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Health Care Financing Reform: (67) The Reid Bill and the CBO Estimate

November 19, 2009

     Hallelujah!  Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-NV) has released the "Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act" – his melding of the health care reform bills that had been approved by the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate HELP Committee.  In addition, the Congressional Budget Office has released its estimate of the effect of the [...]

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Health Care Financing Reform: (66) Mammography Guidelines from the USPSTF

November 18, 2009

     The United States Preventive Services Task Force has issued recommendations against using mammograms for routine screening for breast cancer among women 40-49, and recommends screening only every two years after age 50.  What timing!

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Health Care Financing Reform: (65) Business Roundtable Report Supports Senate Finance Committee Plan and Opposes Public Option

November 15, 2009

     The Business Roundtable has issued an enlightening and informative report on health care financing reform.  The Roundtable is concerned primarily with reducing the cost of health care, not with expanding coverage to the uninsured.  The Roundtable's position and the contents of the report are summarized below.

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Health Care Financing Reform: (64) CMS Report on H.R. 3962 – Expanded Coverage, No Effect on Total Cost of Health Care

November 14, 2009

     The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services has released its report on the effect of H.R. 3962, the health care reform bill adopted by the House of Representatives.  There is very good news and very bad news.

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Study says 2,200 uninsured veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance.

November 11, 2009

A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they lacked health insurance and thus had reduced access to care. That figure is more than 14 times the number of deaths (155) suffered by U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2008, and more than twice as [...]

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Health Care Financing Reform: (63) Commonwealth Fund Report on Primary Care

November 10, 2009

     The Commonwealth Fund surveyed thousands of primary care physicians from several industrialized countries.  The findings help to explain why Americans pay so much more for health care but somehow have worse health than the people of other countries.

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Health Care Financing Reform: (62) The Stupak Amendment

November 8, 2009

     This posting contains a description of the Stupak Amendment restricting the use of federal funds to pay for abortions and links to articles and sites discussing the amendment.

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Health Care Financing Reform: (61) The House of Representatives Passes H.R. 3962

November 8, 2009

     My wife and I stayed up late last night (OK, I stayed up late – she does not consider 11:30 p.m. to be late) to watch the House of Representatives adopt H.R. 3962, The Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009.  Here is my bottom line on the bill.

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Health Care Financing Reform: (60) Tort Reform under the House Democratic and Republican Bills

November 6, 2009

     This posting compares the tort reform provisions of the Democratic and Republican health care bills which are pending in the House of Representatives.

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Health Care Financing Reform: (59) AMA Support for House Democratic Bill – For Now

November 6, 2009

     In the comments to Posting Number 55 of this series Quidpro and Dan S. debate what the effect of health care financing reform legislation will be on physicians and the willingness of persons to enter or stay in the medical profession.  We will learn more over the weekend as doctors debate whether to ratify AMA [...]

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Health Care Financing Reform: (58) Rep. Ellsworth's Abortion Amendment

November 6, 2009

     One of the most divisive questions in health care financing reform involves funding for abortions.  Pro-life House Democrats have threatened to vote against the House Democratic bill, H.R. 3962, unless it is amended to ensure that federal funds are not spent on abortions.   A member of this group, Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-IN), has proposed an [...]

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Health Care Financing Reform: (57) The House Republican Bill

November 5, 2009

     The Republican Party in the House of Representatives has offered an alternative to the Democratic health care financing reform bill.  This posting contains links to the bill and to CBO scoring of it, and a very preliminary analysis of the bill.

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