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The Patient Centered Medical Home

THE MEDICAL HOME- a perspective I remember growing up in a small community in Ohio and feeling comforted by the fact that my mom was always home to greet me after school or to pick me up to take me to my special activity. Dad was consistently home for dinner. Life was routine. I felt secure and comfortable. That’s probably what most of us feel when we think of home: a place where we are comforted, where there is some sort of stability. That place where we can close our eyes and kn… Continue

Added by Marcy Zwelling on April 7, 2009 at 5:38pm — No Comments

re: Alpha Sims spam

Hi members -- I have taken action to ban "Alpha Sims" from this group. Please just delete any posts she might have left on your pages. Thanks! Amy Continue

Added by Amy Menefee on March 31, 2009 at 2:26pm — 1 Comment

Do No Harm Petition!

Please visit www.DoNoHarmPetition.org and sign our petition asking Congress to "First, Do No Harm" to our health sector! Continue

Added by Amy Menefee on March 31, 2009 at 2:21pm — No Comments

Ordinary health care for ordinary people

Published in the Long Beach Press Telegram... February 13, 2009 I'm sorry for Tom Daschle. After lobbying the entire country, giving speeches to the tune of more than $5 million over several years and writing a book, Mr. Daschle, his Senate partners and the president thought that he would be "the person" to redirect the delivery of American health care. But President Obama reconsidered his nomination when it was clear that Mr. Daschle had stepped outside the "ordinarily acceptable" and the form… Continue

Added by Marcy Zwelling on February 17, 2009 at 1:02am — No Comments

Keeping the Climate for Health Innovation

Has anything decent happened in health care in the past 8 years? In fact, yes! Grace-Marie Turner's new paper, "The Value of Innovation in Health Care," highlights consumer-friendly developments from HSAs to experiments in the delivery of care. You might be surprised to learn what some U.S. employers are doing to get their workers covered. Check it out for some key things we'll want to pr… Continue

Added by Amy Menefee on January 13, 2009 at 11:03am — No Comments

My letter to Santa

Dear Santa: This is truly a monumental moment for me. Being Jewish, I have never had the urge to write to you, but in the spirit of "change" and crossing over, I had this overwhelming need for audacious hope and a prayer. My list is short. I am only asking for reason and sensibility to come to our nation and our leaders. And, if you'll throw in ethical behavior and a sense of morality, I'll leave extra milk and cookies. You see, even as a graduate of Wellesley in Economics, I can't grasp the… Continue

Added by Marcy Zwelling on January 2, 2009 at 3:25pm — No Comments

Galen Institute's Open Letter to Obama & Daschle

Hi friends -- we at the Galen Institute wrote an open letter to Obama and Daschle per their request for input on health reform. You can read it here and leave your comments. We submitted this to Change.gov and will be talking in the days to come about our concerns and suggestions. Continue

Added by Amy Menefee on January 2, 2009 at 3:08pm — No Comments

Survey for Health Care Oriented Bloggers or Twitter Users: Please Participate!

If you are a blogger or microblogger focused on health care, I would really appreciate it if you'd participate in this very short survey focused around the Tom Daschle nomination as the Secretary of Health and Human Services and appointment as head of the White House Office of Health Reform. It's less than 8 questions and should take you a total of 6 minutes. The survey can be accessed here and you will remain completely anonymous:… Continue

Added by Elizabeth A. Terrell on December 16, 2008 at 9:35pm — No Comments

AmSpec: Daschle and the Health Care Fight

"Daschle and the Health Care Fight" By Philip Klein on 12.11.08 @ 12:20PM Barack Obama has now made official the appointment of Tom Daschle to Secretary of Health and Human Services. I'll have a lot more on this (including some more from Tom Daschle's book on health care, which I just finished) but just a few quick things to emphasize. For more: http://spectator.org/blog/2008/12/11/daschle-and-the-health-care-fi Continue

