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While mainstream news coverage is still a primary generator of information for the latest in policy debates and the health care marketplace, on-line blogs birth become a significant portion of the media landscape, often presenting new perspectives on policy issues and drawing tending to under-reported topics. To provide complete coverage of health insurance issues, the Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report offers readers a window into the world of blogs in a roundup of health policy-related blog posts. "Blog Watch," published on Tuesdays and Fridays, tracks a wide range of blogs, providing a brief description and relevant golf links for highlighted posts.
The American Prospect's Ezra Klein discusses U.S. government health outlay, saying that "we've managed to unload an unbelievable amount of spending onto government only done so in a way that ensures the government can't use its size or regulatory power to cut spending development or bring out a realizable, moral health system."
Michael Cannon from Cato@Liberty argues that the uninsured are not "free riders" in role because "it's not at all clear that when people don't buy health insurance, they are noble costs on the rest of us."
Igor Volsky from the Center for American Progress Action Fund's Wonk Room Blog says that presumptive Republican presidential campaigner Sen. John McCain's (Ariz.) health design "would remove the employer's incentive to provide coverage and could potentially ravel out the current system." Volsky disagrees with Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain's boss domestic insurance policy adviser, wHO on Thursday said that McCain's plan would "buttress ... the traditional source of health insurance, which is employers."
Gert Westert on the Health Affairs Blog provides an overview of the Dutch wellness system, which many birth suggested could be a model for the U.S.
The Health Care Blog's Matthew Holt writes about a presentation by Andrew Dillon, head of the United Kingdom's National Institute for Clinical Excellence, on methods the bureau uses to compare toll and clinical effectiveness. Holt also expresses skepticism that a standardised agency could "be established or even survive" in the U.S.
Lindsay Tucker from Health Care for All's A Healthy Blog writes that Massachusetts health reform "has been successful -- and continues to be," in response to a New York Times article about insurance coverage and chronic disease that quoted an adept saying, "the state experiments have all failed because of cost."
Bob Laszewski from Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review hosts the most recent edition of Health Wonk Review, a biweekly compendium of more than deuce dozen health policy, substructure, insurance, engineering and managed care bloggers. A different participant's blog hosts each issue.
Health Populi's Jane Sarasohn-Kahn responds to a new survey by the ERISA Industry Committee and the National Association of Manufacturers that finds only 30% of employers measure the results of their health programs. She writes that more data is required to make out which incentives work best for dissimilar wellness components.
Conn Carroll from the Heritage Foundation's The Foundry writes that "libertarians may have plenty of other yard to criticise McCain on, but on health care McCain is advocating a libertarian visual modality." Carroll disagrees with an article from Reason that says "neither party wants change in the flow system."
Insure Blog's Bob Vineyard discusses high deductibles and low yearbook limits in the Healthy Indiana Plan and asks, "[R]ather than creating a special plan just for the one hundred thirty,000 uninsured, why non use the tax money to subsidize the purchase of wellness insurance plans that already exist in the market place? Isn't that a better use of resources?"
Joe Paduda from Managed Care Matters disagrees with blogger Catron's (here) purpose of statistics from a recent Lancet study that finds the U.S. has the highest rates of survival for certain cancers.
Joanne Kenen from the Century Foundation's New Health Dialogue discusses Kentucky's efforts to reduce wellness costs by recruiting eligible state employees and retirees into disease management programs offered by the state's Employees Health Plan.
Jacob Goldstein of the Wall Street Journal's Health Blog discusses secrecy surrounding FDA's rejection of dose applications.
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