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Time moves quickly inside the Beltway. It was just last week that Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, told a press briefing that Congressional leaders “will get to this a little later,” referencing the creation of any new government-run insurance program. Apparently “a little later” was yesterday when Senator Charles E. [...]
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For those of us who are trying to read the health reform tea leaves, things got a bit more interesting this week with signs of a rift in the Democratic Party over the “public plan.” First we had the chairmen of two Senate committees with jurisdiction over health care reform legislation (Baucus and Kennedy) say [...]
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Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House health reform office, is certainly getting her share of press today as healthcare writers try to unwind what she had to say during a forty minute discussion with reporters that was sponsored yesterday by the Kaiser Family Foundation. President Barack Obama’s top health care adviser said that work [...]
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This was the week when the gloves started to come off for those in Washington who are key players in the health care reform debate. Up until now, principals on both sides of the aisle had been talking about how a bi-partisan effort could produce reform that would lead to affordable, accessible, and quality health [...]
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During yesterday’s trip to Capitol Hill with ECFC, I had the chance to meet with staffers representing one Democratic and two Republican lawmakers. We also heard from Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief healthcare policy advisor, former CMS director, Tom Scully, and former Sen. Bob Dole, among others. They all agreed on one thing: the current healthcare [...]
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There was a lot of enegy in the room during this afternoon’s session of the 28th ECFC Annual Meeting in Tysons Corner, VA outside Washington DC. The conference has attracted employers, third party administrators, and others who are involved in providing or administering flexible benefits programs which include: flexible spending accounts, Section 125 plans, health [...]
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When it comes to achieving healthcare reform, President Obama has friends in all the right places, but the devil is still in the details. No, this is not the title of a new country song; it is the assessment of Benjamin Heineman, a business ethics expert and senior fellow at Harvard’s schools of law and [...]
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Now that the stimulus package has passed Congress and awaits the President’s signature, the debate has started in earnest about the how to address health care reform. I think most reasonable people agree that our current system falls short on three major tests: access, quality, and cost. Where reasonable people disagree is in how to [...]
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There is a lively discussion going on over at John Goodman’s Health Policy Blog (http://tinyurl.com/8hfhlz) about what to do about early retirees and their health care needs. John points out that there are about 78 million baby boomers, and that if the past is a guide to the future, more than 80% of them will [...]
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