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BOSTON (Reuters) – Republicans in Congress may not be able to unravel healthcare reform over the next two years, as their leaders have promised, but they can make strategic cuts for now before using the issue as a powerful wedge in the 2012 presidential campaign.
At a panel discussion on Friday at the Harvard School of Public Health, arranged in collaboration with Reuters, health policy experts said the Obama administration's 2010 healthcare law could be nearly unrecognizable within a year.
"We will have seen the leading edge of dismantling this bill through the discretionary spending process," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former advisor to Republican John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign.
"It will slow down the implementation and put it on a timetable to be solved in the 2012 elections," said Holtz-Eakin, now president of the policy institute American Action Forum
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my vision for the future of health care. Briefly, it's a patient-centered, consumer-driven, provider-friendly health care system fueled by information, choice and control. It's patient-centered. That means the patient -- not the provider, not the drug company, not the insurer, and not the government -- is at the heart of American health care.
Growing up, when my dad was a family physician in Nashville, I would ride along with him to make house calls. It was so clear to me: Always, it was about the patient.
It wasn't about what the insurance companies would cover, or guarding against lawsuits.
It was about restoring the patient to health.
But we've lost that focus in recent decades, and it's time to restore it.
Second, it's consumer-driven. That means it's market-based. Right now, instead of letting people hire their own physicians and pay them, we have a system in which no one pays his or her own medical bills. Rather, there's a third-party payment system.
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The latest trend in health care? Patients are managing their own care. New technologies make it possible. Legislative changes facilitate it. And financial pressures all but require it
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The life sciences field is advancing and changing in nearly every dimension, both content-wise and structurally. Volumes of new content are coming forth in the form of key research findings, affordable new technologies and simultaneous holistic and reductionist expansions via systems biology approaches and new sub-field branching. Structurally, life sciences are changing in three important ways: the concept of life sciences, how science in general is conducted and the models by which health and health care are understood and realized.
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yay uk!
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According to TPM, California state Sen. Jenny Oropeza (D) won re-election with 59% of the vote, despite having died two weeks ago from complications of cancer