Pulling it Together: 19.7
Several years ago Joanne Silberner from NPR offered some advice I liked. Joanne said that the secret to effective communication was to "have a killer anecdote and a killer number." Here is a killer number: 19.7.
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Pulling It Together: Jobs, A Reason to Fast Track Coverage
PerspectiveThe two big topics in Washington right now are the economy and health care. I've written before about how the two are linked, and in particular about how among the everyday economic problems people are having, paying for health care is a big one.
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Pulling it Together: What Will Health Reform Do For Me?
PerspectiveThere is one poll number that may be more important to watch than any other if we have a big debate about health reform: The percentage of Americans who think that they or their families would be better off if the president and the Congress enacted major health reform legislation.
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Pulling it Together from Drew Altman: Multiple Agendas for Controlling Health Care Costs
PerspectiveIn what would be a domestic policy trifecta, we may be headed for interconnected big debates about economic recovery, entitlement programs and health reform. A core issue in the entitlement and health reform debates is the problem of rising health care costs.
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Pulling It Together: The “R” Word Is Back
PerspectiveLonger ago than I care to admit, I got my start in health policy at M.I.T. when I wrote a book about health care regulation.
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Pulling It Together: Keeping the Health Reform Coalition Together
PerspectiveWe could be headed for a new schism in the debate about health reform.
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Pulling It Together: What Do We Want Health Insurance To Be?
PerspectiveTrends in the health insurance marketplace show substantial growth in high deductible health plans, especially among smaller firms, where 35% of workers are now covered by plans with a deductible of $1,000 or more. That's according to our recently released employer health benefits survey, which we have been conducting now for ten years.
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Pulling It Together: A Recovery Raises Expectations Too
PerspectiveNew Orleans is a city still struggling with the aftermath of Katrina and the levee breaks. The people of New Orleans feel that the nation and the federal government have largely forgotten them.
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Pulling It Together: Moving Away From Employer Based Coverage: Don’t Forget Public Opinion
PerspectiveOne of the underlying big issues in the unfolding health reform debate is whether most Americans should continue to get insurance through work where they get it today, or purchase it themselves in the individual private health insurance marketplace.
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Pulling It Together: Perspectives on State Health Reform
PerspectiveThis Pulling It Together column is the fourth in my new series. All four so far have dealt with different dimensions of health reform. This time I write about one of my favorite topics, the states.