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Finance Committee member assignments

Exclusive: Max Baucus's Health Care Team

by Ezra Klein
The American Prospect Blog
May 6, 2009

I mentioned yesterday that Chuck Schumer’s public plan compromise wasn’t a freelance effort: Max Baucus had deputized him to work through the options on the public plan. But he’s not the only Finance Committee member that received some homework from Baucus. In fact, Baucus has given every Democrat on the committee a different piece of health reform to focus in on.

This is the list:

Jay Rockefeller: Medicaid Expansion, Premium Subsidies, Quality Improvements

Kent Conrad: Comparative Effectiveness, Chronic Care Management

Jeff Bingaman: Pay-for-Performance, Bundled Payments, IHS

John Kerry: Health Information Technology, Exchange, Small Business Tax Credit

Blanche Lincoln: Small-Group Rating Reforms, Small Business Tax Credit

Ron Wyden: Tax Exclusion, Non-Group Rating Reform

Chuck Schumer: Public Plan

Debbie Stabenow: Employer Pay-or-Play, Medicare Buy-in, HIT

Maria Cantwell: Long-Term Care Reform, Workforce Issues

Bill Nelson: Graduate Medical Education, Medicare Part D

Bob Menendez: Disparities, Individual Requirement

Tom Carper: Fraud and Abuse, Prevention and Wellness, Transparency

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Comment:

By Don McCanne, MD

Sen. Max Baucus has set an agenda to send a comprehensive health care reform bill to President Obama within the next few months. The significance of the assignments given to each of the Democratic members of the Senate Finance Committee is that they provide considerable insight as to the policies that are likely to be included in the legislative package.

Many of these categories involve significant increases in costs, especially through additional and more complex administrative functions. Potential cost savings here are merely wishes not supported by any solid policy studies. The quest to slow the rate of health care cost increases has been one of the most important driving forces for reform, yet these measures will only add more to the cost burden.

Providing health care for everyone seems to be elusive, and these measures would hardly budge the numbers. Perhaps that is why they changed the goal of universal coverage to a goal of “aim for” universal coverage.

Much of the demand for reform stems from public dissatisfaction with the waste and abuses of the private insurance industry. In response, we were promised much greater regulatory oversight of the private insurers. But where is it? Is that what the “Exchange” is? If so, can you imagine John Kerry crafting legislation that would convert our private insurers into a system of social insurance? Do you think that his conservative approach based on a foundation of sloth might be the reason that he received this important assignment?

The senators have some busy work to do. It’s too bad that it’s not on health care reform.

Doctor jailed after health care protest

Leonardtown psychiatrist pushes Congress on single-payer coverage

By KAYLEIGH KULP
The Enterprise
Friday, May 8, 2009

Dr. Carol A. Paris spent Tuesday in jail — all in the name of health care reform.

“I interrupt this so-called public hearing to bring you the following unpaid, political announcement: Put single-payer on the table. My name is Dr. Carol Paris, and I approve this message,” Paris said as she was taken out of a congressional public hearing by police for disorderly conduct, as several other protesters with Paris who are part of Physicians for a National Health Program also shouted similar messages.

Paris said she did it because she is sick of seeing patients suffer. It was because she wanted to help them that she became a psychiatrist. But the Leonardtown resident’s remedies only work if people seek treatment, and too many people do not because they are uninsured and can’t afford it, Paris said.

So she’s doing her part to advocate for what she believes is the best solution — single-payer health care. She attended the Senate Finance Committee hearing on health care reform chaired by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Montana) to protest that no single-payer advocate was represented in the roundtable of 15.

Paris’ preferred single-payer health plan care — which she calls Improved Medicare for All — is a system that essentially eliminates multibillion-dollar private insurers in the marketplace. Everyone would get health insurance. It would be financed with money the federal government already contributes to health care through Medicare and other programs, with the help of a new, mandatory employee wage tax. All health care payments would be administered by the government (the single payer). Patients would choose who treated them.

President Barack Obama has promised to reform the health care system since his campaign began and finding the right solution has been a hot topic on Capitol Hill.

