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- June 29, 2011
- Check Out KHN’s New Blog, Capsules!
- KHN has launched a new blog to complement our coverage of health care policy and politics.
In addition to incorporating a revived Blog Watch, Capsules features staff-written news and observations, outside voices and commentary and other timely and interactive features.
Check out the latest from Capsules here.
- August 27, 2010
- Health Care And The Midterm Elections
- PLEASE NOTE: Blog Watch is on hiatus. Until it returns, check out our news feed and our columns. Contact us with any questions or comments.
Bloggers are zeroing in on health care politics as races around the nation ramp up for midterm elections this fall. Candidates and politicians alike feature prominently this week.
CJR’s Trudy Lieberman visits Missouri to check [...]
- August 20, 2010
- Debating A Democratic Strategy Shift
- An article describing Democrats’ “retreat” from the new health law attracted attention from health policy bloggers. Politico’s Ben Smith reported that Democratic supporters of the health legislation are moving away from arguments that it will reduce health costs and the deficit. A conference call on Thursday featured a power point presentation from the Herndon Alliance, a [...]
- August 17, 2010
- Eyeing Insurers’ Expenses
- Bloggers examine one of the key issues at the meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners–the question of what expenses insurers will be able to count as medical care, which is important because the new health law sets requirements for such spending. Others discuss repealing the health overhaul and what the FDA’s consideration of [...]
- August 11, 2010
- Is The State Aid Package Too Little Or Too Much?
- Bloggers react to Tuesday’s vote in the House of Representatives to provide additional funding to states, including extra Medicaid dollars. Republican leaders decried the bill because of its cost. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called lawmakers back from their usual August recess to vote on the bill, which President Barack Obama quickly signed.
Time’s Kate Pickert notes [...]
- August 9, 2010
- Debating The New Medicare Trustee Report
- Bloggers are still buzzing about last week’s report on the future of Medicare, which found that the new health overhaul law would extend the life of the trust fund by 12 years, to 2029.
Wonk Room’s Igor Volsky explains, “A new Medicare Trustees report finds that the Independent Payment Advisory Board [IPAB], the payment reform demonstration [...]
- August 5, 2010
- Bloggers Debate Successful Missouri Ballot Measure That Rejects Individual Mandate
- Bloggers try to parse the result of a Missouri ballot initiative that state voters overwhelmingly approved Tuesday. The initiative, which challenges the federal health overhaul’s individual insurance mandate, was the first of its kind to go up for a vote in the states, and more are expected this fall.
Time’s Kate Pickert notes, “The measure, which says Missouri residents can’t be [...]
- August 3, 2010
- Ruling In Va. Health Lawsuit Renews Blogger Interest In Case
- A federal judge’s ruling on Tuesday that Virginia’s lawsuit against the new health overhaul law may proceed sparked commentary from several health care bloggers.
NPR’s Julie Rovner writes: “Justice Department lawyers probably smelled trouble when they read Hudson’s first sentence, which called Virginia’s case ‘a narrowly-tailored facial challenged to the constitutionality’ of the health law.”
Ashby Jones [...]
- July 30, 2010
- Happy Birthday, Medicare
- Today is the 45th anniversary of the Medicare program, and several bloggers take note and even find a new video featuring an American icon. Other commentators review the implementation and design of the high-risk pool program created by the health law.
Don Berwick, the new Medicare and Medicaid administrator, compares the enactment of Medicare with the efforts this [...]
- July 22, 2010
- Massachusetts Health Reform: Success Or Failure?
- A wonky debate took hold of health policy bloggers this week as they reexamined the health reform law in Massachusetts, which shares many features with the new national health overhaul law. Commentators considered new data from the state and what it might signify for the national law.
Cato’s Michael Cannon notes several disagreements with economist Jonathan Gruber’s letter-to-the-editor [...]
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