Amy Menefee's Blog (11)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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