“We have tried to do this following the appropriate channels,” Paris said in an interview after the hearing. “We have written letters. We have visited congressional offices. We requested to be invited and we’ve been denied and so we felt that our only recourse was to create a disturbance.”

“We deeply, deeply respect the views of … all Americans … who feel deeply about health care reform, especially those who believe the single pay system,” Baucus said during the hearing. “For those of you in the audience who may be inclined to stand up out of order … I encourage you not to do so … we aren’t going to get the best result here” unless the discussion is orderly.

“I hear from [patients] every single day about their woes … who can’t afford their co-pays,” Paris said in an earlier interview. “It’s fragmented care and inadequate care when all I can do is prescribe medication when they need” a full medical regimen with help of other specialists. As a psychiatrist, she said, she treats patients whose financial stress is causing mental and physical problems.

Over the past eight years, Marylanders have seen their health insurance premiums increase by 64.1 percent while wages during that period only grew by 21.4 percent, according to a statement by Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md., 5th). Without reform, the health insurance premiums of Maryland families would increase from 4.7 percent of their income to 9.1 percent by 2016, Hoyer’s data shows.

The federal government estimates that more than 45 million Americans were uninsured in 2008. In Maryland the number of uninsured has grown to 769,007 — 13.8 percent of the state’s population, according to Hoyer’s statement. About $56 billion in uncompensated care for the uninsured is absorbed annually by the health system, driving up the cost of insurance for everyone, Hoyer said.

Reform to lower health care costs, improve delivery quality, increase coverage, and preserve choice of plan and doctors is a top priority for Congress and Obama, Hoyer said in the statement. More people losing jobs and businesses struggling with growing costs of employee coverage has increased demand for action.

“Reform, however, does not mean fixing the parts of health care that aren’t broken,” Hoyer said. “We need to build upon the current system of employer-sponsored care, with a system that provides patients their choice of insurance coverage and their choice of doctors. In other words, if you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.”

Paris, like many other members of her grassroots group, believes insurance companies make inflated profits at the expense of average Americans by unfair practices that limit access to care. Those include denying coverage to people who have pre-existing conditions, providing inadequate coverage, jacking up costs and paying doctors and hospitals low reimbursements that barely cover expenses.

On some weekdays and on weekends, Paris travels to meet with Capitol Hill lawmakers, trying to convince them that single-payer financing would actually lower medical costs because patients would regularly seek primary care and catch problems before they became catastrophic and expensive. People’s access to health care would be secure even if they lost their jobs. Small business could be relieved of the rapidly increasing health care coverage costs for employees. And doctors could focus more on helping people than on deciphering convoluted medical billing codes and fighting with insurance providers for fair payment, Paris said.

But some say there are better ways to fix those problems. “The concept of single-payer has been around for a long time,” said Jon S. Frank of Jon S. Frank & Associates, an employee benefits consulting firm in Prince Frederick. “I don’t really know how that would contain costs … Wouldn’t it just drive demand for services and if we drive demand for services, doesn’t it just exacerbate [the need] for services?”

Frank said health care reform must combine elements of personal responsibility and government subsidies for those who cannot afford care. “I can’t envision single-payer working. We have a lot of people covered by health insurance in this country. What would it be like to make the transition into some other kind of model? It would be impossible,” he said. But he believes everyone must enter into a system to lower overall costs and government regulation of the industry may be in order. For example, many young people who could get lower premium costs because they are in good health do not buy in because they don’t see the benefits of insurance.

“I think the more you earn the more you have to pay into the system,” he said.

“We strongly believe that we need to reform the health care system this year … [as] rising health care costs are hurting families … The American people have made it clear that they prefer a public, private approach to health care reform. But the reform should build on the types of things that are currently working to improve patient care. [Single-payer] would turn back the clock on innovative programs to improve care,” said Robert Zirkeobach, spokesman for America’s Health Insurance Plans, a national association representing nearly 1,300 health insurance companies that cover more than 200 million Americans.

Zirkeobach said AHIP advocates new market rules and stronger consumer protections, and reform can be accomplished without a “government takeover of the entire health care system.”

