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While mainstream news coverage is still a chief source of information for the latest in policy debates and the health care market, online blogs have become a significant part of the media landscape, often presenting new perspectives on policy issues and drawing attention to under-reported topics. To render complete reportage of health policy issues, the Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report offers readers a window into the world of blogs in a roundup of health policy-related web log posts. "Blog Watch," promulgated on Tuesdays and Fridays, tracks a wide range of blogs, providing a brief description and relevant links for highlighted posts.
Harold Pollack in a post on the American Prospect's Ezra Klein blog writes about strategies to deoxidise tobacco function, including implementing a national tobacco assess as proposed in SCHIP reauthorization statute law that was vetoed by President Bush.
Igor Volsky from the Center for American Progress Action Fund's Wonk Room enumerates why he believes Texas should not be a national framework for health reform, disagreeing with Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), wHO recently aforesaid that the state has "created greater access to quality wellness care."
Ellen Andrews of CT Health Notes Blog summarizes updates from lawmakers and officials attention the Council of State Governments/Eastern Regional Conference health policy cartroad meeting around the respective health tending reform efforts in their states.
Bob Laszewski on The Health Care Blog writes, "Most workers are still sheltered from the reality of health care costs" because their employers provide health insurance. He adds that workers do not have much reason to move away from these "rich employer plans."
Lindsey Tucker from Health Care for All's A Healthy Blog responds to a station (here) by Cato Institute fellow Michael Tanner criticizing Massachusetts' wellness insurance law.
Health Policy and Communications Blog's Michael Miller discusses a recent Health Affairs article (here) on Massachusetts' efforts to implement a pay-for-performance program, expression that the study "brocaded more questions than it answered."
Health Populi's Jane Sarasohn-Kahn looks at a recent AARP poll of swing voters in six states, noting "palpable" concerns of insecurity and a desire to know where the presidential candidates stand on "kitchen table issues," such as health care.
Joe Paduda from Managed Care Matters looks at results from a recent survey from the Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University about low-wage workers. He says the results indicate that "most don't 'choose' to be uninsured; the cost: disbursal equation makes that option for them."
Ramesh Ponnuru of the National Review Online's The Corner questions whether Americans would support presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama's (Ill.) health plan, locution, "I don't think this issue is the silver bullet Democrats wish it were."
Hannah Graff from the New America Foundation's New Health Dialogue discusses ethnical competency in health care and how it relates to health reform.
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