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Chris Fleming
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On The Health Care Blog, Brian Klepper presents some of the best in recent health policy blogging in the first Health Wonk Review of the year. Brian provides readers with a collection of interesting observations on health reform, including Alain Enthoven’s recent response to Atul Gawande on the Health Affairs Blog.
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Claudia Schur
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Marc Berk
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Back in October, as health care financing options were being hotly debated and proposals changing on an almost daily basis, one of us noticed an editorial on health care reform in West Virginia’s Martinsburg Journal. We were struck by the extent of opposition to financing the reform package through a tax on high earners. West... Read the rest of this entry »
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Chris Fleming
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Amid one of the worst economic recessions in recent history, U.S. health spending grew 4.4 percent in 2008, its slowest rate in nearly 50 years. However, overall health spending, which reached $2.3 trillion in 2008 — $7,681 per person — still increased faster than the overall economy, federal analysts reported yesterday in the January issue... Read the rest of this entry »
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Chris Fleming
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Congress is now debating whether to include in health reform a new program to help people pay for long-term care services and supports. At this propitious time, leading experts explore critical policy issues related to long-term care in a series of articles in the January 2010 edition of Health Affairs. (As of this issue, Health... Read the rest of this entry »