Justin Britanik, a spokesman for Greater Baden Medical Services, which operates a low-income clinic in Nanjemoy, said the organization has seen increased numbers of uninsured and publicly insured patients over the last year.

He called the reauthorization of funding by Congress this year to expand Medicare coverage to 11 million children, including 150,000 in Maryland, a “step in the right direction.”

Congress also passed an economic recovery plan that provided relief to states for Medicaid services and provided temporary subsides to help families maintain their health coverage after a job loss in the federal budget.

Margaret Flowers gave up her pediatric career in Maryland and joined Physicians for a National Health Program, a grassroots organization. “It came down to having to make a choice,” she said. “What do you do if your whole thing is taking care of people and you can’t take care of people?”

Flowers and Donna Smith, an activist who went bankrupt because of medical expenses, work with Paris to lobby federal legislators. On a recent Friday, the three shared coffee in the Hart Senate Building in Washington after meeting with legislative staff from the office of Sen. Benjamin C. Cardin (D-Md.).

“What they don’t want is for the government to mandate private insurance and subsidizing it because the industry is losing premium dollars every day as people lose their jobs and reduce coverage,” Flowers said.

As the debate goes on, Paris will continue to fight for the single-payer cause, she said, traveling to Capitol Hill, speaking at church and civic organization events, and preparing for her May 26 court date. “It’s just another bailout,” Paris said. “Congress is asking us to bail out the private health industry and call it universal health care, which it’s not. Health care must become the civil rights movement of this decade.”

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To learn more

To find out more about Dr. Carol A. Paris’ reform efforts, call her at 301-997-1494. Go to the Physicians for a National Health Program Web site at www.pnhp.org. America’s Health Insurance Plans has developed proposed solutions to promote coverage, raise the bar on quality and make health care services more affordable. These proposals are available at www.AHIPbelieves.com or www.americanhealthsolution.org.

Max Baucus Should Not Be Deciding Health Care for America

The "Senator for K Street" is Putting Campaign Donor Profits Ahead of the Basic Needs of the People

by Kevin Zeese
OpEdNews
May 10, 2009

Senator Max Baucus and the Senate Finance Committee are too corrupted by corporate health industry profiteers donations to give America the health care policy it needs.

Health care is 15% of the U.S. gross domestic product. Health care costs have been rising rapidly for several years. U.S. health care expenditures surpassed $2.4 trillion in 2007, more than three times the $714 billion spent in 1990. The cost of health care is projected to reach $4.4 trillion by 2018. There is a lot of room for corporate profiteering in the increasing cost of health care. So, the millions the health care industry has invested in Baucus and the Senate Finance Committee could turn out to be a very profitable one.

It is evident that any bill that comes out of the Senate Finance Committee will be a pro-industry bill that will ensure trillions in profits for the health insurance industry, HMO’s and pharmaceutical industry.

Baucus has held two hearings so far and has refused to allow advocates for the most popular reform — a single payer national health policy — to even testify. Single payer, improved Medicare for all, is favored by more than 60% of Americans as well as majorities of doctors, nurses and economists. It is the most cost-effective and efficient way to provide health care to all Americans from cradle to grave.

Why aren’t single payer advocates allowed to testify before Baucus’ committee? Follow the money. Campaign donations explain why and demonstrate that the Senate Finance Committee should not be in charge of health care. Senator Reid should remove the health care reform bill from Baucus and start all over before the Health Committee in the senate.

Here’s why Baucus is not doing the peoples business:

According to OpenSecrets.org over his career he has taken donations from:

The Insurance Industry: $1,170,313

Health Professionals $1,016,276

Pharmaceuticals/Health Products Industry $734,605

Hospitals/Nursing Homes $541,891

Health Services/HMOs $439,700

That is a grand total of $3,902,785. Can we trust Baucus to put aside the profits of the industries that have kept him in the senate? Will he put the people’s necessities ahead of the profits of his contributors? Baucus has shown his bias and should be removed from leading the health care reform effort by the Democratic Party leadership.

