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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.
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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Health Reform