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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.
January 23, 2009

Leaping Into Reform

Congress is progressing toward major health reform in just the first few weeks of this year, but cracks in support already are starting to show. The Senate is expected to debate a significant expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program next week, with passage virtually assured. It would pour tens of billions more into the program and allow states to expand publicly-funded health insurance to children in families earning well over $100,000 a year.
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