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COSTS: The Price of Pessimism -- What the CMS Actuaries Missed
Last week, Medicare's chief actuary (formally known as the Office of the Actuary, or OACT) released an analysis of the financial impact of the health reform legislation recently approved by the House...
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HEALTH REFORM: Highlights from the Senate Bill
The latest version of Senate health care legislation (pdf available here) crafted by Majority Leader Harry Reid is making its rounds. There is a lot to review, but an initial read shows the bill is...
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COST: The Price is Right for Health Reform
After weeks of anticipation and speculation, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has unveiled the legislation that will bring health reform to the Senate floor in the coming weeks.While waiting for the...
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COVERAGE: Evaluating the Public Plan, Man
Slate's Timothy Noah provides a thoughtful overview of the intellectual origins and political evolution of the public option's place in health reform.It's a complicated case, the public option. Lotta...
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WORLDVIEW: Assume There's Morality
Not many health writers -- not many writers of any ilk, for that matter -- can match T.R. Reid's ability to bring a light, witty touch to really serious topics. Like health policy around the globe.Tom...
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QUALITY: Dying Well Beats Dying Badly. And Expensively
As we've written a lot on end of life care, we notice when others do the same. NPR's Joseph Shapiro this week reported on La Crosse, WI where 96 percent of the adults who die have an advanced...
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HEALTH REFORM: The Cost of Doing Nothing... Part 984,039,825
As we have discussed several times, doing nothing is simply not an option. We need to reform our health care system -- not despite our economic crisis, but because of the significant impact health care...
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HEALTH REFORM: Dialysis Done Right
Medicare hasn't put the finishing touches on its new dialysis reimbursement policy quite yet (you have until December 16 to get your comments in) -- but has decided to invest in educating the public on...
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HEALTH REFORM: Polls Holding Steady Into Thanksgiving Break
The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll is in, and the health care reform approval numbers are holding pretty steady. Slightly more people than last month, 54 percent, believe the country will be better...
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HEALTH REFORM: Four Goals for "Dysfunctional, Disorganized and Wasteful" System
Dr. Jack Wennberg, the father of the Dartmouth Atlas, and Shannon Brownlee, the author of Overtreated and a New America colleague, recently posted on the Health Affairs blog, recapping four major...
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