Health Beat by Maggie Mahar: 9-29-08

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Trouble viewing this mail? Read it online Sign up for TCF newsletter | About TCF | Contact Us | www.tcf.orgSeptember 29, 2008Highlights Obama vs. McCain: Their Health Care Plans; An Attempt at Nonpartisan Analysis-- Part 1 Getting More Value from Medicare An Update on Gardasil Latest PostingsObama vs. McCain: Their Health Care Plans; An Attempt at Nonpartisan Analysis-- Part 1Maggie Mahar | September 27, 2008Each presidential candidate offers a blueprint for health care reform. Neither can expect to see his plan enacted whole—legislators will leave their fingerprints all over any proposal. And, if truth be told, neither plan is perfect. Each proposal is blinkered in its own way; each ignores just how difficult true reform will be. I very much doubt that national health insurance will become a reality in the next year. Continue to blog here. Getting More Value from Medicare Maggie Mahar | September 29, 2008With Medicare’s financing unraveling, Medicare reform will need to be high on the next president’s agenda. In a new report from The Century Foundation, fellow and HealthBeat Blog editor Maggie Mahar (www.healthbeatblog.org) points out that past proposals for containing Medicare’s costs, such as putting a cap on physicians’ fees or requiring beneficiaries to pay more for their care, have not worked. Continue to blog here. An Update on GardasilMaggie Mahar | September 28, 2008Over at the Center for Media and Democracy’s PR Watch Judith Siers-Poisson writes:“With the start of the school year, debate has heated up again about Gardasil, Merck's vaccine against human papillomavirus. Since writing my series of four articles on The Politics and PR of Cervical Cancer last year, I have continued to track the developments. Continue to blog here. TCF Project SitesThe Social Security Network | Immigrationline.org | Homeland Security | Afghanistan Watch Health Policy Watch | Equality & Education | ReformElections.org The Century Foundation conducts public policy research and analyses of economic, social, and foreign policy issues, including inequality, retirement security, election reform, media studies, homeland security, and international affairs. The foundation produces books, reports, and other publications, convenes task forces, and working groups and operates eight informational Web sites. With offices in New York City and Washington, DC, The Century Foundation is nonprofit and nonpartisan and was founded in 1919 by Edward A. Filene.Headquarters: 41 East 70th St, New York, NY * 212.535.4441 * 212.535.7534 (fax) * infoDC Office: 1333 H Street, NW, 10th floor * Washington, DC 20005 * 202.387.0400 * 202.483.9430 (fax) info