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COVERAGE: Myths About the Individual Mandate: Stifling Competition
Myth: An individual mandate will stifle market competition.Fact: An individual mandate, coupled with insurance market reforms and subsidies, would make markets work more effectively and efficiently. By...
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REFORM: If You Hold It, They Will Come
Forget about the Nationals' new stadium (you already had?), the hardest seat to get in town this summer has been at the Senate Finance hearings on health reform. We arrived 20 minutes early yesterday...
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HEALTH POLITICS: The Strange Bedfellows Make Themselves Heard
That strange bedfellow Divided We Fail coalition you've heard us talk about before about is putting its money where its mouth is in the name of health reform. The Business Roundtable, the National...
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HEALTH: Baucus Plan Highlights Importance Bipartisanship and Cost of Inaction
This post also appears on the National Journal's Health Care Experts Blog. where you can also see what other health policy analysts have to say. On Wednesday, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT)...
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COVERAGE: The Case for Comprehensive Insurance Market Reform is Overwhelming
This post also appears on the National Journal's Health Care Experts Blog. where you can also see what other health policy analysts have to say about insurance market reform.The point of insurance...
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HEALTH REFORM: Step Forward from Health Insurers
The health insurance industry, in what was widely seen as a step toward consensus on health reform, has said it would stop charging sick people higher rates as part of a comprehensive health reform...
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The White House has posted President Obama's letter to Senators Ted Kennedy and Max Baucus on health care reform. He reiterated his vision (and ours) that reform is an economic as well as a moral...
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HEALTH REFORM: Frist Backs Individual Mandate
Last time I ran into Bill Frist, he was sounding distinctly nonpartisan on a panel discussion about preventive care and social determinants of health. We then talked about comparative effectiveness...
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HEALTH REFORM: Building on Finance with Cents and Sensibility
Robert Greenstein over at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds plenty to like about the bill the Senate Finance committee has approved -- and much that still needs work. With his usual mix...
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HEALTH REFORM: Round Two of Reports
The latest study released by the insurance industry, while better than the one that came before it, is riddled with flaws. The recent report produced by Oliver Wyman (an management consulting firm with...
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