In 2008 Baucus had virtually no challenger in Montana. A little-known Republican was on the ballot, Baucus won with 73% of the vote. But, Baucus sought big donations from big business anyway. He used his connections to corporations with business before his committee to raise an immense campaign fund of more than $11 million. In 2008, 91% of his donations come from individuals living outside of Montana, which is why he is more the “Senator for K Street” then the Senator for Montana. Corporate health profiteers who invested in Baucus will now benefit from his stewardship over health care reform. His 2008 donations from health care profiteers included:

Insurance $592,185

Health Professionals $537,141

Pharmaceuticals/Health Products $524,813

Health Services/HMOs $364,500

Hospitals/Nursing Homes $332,826

That is $1,826,652 Baucus took from industries who he can now make wealthier by deforming health care reform.

The health care profiteers knew that Baucus would determine their fate and ponied up. Now the only thing standing between them and their payback is a single payer national health care plan. Single payer, which would end private insurance and control the cost of pharmaceutical drugs, is not being considered — not even allowed to participate in the conversation before Baucus.

And, it is not just the chairman of the committee who has received massive donations, the full Finance Committee is a gluttonous embarrassment of campaign pay-offs. In 2008 the full committee received a total of $13,263,986 from industries affected by health care reform. Can we trust this committee to put the interests of the people before their donors? The donations to the Finance Committee in 2008 included:

Insurance $5,103,900

Pharmaceuticals/Health Products $3,308,831

Hospitals/Nursing Homes $2,809,353

Health Services/HMO $2,041,902

These industries expect to be rewarded with billions, even trillions, in profits and hundreds of millions in corporate welfare. Senator Baucus’s behavior shows they have made a good investment and bought a senator who should be called Chairman Blagojevich, as I said when I was arrested last week protesting before the committee, See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52BGI5_fcUM&feature=related. He is doing his best to make sure the single payer message is not heard because he knows it is the fairest, most efficient and cost-effective way to ensure health care access for all Americans but it would put some of his donors out of business and control the profits of others.

It is time to remove Baucus from the leadership of health care reform. It is time to move the critically important priority of reforming America’s health care system from the Finance Committee and put it before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. At least their mission is health care not money.

Kevin Zeese is Executive Director of the Campaign for Fresh Air and Clean Politics (www.FreshAirCleanPolitics.net) whose projects include Voters for Peace (www.VotersForPeace.US., Prosperity Agenda (www.ProsperityAgenda.US), True Vote (www.TrueVote.US and www.TrueVoteMD.org) and Climate Security (www.GlobalClimateSecurity.org). He is also president of Common Sense for Drug Policy (www.csdp.org).

Doctors, nurses to demonstrate for single-payer health system outside Senate Finance Committee hearing

Physicians join with nurses in 'Florence Nightingale protest' in support of Medicare for All

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 11, 2009

Contacts:
Margaret Flowers, M.D.
Carol Paris, M.D.
Clark Newhall, M.D.
Mark Almberg, PNHP, (312) 782-6006, mark@pnhp.org

WASHINGTON – Physicians, nurses and other advocates of a single-payer health care system will demonstrate outside the Dirksen Senate Office Building Tuesday morning while the third and final Senate Finance Committee “public roundtable” on health care reform is being held inside.

The demonstrators will protest the continuing exclusion of single-payer advocates from the committee’s deliberations and will assert that the list of expert witnesses who have so far been invited to testify is stacked in favor of the private health insurance industry, big pharmaceutical companies and other for-profit health industry interests.

The activists will also reject this week’s pledge by the private insurance industry, big pharma, and other big health industry players to voluntarily control health costs as fanciful, noting that the corporate boards of these companies are committed to maximizing shareholder profit, a goal that has shown itself to be incompatible with cost control or compassionate and effective patient care.

Last week, at the second roundtable, eight people, including three physicians, were arrested for voicing support for a single-payer national health system. Members of the group said they resorted to respectful civil disobedience because the committee’s chairman, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), has turned a deaf ear to thousands of phone calls and faxes from people across the country, including from his home state of Montana, asking that single payer be placed “on the table.”

The arrest of the eight has led to an outpouring of support for them in the form of e-mail messages and phone calls, and has prompted additional physicians from across the nation to travel Washington to join Tuesday’s demonstration.