Added by Elizabeth A. Terrell on December 11, 2008 at 4:58pm — No Comments

Good Piece by Paul Hsieh in the Colorado Springs Gazette

http://www.gazette.com/opinion/health_43988___article.html/care_universal.html Asking for trouble in health care Comments 0 | Recommend 4 November 24, 2008 - 5:38 PM PAUL HSIEH, M.D., GUEST COLUMNIST In the 1990s, politicians wanted to make home ownership as universal as possible. They used laws such as the Community Reinvestment Act to force banks to make unsustainable loans to millions of people. The… Continue

Added by Elizabeth A. Terrell on December 5, 2008 at 9:19am — No Comments

Change.gov begins discussion on health care. Let's keep the free market conversation active there.

"We want to hear your voice. Use the discussion tool below to let us know what you liked about the health care discussion, and suggest ways to keep the conversation going in the future." Let's inject some free market principles into this friendly discussion. I'd hate to see Daschle have the last word. http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/join_the_discussion_daschles_healthcare_response/ Use Ning as a… Continue

Added by Elizabeth A. Terrell on December 3, 2008 at 4:41pm — No Comments

The LA Times Didn't Ask Us

Did you see the LA Times article Dec. 1 saying the "consensus"is already in the universal care camp? Continue

Added by Amy Menefee on December 2, 2008 at 4:40pm — 1 Comment

Insight on Daschle's Plans and Views

Happy Thanksgiving! Tony Blankley offers some tasty morsels from Tom Daschle's book, "Critical: What We Can Do about the Health-Care Crisis." Highlights of the soon-to-be HHS Secretary's vision of the Federal Reserve-style health care board: On Page 179, he writes, "The Federal Health Board wouldn't be a regulatory agency, but its recommendations would have t… Continue

Added by Amy Menefee on November 26, 2008 at 10:31am — No Comments

Op/Ed: Most Americans want freedom to make health care decisions by Devon Herrick

Please link to this story on your organization's site and/or blog: http://www.modbee.com/opinion/national/story/509371.html Most Americans want freedom to make health care decisions By Devon Herrick last updated: November 23, 2008 02:34:48 AM DALLAS -- As a new Congress begins to look at health-care insurance options, some of the members are discussing proposals for a single-payer, universal health-care plan. That'… Continue

Added by Elizabeth A. Terrell on November 24, 2008 at 5:09pm — No Comments

Perspectives on Fixing the Health Insurance Market

Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute is one of many experts blogging at the National Journal Health Care Experts Blog. Their latest topic is "Fixing the Insurance Market: Solutions for a Serious Problem." Other recent discussions have involved the Baucus plan and Obama's health care team. Check out this space, where health care folks from the left and right are weighing in. Grace-Marie's proposal for "fixing" the insurance market is ava… Continue

Added by Amy Menefee on November 18, 2008 at 4:54pm — No Comments

Union Plans Record-Breaking Spending to Push Universal Health Care

Here's my latest Galen post about the Politico article I mentioned yesterday at the Heartland Institute's health care event. Coalitions ramping up TV ads, boots on the ground to make universal coverage a reality. Continue

Added by Amy Menefee on November 13, 2008 at 4:31pm — No Comments

Health Care Seen As Opportunity to 'Undermine Conservative Worldview'

Just posted on the Galen site -- a roundup of health care news and buzz from the Week of Change. Continue

Added by Amy Menefee on November 7, 2008 at 6:37pm — No Comments

Sebelius and Daschle being considered for Health Secy. under Obama

From Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=amXJ8qxDon98&refer=us Continue

Added by Amy Menefee on November 5, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Welcome to the Health Policy Action Center! Invite friends!

Hello all! I'm the communications director for the Galen Institute, www.galen.org, a non-profit working to advance the health care debate. Our approach is free-market economics, which means we want consumers to have control over their health care decisions. As we prepare for President-elect Barack Obama's administration, this is an important time for us to come together on our priorities and our message. This online community is a place where we can share our research and ideas, plan events, as… Continue

Added by Amy Menefee on November 5, 2008 at 2:49pm — No Comments

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