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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.
August 28, 2009
Sen. Kennedy was both respected and liked by colleagues on both sides of the aisle during his remarkable 47 years in the Senate. While he always was firm in his liberal views and we seldom agreed with him, Sen. Kennedy did listen to his Republican colleagues and worked to forge compromises. That bipartisan spirit has been markedly missing during his absence from the Senate this year. The health reform legislation making its way through Congress is rigid and aggressively liberal, without any evidence of bipartisanship, and it is rightly facing a firestorm of opposition.
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Commonwealth Fund, premiums, Massachusetts, The Boston Globe, Kay Lazar, health sharing ministries, CURE, Star Parker, health co-ops, Steven Mufson, polls, Forbes.com, Karlyn Bowman, tax treatment of health insurance, mandates, RealClearMarkets, Manhattan Institute, Steven Malanga, New York Post, Pacific Research Institute, Sally Pipes, CNNMoney, Shawn Tully, Baylor University, Earl Grinols, individual mandate, The Washington Post, Lee Casey, David Rivkin, health insurance, American Enterprise Institute, Jeet Guram, Joe Antos, Green Bay Press-Gazette, National Review Online, The Heritage Foundation, public option, John Hoff, Steamboat Institute, health insurance exchange, Utah, town hall meetings, Rep. Jim Moran, Democratic National Committee, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Russ Feingold, Sen. Edward Kennedy
July 24, 2009
House leaders and the White House are working furiously to try to get a floor vote on health reform legislation before the August recess, but a rebellion inside the Democratic party and alarm bells from constituents are virtually certain to delay action until the fall. The American people are increasingly focused on the details of the reform plans making their way through Congress, and they don't like what they see.
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President Obama, news conference, The New York Times, Rep. Paul Ryan, Ceci Connolly, The Washington Post, individual mandate, John Fund, The Wall Street Journal, tax credits, uninsured, public plan, Senate Commerce Committee, National Review Online, New York Post, American Affordable Health Choices Act, Lewin Group, John Sheils, Randy Haught, The Heritage Foundation, The American Spectator, nonprofit hospitals, Bradford Gray, Urban Institute, Mark Schlesinger, Yale University, Health Affairs, consumer-driven health, Merrill Matthews, Institute for Policy Innovation, health ownership, John R. Graham, Pacific Research Institute, Medicare fee-for-service, California, America's Health Insurance Plans, Robert Coulam, Simmons College, Roger Feldman, University of Minnesota, Bryan Dowd, Medicare, Medicare Advantage
June 26, 2009
ABC 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.
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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
June 12, 2009
The 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
March 13, 2009
"So many lessons, so little time." That was how Brian Lee Crowley of Canada led off his remarks at our major conference, "Lessons from abroad for health reform in the U.S." on Monday, co-sponsored by the Galen Institute and the International Policy Network in London. The presentations by noted experts from Canada, the U.K., and Europe were splendid and offered a sober warning to U.S. policymakers about embarking on a path toward giving government more power and control over health care and health coverage.
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Lessons from Abroad, International Policy Network, Canada, Europe, U.K., Dr. Ken Thorpe, Emory University, health reform, international health systems, President Obama, government-run health care, Dr. Alphonse Crespo, Switzerland, individual mandate, Dr. Brian Lee Crowley, Dr. Valentin Petkantchin, France, Prof. Wim Groot, the Netherlands, Dr. John Bridges, Australia, Prof. Michael Schlander, Germany, Dr. Karol Sikora, U.K., Brett Skinner, Dr. Tom Price, Dr. Michael Burgess, Grace-Marie Turner, Amy Menefee, White House health reform summit, Aetna HealthFund, Aetna, HSA, HRA, tax treatment of health insurance, Washington Post, Lori Montgomery, small group health insurance, AHIP, health information technology, Dr. Jerome Groopman, Dr. Pamela Hartzband, The Wall Street Journal, electronic medical records, Health Affairs, biopharmaceuticals, pharmaceuticals, spending, PhRMA, health care costs, Sally Pipes, Pacific Research Institute, National Review Online, Medicare Part D, price controls, Merrill Matthews, Council for Affordable Health Insurance, Orlando Sentinel
March 6, 2009
As 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
January 15, 2009
As 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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