The Health Policy Exchange

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

This month's Georgetown University Health Policy Seminar explored the politics of "Romneycare," a state-level health reform which in many ways made possible the future Affordable Care Act. It was one thing to ask drivers to buy car insurance. Owning a car is a choice. Was it as important, for example, as LBJ's advocacy for Medicare?

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The Health Policy Exchange

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

and abroad was the topic of a recent Georgetown University Health Policy Seminar. Should state and local governments provide direct grants or tax relief to promising startups? We debated the types of policies that would be most likely to encourage innovations that make a positive difference for individuals and populations.

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The Health Policy Exchange

MAY 20, 2013

In this month's Georgetown University Health Policy seminar, we discussed two examples, anemia drugs and the diabetes drug rosiglitazone (Avandia) , which were prominently featured in recent articles by Peter Whoriskey in The Washington Post. The size of average doses would more than triple. Could the FDA and other U.S.

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