times, controlled release drugs, generic drugs, FDA
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Health Reform February 27, 2009
Audacity, Indeed!"Surreal Spending" was the title of one of our recent newsletters, but that doesn't begin to capture the unbelievable trillions of dollars that Congress and the Obama administration announced this week. It started out, first, with $33 billion more to expand SCHIP, then another $350 billion for the bank bailout, then $800 billion for the stimulus package, $410 billion to fund parts of the government for the rest of this fiscal year, and now a $3.6 trillion budget for 2010, with a $1.75 trillion deficit and a $634 billion "down payment" on health reform.
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Obama, budget, spending, address to Congress, Senate HELP committee, testimony, underinsured, Senator Jeff Bingaman, benefit design, San Diego Union-Tribune, innovation, TelaDoc, regional variation, The New England Journal of Medicine, Dartmouth Atlas Project, Medicare, Watson Wyatt, National Business Group on Health, health care costs, CDHPs, health spending projections, Health Affairs, personal health spending, Massachusetts, Physicians for a National Health Program, Public Citizen, uninsured, Institute of Medicine, Dr. Zeke Emanuel, Ben Sasse, Investor's Business Daily, Bob Moffit, The Heritage Foundation, Pathways, disparities, prescription drugs, generic drugs, Peter Pitts, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, The Examiner
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Health Reform February 20, 2009
The March ContinuesWith a major expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program in place and more than $150 billion in health spending authorized in the stimulus bill, the Obama administration already is well on its way to significantly increasing the role of government in our health sector.
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SCHIP, stimulus, HHS, Kathleen Sebelius, HSAs, Ben Zycher, Manhattan Institute, concierge medicine, Melinda Beck, The Wall Street Journal, Society for Innovative Practice Design, Massachusetts, focused factories, Regina Herzlinger, Manhattan Institute, Harvard Business School, Wal-Mart, Ceci Connolly, The Washington Post, Peter Pitts, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, comparative effectiveness, leadership, Donald Palmisano, American Medical Association
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Health Reform April 18, 2008
Good News and BadThe 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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