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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.
July 21, 2009

Rapid Fire

The biggest news is the letter sent to Congress by 13 of the nation's leading health care delivery systems, including the Mayo Clinic. President Obama has traveled throughout the country extolling the virtues of these integrated care delivery systems, saying that they deliver better value at lower costs and should be a model for the rest of the nation. The problem is, the legislation that already has passed two committees in the House could put them out of business.

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Congressman Kind, Brian Thomas, John Gambling, Joe Thomas, Jefferson Area Tea Party, Senate Commerce Committee, New York Times, New York Post, National Review Online, American Medical Association, Mayo Clinic
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Health Reform


July 17, 2009

Steamrolling Ahead

The White House and Democratic leaders appear undaunted in their efforts to push sweeping health reform legislation through Congress in record time, even as the head of the Congressional Budget Office told Congress yesterday that the bills would worsen the federal government's "already bleak budget outlook," increase the deficit, and drive the nation more deeply into debt. Yikes! But worse still, he said the bills won't meet the president's promise of reducing health costs over the long term.
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Congressional Budget Office, House bill, American Medical Association, Max Baucus, Regina Benjamin
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Health Reform


June 19, 2009

Bombshells

The 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.
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health costs, consumer-driven health plans, Donald Palmisano, Medicaid, Steve Burd, Safeway, comparative effectiveness, Medicare, public plan, Bipartisan Policy Center, American Medical Association, Senate Finance Committee, Congressional Budget Office
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Health Reform


February 20, 2009

The March Continues

With 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