Single-payer advocates say that replacing the fragmented, wasteful private health insurance system that the U.S. presently has with a single-payer system would result in administrative savings of more than $400 billion annually, enough to guarantee all necessary medical care for everyone in the country and to eliminate all co-pays or deductibles. Patients would no longer be restricted to private networks and would be able to go to the doctor and hospital of their choice.

“There seems to be some confusion in Congress about what type of choice Americans want when it comes to health care,” says Dr. Margaret Flowers, one of the eight arrested May 5. “Most Americans want a choice of health care provider and hospital and a choice of treatment without interference from health insurance companies, which value profits over patients’ needs.”

Tuesday’s action, which begins at 9:30 a.m., coincides with the 189th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, the 19th-century nurse whose work was distinguished by a commitment to patient care. The protest has been called by activist caregivers and patients from the Leadership Conference on Guaranteed Health Care, including the California Nurses Association, the National Nurses Organizing Committee, and Physicians for a National Health Program.

Organizers of the protest say the current proposals by Baucus for health care reform amount to a bailout for the for-profit, private health insurance industry. Among the leading ideas is a requirement that every American buy health insurance, something that Sen. Baucus calls an “individual obligation,” but which is really a mandate like the one recently implemented in Massachusetts.

Despite the fanfare over the Massachusetts reform, single-payer advocates say it has failed to ensure universal coverage or to control costs. The Massachusetts plan is facing an acute financial crisis, they say, and should not be used as a model for national reform.

Flowers notes that, not surprisingly, those who do have a seat at the congressional health reform table represent the same interests who profit off the current multi-payer system. These include Karen Ignagni of America’s Health Insurance Plans, the CEO of Blue Cross/Blue Shield and big-business players such as the Business Roundtable.

Baucus himself has close ties to health insurance and pharmaceutical corporations. During the 2008 election cycle, he received over $1 million in donations from these sectors. Between 1999 and 2005, Baucus was one of two top recipients of special-interest dollars. Over two dozen of his former staffers have worked or are working as lobbyists on K Street. In fact, Baucus has been given the title of “K Street’s favorite Democrat” by some who follow congressional lobbying.

Polls show a solid majority of the public and of physicians now support some form of national health insurance, but these findings have been repeatedly dismissed by Baucus.

“One has to wonder how much Sen. Baucus’ close ties to the private health industry interests are causing him to disregard or marginalize majority opinion on health care reform,” said Dr. Quentin Young, national coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program. “We need a disinterested, evidence-based approach to determining what’s best for our patients and nation. We need to put all options on the table. I’m confident that with such an approach a single-payer national health program, an improved Medicare for All, will come out on top.”

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Physicians for a National Health Program, a membership organization of over 16,000 physicians, supports a single-payer national health insurance program. To contact a physician-spokesperson in your state, visit www.pnhp.org/stateactions or call (312) 782-6006.

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Ed Schultz interviews Dr. Margaret Flowers

Arrested for fighting for healthcare reform

The Ed Show
May 7, 2009
Ed Schultz interviews Dr. Margaret Flowers:
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Ed Schultz interviews Dr. Margaret Flowers

Arrested for fighting for healthcare reform

The Ed Show
May 7, 2009

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Most M.D.'s, citizens favor single-payer system

Richard Curtin, M.D.
Guest Opinion
Fort Meyers News-Press
May 7, 2009

This is in response to recent letters to the editor, which contain a number of points of misinformation regarding Medicare.

Medicare is not an example of socialized medicine, since the providers of care are not employed by the government.

The businesses are already shedding their health care insurance for employees as fast as they can and as the unemployed numbers increase, the numbers of people with health insurance will increase dramatically, already over 48 million.

The primary reason emergency rooms are filled with people is because of the people without health insurance usually cannot get care anywhere else.

Studies have shown that very little of the increase is caused by illegal immigrants since they avoid going there if at all possible.

Texas introduced caps on malpractice awards and it did little to change the rates of malpractice insurance premiums.

Total costs for medical care are approximately $8,000 per person in this country. Countries with single payer insurance usually pay about half of that. Our total costs are the highest in the industrialized the world.

