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  • Pulling It Together: A Recovery Raises Expectations Too

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    New 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.

  • Pulling It Together: Perspectives on State Health Reform

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    This 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.

  • Pulling It Together: Health IN the Economy

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    I am writing this Pulling It Together column about this one chart and its potential interpretations and implications. Source: Key Findings: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 -- April 2008, Kaiser Family Foundation, April 2008.

  • Pulling It Together: Critical Path To Health Reform: Conclusion

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    Finally, it bears mentioning for organizations like Kaiser that do research and analysis and are committed to public education on complex health policy issues, that the kinds of activities that will be most useful will vary depending on what stage we are at on the "critical path.

  • Pulling It Together: Critical Path To Health Reform: Stage Three

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    If there is a debate in the new Congress in 2009 about comprehensive health reform legislation, a major question is: Will there be an appetite for a bipartisan, centrist deal? No matter who is in the White House or what the margins are in the Senate, it is very unlikely that the deep divisions about how…

  • Pulling It Together: Critical Path To Health Reform: Stage Two

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    Will the new president make health a top early priority and exercise real leadership on the issue? One of the big lessons of the health reform debate of the early nineties is that the Congress needs to be fully engaged in the process early on.

  • Pulling It Together: Critical Path To Health Reform

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    In this new section of our Web site, I pull together ideas and data from across the Foundation’s work to try to paint a bigger picture that hopefully helps to illuminate critical health policy issues. This is not a blog or a personal position statement.