Monthly Archives: January 2010

Expanding on a December White House Council of Economic Advisers Report, David Cutler and Neeraj Sood conducted a study on the number of jobs that will be created in specific industries as a result of health reform. The Harvard-USC team found that up to 400,000 jobs will be created per… more

Congress continues to reconcile differences between the House and Senate bills this week, and it seems as if they are definitely making progress towards a compromise. Yesterday President Obama indicated his preference for the high-end insurance tax as opposed to the high income tax in order to raise revenue for… more

I have written in the past on the importance of Health Information Technology (HIT) expansion, and I recently ran across several promising developments in this sphere. More important is the process of Health Information Exchange (HIE), where data can be obtained, transferred, and ultimately used to direct everything from health… more

Today, the House Tri-Committee released an important overview of the key priorities to be reconciled between the House and Senate bills. Be sure to check out some of the interesting revenue streams at the bottom of the document to answer the “How are we going to pay for it?” question.… more

As we usher in the new year, it now seems certain that Congress will bypass a traditional Conference Committee and utilize ‘ping pong’ in order to merge the House and Senate health reform bills. This decision became clear after Senate Republicans vowed to fight the bill every inch of the… more