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The Health Reform Battle: From Procedure to Policy
posted by Frank Pasquale
Many bloggers have highlighted bits and pieces of the legislation just passed by the House of Representatives. But how do we best understand the bill as a whole? The Obama Administration recently recruited Edward Tufte to visualize the ARRA (which, amazingly enough, many Americans think went entirely to Wall Street). Some savvy media outlets have already explained health reform in accessible formats.
Farhana Hossain at the NYT summarizes the language of the Senate Bill, and how it will change in the coming week(s) if Senate Democrats follow through on their promises and pass the House’s Reconciliation Bill. For example, in the Senate Bill:
Within six months, insurers would be prohibited from denying coverage to children based on pre-existing medical conditions, from placing lifetime dollar limits on coverage and from rescinding coverage when a person becomes sick or disabled. The ban on exclusion based on pre-existing conditions would be extended to every one when the exchanges are operational in 2014.
But the reconciliation bill “would extend the ban on lifetime limits and rescission of coverage to all existing health plans within six months.” Mike Madden of Salon also does a good job summarizing “Ten Things You Need to Know About the Health Care Bill.” For example, “children would be allowed to stay on their parents’ insurance until they turn 26.”
I’m sure there are many more great resources out there; I’m happy to host them in the comments. I don’t want to clutter a post on simple guides to the health care bill with too many leads. But for now, let me just congratulate two of the top journalists of the health care debate, Timothy Noah of Slate, and Ezra Klein of the Washington Post, for their tireless attention to the real policy issues. And congratulations to Timothy S. Jost, one of the law professors who has most exhaustively described (and frequently defended) the bill just passed by Congress. I’ll be teaching his article “Health Care Reform Requires Law Reform” in my Health Care Finance & Regulation class tomorrow.
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March 21, 2010 at 8:47 pm
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An inequality forecast for 2010. (fp)
February 10, 2010 at 9:35 pm
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Understanding this year’s Wall Street bonuses. (fp)
February 10, 2010 at 7:49 pm
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Whatever happened to Henry Simons? (fp)
February 8, 2010 at 9:29 pm
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The scarlet ankle bracelet. (fp)
February 7, 2010 at 7:29 pm
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Every good article should have one idea. (fp)
February 7, 2010 at 7:15 pm
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Family values in market turnover culture. (fp)
February 5, 2010 at 9:32 pm
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Banks really create value: probably $58 billion in overdraft fees & credit card penalties in 2009. (fp)
February 5, 2010 at 6:55 pm
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A Citizens United dream: Exxon could have deployed 10% of its 2008 profits to outspend every presidential and senatorial candidate that year. (fp)
February 4, 2010 at 8:24 pm
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Eternal Earth-Bound Pets promises to adopt your pet if you are raptured. (fp)
February 4, 2010 at 8:20 pm
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Habermas doesn’t tweet, but does interview well. (fp)
February 4, 2010 at 8:17 pm
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Bair on the Big Picture
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As the Dollars & Sense blog notes, Sheila Bair’s testimony before the FCIC was insightful. My favorite lines:
[The financial] crisis represents the culmination of a decades-long process by which our national policies have distorted economic activity away from savings and toward consumption, away from investment in our industrial base and public infrastructure and toward housing, away from the real sectors of our economy and toward the financial sector. . . .Corporate sector practices [have] had the effect of distorting decision-making away from long-term profitability and stability and toward short-term gains with insufficient regard for risk.
Even if GDP goes up, the problems she cites will haunt our economy for years to come. Stopping what Robert Kuttner has termed the “squandering of America” will require more than financial sector reform. But it’s a good place to start.
January 23, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Posted in: Economic Analysis of Law, Uncategorized
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Cohan asks FCIC: Did Goldman push “the ISDA to change its contractual approach to . . . collateral calls?” (fp)
January 23, 2010 at 9:43 pm
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Thank you, Paul Volcker. (fp)
January 23, 2010 at 9:02 pm
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Paul Campos on Citizens United. (fp)
January 23, 2010 at 8:33 pm
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A past failure in health care reform. (fp)
January 23, 2010 at 8:32 pm
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Tax Justice Network publishes the New Haven Declaration. (fp)
January 17, 2010 at 7:21 pm
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Bill Moyers’ coverage and links on finance. (fp)
January 16, 2010 at 5:41 pm
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Adventures of the finance lobby. (fp)
January 16, 2010 at 5:39 pm
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A “Content Loss Ratio” for Cable Companies?
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I’ve been following the debate over ala carte cable TV pricing, and the recent Fox/Time Warner showdown has put it back in the news. Brian Stelter’s NYT article on the topic reveals some interesting revenue figures in the cable industry:
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January 4, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Posted in: Consumer Protection Law, Culture, Cyberlaw, Economic Analysis of Law, Law and Inequality, Media Law, Technology
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