On The Record (with daily recap)
CBO: Elmendorf testifies on economic growth & employment for 2012-13 before Senate Budget committee GAO: Medicaid: New Formula Would Provide Automatic , Targeted Assistance to States during Econ Downturns Kaiser: Super Committee ‘wish list’ from ~ 30 groups Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin travels to Pl
On The Record (with daily recap)
CDC: Winnable battles, Tobacco Use (many links) Bloomberg law: New & improved SCOTUS blog OMB: Ltr from Jacob Lew to Harry Reid on FEMA/continuing budget resolution AEI: The benefits and limitations of Income Tax reform CBO: Some context for thinking about deficit reduction, federal revenues House B
The IOM confirms that vaccines are safe
The IOM has released a report entitled, Adverse Effects of Vaccines: Evidence and Causality: The committee finds that evidence convincingly supports a causal relationship between some vaccines and some adverse events—such as MMR, varicella zoster, influenza, hepatitis B, meningococcal, and tetanus-c
I’m not the only one who thinks the doc fix ain’t deficit reducing material
仍然对我的断言，即修复SGR并不是真正减少赤字。 David Nanther, in a very amusing Politico piece on how the super committee might lower health care spending, agrees with me: OPTION: Fix the Medicare physician payment formula What it does: Rewrites the current Sustainable Growth Rate formula, which has an enormous […]The po
