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Tiller's Patients, Not Critics, Should Be Ones To 'Define His Memory,' Opinion Piece Says
In a "portrayal that defied logic," George Tiller -- the Kansas abortion provider who was murdered last month -- has been depicted "on Web sites, TV and radio talk shows and in legislative hearings as the reckless "abortionist," willing to euthanize babies close to birth just so the mother could fit into a prom dress or attend a rock concert," Barbara Shelly, a member of the Kansas City Star editorial board, writes in a Star opinion piece. She asks, "Would someone in the third trimester of pregnancy travel to the heart of Kansas and pay a $6,000 fee just to fit into a size six party dress?" Shelly adds that the "overwhelming majority of the 250 to 300 women a year" that sought abortions from Tiller in the second and third trimesters had planned their pregnancies. She profiles a Missouri college professor, pregnant with twins, who traveled to Tiller"s clinic with her husband to obtain an abortion after an amniocentesis revealed that neither fetus would survive and that she faced potentially life-threatening complications if the pregnancy continued. Shelly writes that the woman and others like her went to Tiller "heartbroken and afraid, carrying fetuses with malfunctioning kidneys, missing organs and syndromes certain to cause death in the womb or soon after birth." A smaller number were survivors of rape and incest, including young girls, according to Shelly. The "prom queen who talked her way into a late-term abortion" is a "creation of Tiller"s enemies," Shelly writes, concluding that the "real people" affected by his death are the "thousands who wrote the notes that now serve as a memorial wall to a fallen physician. They are the ones who should define his memory" (Shelly, Kansas City Star, 6/9).
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Obama Considers Taxing Health Benefits To Pay For Reform
As President Obama looks for a way to pay for health care reform in the United States, key Democrats advocate taxing employer-provided health benefits, The Washington Post reports.
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Obama Administration Faces Increasing Challenges To Health Reform

The Obama administration is facing increasing opposition to various aspects of health reform proposals - especially the idea of a "public plan." In an interview with The New York Times and CNBC, President Obama said that the public plan approach is "sensible," he is willing to be flexible. "Let"s just make sure that, you know, we"re open-minded. And if, for example, the cooperative idea that Kent Conrad has put forward, if that is a better way to reduce costs and help families and business with their health care, I"m more than happy to accept those good ideas," Obama said. He added that spending could be reduced significantly by trimming costs within the health care system. "Medicare and Medicaid, the biggest cost drivers are ones that we can reform if we look at how we"re reimbursing doctors and hospitals, if we look at prevention and health IT, if we look at the concept of comparative effectiveness. Those communities that are doing a better job providing high-quality care at low cost, let"s duplicate that across the system" (Harwood, 6/16). Meanwhile, when USA Today interviewed CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf on Monday, he said that the cost to cover the 46 million uninsured Americans "will continue to rise, and savings from efforts to curb health care spending may be elusive." Elmendorf said the savings Obama mentions "cutting costs in high-spending regions, expanding best practices and bundling services - won"t be easy to achieve," USA Today reports. "There"s tremendous potential to reap savings in the health sector without harming health, but turning that potential into reality is challenging̣€¦ It"s going to be a long, hard slog," Elmendorf said. As for eliminating regional variations in medical spending, "the director said that"s due to ingrained ways of treating patients," which is not easily altered" (Wolf, 6/17). In a news analysis, The Philadelphia Inquirer calls health care "the sternest political test so far in [Obama"s] young presidency]. Voters "worry that government might assume too much control of health care, and most pronounce themselves satisfied with the insurance they have." The paper quotes Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, who "wrote in a memo summarizing the results of his recent Democracy Corps survey on the issue: "People really need to know how they will pay less, how the plan will be paid for, and how they will have choice... Their presumption is that reform costs more, not less - and so, we have to be doubly diligent, respecting how personal a choice this is for people in very tough times."" "And a recent Rasmussen Reports poll "found that only 32 percent of Americans believed a government-run insurance plan would, in fact, lower costs." The public plan is a "key element" of Obama"s health care initiative, but it has spurred "intense opposition" from Republicans as well as special interest groups, including doctors, hospitals and insurers. The Administration has recently back-stepped on the issue. "White House senior adviser David Axelrod said yesterday that Obama was not wedded to a public plan"s being entirely funded or run by the government" (Fitzgerald, 6/17). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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