By objective measurements of health care, we do not have the best care in the world. Yes, we have some of the best care but we rank about 37th in infant mortality, maternal mortality and have a lower longevity than many.

Medicare in this country allows free choice of physician, unless you join a Medicare Advantage plan run by an insurance company and then the plan may limit your choice.

I have met no one with Medicare who has chosen to give up Medicare to get their insurance in the private market.

Yes, it needs some improvement but is far superior to being without insurance or trying to pay thousands of dollars or not be able to get insurance otherwise.

A majority of physicians as well as a majority of citizens favor a single payer health care system on the basis of recent polls.

The Institute of Medicine estimates that about 20,000 people die each year in this country due to lack of health insurance.

In no other industrialized country can you lose you home, go bankrupt or die because you donâ€™t have adequate health insurance.

About 50 percent of bankruptcies are due to medical bills.

Richard Curtin, M.D., resides in Fort Myers.

Why we risked arrest for single-payer health care

By Margaret Flowers, M.D.
May 8, 2009

On May 5, eight health care advocates, including myself and two other physicians, stood up to Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and the Senate Finance Committee during a “public roundtable discussion” with a simple question: Will you allow an advocate for a single-payer national health plan to have a seat at the table?

The answer was a loud, “Get more police!” And we were arrested and hauled off to jail.

The fact that a national health insurance program is supported by the majority of the public, doctors and nurses apparently means nothing to Sen. Baucus. The fact that thousands of people in America are dying every year because they can’t get health care means nothing. The fact that over 1 million Americans go into bankruptcy every year due to medical debt — even though most of them had insurance when they got sick — means nothing.

And so, as the May 5 meeting approached, we prepared for another one of the highly scripted, well-protected events that are supposed to make up the “health care debate” using standard tools of advocacy. We organized call-in days and faxes to the members of the committee requesting the presence of one single-payer advocate at the table of 15. Despite thousands of calls and faxes, the only reply — received on the day before the event — was, “Sorry, but no more invitations will be issued.”

We knew that this couldn’t be correct. We had heard Sen. Baucus say on that very same day that “all options were on the table.” And so, the next day, we donned our suits and traveled to Washington. We had many knowledgeable single-payer advocates in our group. And as the meeting started, one of us, Mr. Russell Mokhiber, stood up to say that we were here and we were ready to take a seat. And he was promptly removed from the room.

In that moment, it all became so clear. We could write letters, phone staffers, and fax until the machines fell apart, but we would never get our seat at the table.

The senators understand that most people want a national health system and that an improved Medicare for All would include everybody and provide better health care at a lower cost. These facts mean nothing to most of them because they respond to only one standard tool of advocacy: money, and lots of it.

The people seated at the table represented the corporate interests: private health insurers and big business and those who support their agenda. The people whose voices were heard all represented organizations which pay huge sums of money to political campaigns. These interests profit greatly from the current health care industry and do not want changes that will hurt their large, personal pocketbooks.

And so, we have entered a new phase in the movement for health care as a human right: acts of civil disobedience. It is time to directly challenge corporate interests. History has shown that in order to gain human rights, we must be willing to speak out and risk arrest. We must engage in actions that expose corporate fraud and corruption. We must make our presence known.

And that is why the eight of us, knowledgeable health care advocates and providers, most of us parents, some of us grandparents, spoke out one-by-one at the Senate Finance Committee. And it is why we will continue to speak out and encourage others to do the same. Our voices must be strong enough to drown out the influence of corporate dollars.

Health care must become the civil rights movement of this decade. The opportunity is here. And we can create a single-payer national health care system.

Yes, we can.

Dr. Margaret Flowers is a pediatrician in Baltimore and co-chair of the Maryland chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP). Her statement was co-signed by Mark Dudzic, Labor Campaign for Single Payer; Russell Mokhiber, Single Payer Action; Carol Paris, M.D., PNHP; Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW!; Pat Salomon, M.D., PNHP; Adam Schneider, B’more Housing for All; and Kevin Zeese, ProsperityAgenda.us.

Most M.D.’s, citizens favor single-payer system