Health policy news isn't exactly beach reading, so we've decided to offer a series of short items just to keep you current… Not Too NICE: Our colleague Philip Stevens of the International Policy Network in London alerted us to an article in this morning's Times that offers fair warning to those who want to create a new government body to determine the effectiveness and … [Read more...] about Summer Shorts
Archives for August 2008
Slowly, Slowly
The Senate Finance Committee got to the heart of the issue during a hearing yesterday on "Health Benefits in the Tax Code: The Right Incentives." Three prominent economists were in solidarity in targeting the tax treatment of health insurance as key to health reform. The value of the subsidy for job-based health insurance was a whopping $245 billion in 2007, according to Eward Kleinbard, … [Read more...] about Slowly, Slowly