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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.October 31, 2008
Compare and DecidePolitical and policy leaders in the U.S. see a new system of “comparative effectiveness reviews” as a solution to many of our problems in the health sector. This is coming, so we need to pay attention. We invited a leading European authority to conduct a seminar yesterday for our colleagues in the policy community to give us an overview. The idea is that a government-commissioned entity would “compare” various medical and pharmaceutical treatments to determine which are “effective” and make “recommendations” for care.
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Comparative Effectiveness October 24, 2008
Thinking Toward 2009Washington is not waiting for the November 4 election results to begin planning its health reform agenda for next year. The Washington Times reports today that Sen. Ted Kennedy is taking a leading role: "From his sickbed, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has secretly been orchestrating meetings with lobbyists and lawmakers from both parties to craft legislation that would greet the new president with a plan to provide affordable medical coverage to all Americans, a measure he has called 'the cause of my life.'"October 9, 2008
Health Care WeekHealth care hit the first tier in the presidential election campaigns this week, with charges and counter-charges flying on the campaign trail and in the media. The stack of new papers and articles on my desk out just this week on the health reform debate is an inch thick. Here are some highlights of reports that offer actual facts and new insights.
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2008 Election October 3, 2008
Massachusetts to San FranciscoMassachusetts has won another round in its effort to get U.S. taxpayers to help fund its experiment in universal coverage. Gov. Deval Patrick announced Tuesday that the federal government has approved an extension of its waiver, allowing the state to continue to provide Medicaid subsidies to people making as much as $63,600 a year. Federal taxpayers will be paying nearly $11 billion to help the Bay State fund its $21-billion health reform plan over the next three years.
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Massachusetts, McCain, Obama, San Francisco, biologics, Europe, health insurance, Canada, Medicare, Medicaid, vaccines
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Massachusetts September 5, 2008
A Tale of Twin CitiesIn addition to all of the televised political activities this week in the Twin Cities, there also were a number of serious policy discussions taking place. I spoke at several of them, including forums on health care organized by Congressional Quarterly and the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. More on those in a minute. But first, I attended a breakfast hosted by PhRMA at the Science Museum in St. Paul featuring Emmy Award-winning talk show host Montel Williams, who spoke about the pain and daily challenges of his 20-year struggle with multiple sclerosis.August 1, 2008
Slowly, SlowlyThe Senate Finance Committee got to the heart of the issue during a hearing yesterday on "Health Benefits in the Tax Code: The Right Incentives." Three prominent economists were in solidarity in targeting the tax treatment of health insurance as key to health reform. The value of the subsidy for job-based health insurance was a whopping $245 billion in 2007, according to Eward Kleinbard, chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation. (This compares to government spending of $372 billion that year for Medicare and $340 billion for Medicaid.)
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Tax Treatment of Health Insurance May 1, 2008
White Water ThreatAmerica's Health Insurance Plans yesterday released its latest estimates of the number of people who have health insurance that would qualify them to have Health Savings Accounts. The number is up 35% over last year to 6.1 million, showing their growing appeal. |
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