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• What were your thoughts, feelings, worries when the Senate passed the health reform bill?

  
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  What were your thoughts, feelings, worries this morning when the Senate passed the health reform bill? This is the question I asked on Facebook this morning and there were so many thoughtful and interesting responses that I just had to share them here. Please add yours too! Jack Cluth I was thinking ...
  3 days ago

• How Will the Senate Bill Impact the Insurance Companies and Their Customers?

  
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  How will the Senate bill impact health insurance companies and their customers?Even better, how will it impact a not-for-profit health plan--one with a reputation for being a "good guy" that continually wins the countrys top awards for member services and with historic profits of less than 1% of premium? And, one that ...
  4 days ago

• The Senate Bill--Wall Street Likes It and the House Will Have To

  
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  In morning trading HMO stocks are once again hitting 52-week highs with each of the major publicly traded plans up 3% to 6% from their Friday gains.Hospitals and pharmaceutical companies are also doing pretty well.Liberals have been talking all weekend long about having to make the Senate bill better—and more like ...
  6 days ago

• Oh, Ease Up on Joe Already

  
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  The Democratic rhetoric coming from Capitol Hill today beating on Joe Lieberman is, in the least, disingenuous.The public option has not been tenable for months. It was not just Lieberman that has been against it in all forms--robust Medicare-like or the neutered variety in the House and Senate bills.All of the ...
  1 week ago

• The Medicare Buy-In Is Dead--The Liberals Are Now the Swing Votes in Health Care

  
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  The Medicare buy-in idea is dead. After Democratic Congressman Weiners candid comment, “Never mind the camel’s nose, we’ve got his head and neck in the tent," no senator from the likes of Arkansas or Indiana is going to vote for this.Add to that yesterdays critical Washington Post editorial and the sharp ...
  2 weeks ago

• Selling Insurance Across State Lines--Now the Dems Are Pushing the Idea--Why It Wont Work

  
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  A favorite Republican health care soundbite calls for making the health insurance system more efficient by letting health plans sell across state lines.Now Democrats are jumping on that idea. The latest public option idea would have the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) contract with national not-for-profit health ...
  2 weeks ago

• Liberal Demands Over Giving Up the Public Option Threaten Health Care Deals

  
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  I actually feel for Harry Reid this morning.He was on his way. He had mastered an incredibly fine balance in his health care bill.No it wasn’t real health care reform and it wasn’t going to bend any curves but the Dems long ago gave up on that looking for one big political “W” instead.The liberals were finally ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Latest Version of the Public Option—The Democrats Could Have Saved Us Lot of Time If This is What They Call a “Public Option”

  
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  The details are still fuzzy but the word is that senators are working toward a compromise over the controversial public option that would create something that:Would be run by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which already runs the Federal Employee Health Benefits Plan (FEHBP).Would take bids from existing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Good For Orszag--Budget Director Discusses Cost Containment in Dem Bills

  
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  I was encouraged by remarks White House Budget chief Peter Orszag made in Washington yesterday.There has been substantial debate in recent days about whether the pending House and Senate bills have the kind of robust cost containment we need to really "bend" any health care cost "curves."Readers of this blog know of ...
  3 weeks ago

• There Are Four Health Insurance Renewal Cycles and Two Elections Between Now and 2014—Could be Sort of Like a “Death By a Thousand Cuts” for the Dems

  
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  The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a report today saying that if the Reid bill becomes law the price of non group policies would be about 10 percent to 13 percent higher in 2016 than it would be under current law. The CBO projects that small group and large group premiums would be about the same in 2016 as ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Senate Democratic Health Care Bill is a “Milestone” on the Road to Cost Containment—If It Is Its a Pretty Small One

  
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  The Obama administration is reportedly pleased with a recent Ron Brownstein article in the Atlantic.In it Brownstein praises the Reid Senate health care bill for the steps it takes toward containing costs. He quotes MIT economist Jonathan Gruber who says, “My summary is its really hard to figure out how to bend the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Dont Rationalize Busting the Budget--Start Over

  
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  I detect a growing rationalization among supporters of the Democratic health care bills: The recent flare-up over when a woman should have a mammogram proves we are nowhere near ready to pass a health care reform bill that will actually control costs. So, why bother?You would be hard pressed to find any health policy ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Democratic Health Care Effort--A Political "Charge of the Light Brigade?"

  
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  The latest polls are an unmitigated disaster for Democrats even as theyre on a fast track to get their health care legislation passed.This from Rasmussen this morning:“Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support ...
  4 weeks ago

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