"Health Policy Groups Prepare for a Day of Spin", from Capsules the KHN Blog

We owe to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights, which they have delivered to our care; we owe it to your posterity, not to suffer thier dearest ineritance to be destroyed.

The Letters  of Junius 176-1771)

June 27, 2012 - Here are some ways health policy groups are preparing for Thursday’s decision:

·         The National Federation of Independent Businesses’ Legal Center has scheduled a media conference call for Thursday at noon. The group, which is one of the plaintiffs in the challenge to the federal health law, will also host a live-chat on Thursday at 1:00 p.m.

·         Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, also a plaintiff, will host a live news conference in Richmond, Va., and teleconference call on Thursday at noon, after he has had an opportunity to study the ruling. The attorney general will also send out an immediate reaction to the ruling at 10:15 A.M. A link to the video press conference will be posted on Cuccinelli’s website.

·         The National Health Council, a patient advocacy group comprised of more than 100 member organizations, created their own website dedicated to the Supreme Court’s decision. The group will be posting statements, documents and other responses from their member organizations on the website on decision-day.

·         The National Council of La Raza, a civil rights and advocacy group for the Latino community, will be hosting a Twitter-chat Friday to broadcast their reactions and to explain what kind of impact they expect the Supreme Court’s actions will have on Latino, LGBT and female Americans.

·         Jessica Arons, the director of the Women’s Health and Rights Program at the Center For American Progress will also host a Twitter-chat Friday

·         Young Invicibles, the advocacy group that focuses on young adult health care issues, is holding a press call at 12:30 p.m. Thursday. On the same day, the group is going to host a Twitter-Chat (@YI_Care) at 1 p.m., using the hashtag #Young AmerChat.

·         The Employee Benefits Research Institute published a blog post last Friday written by director of health research Paul Fronstin that looks at what employers may do once the Supreme Court makes a decision.

·         Brookings and the American Enterprise Institute have lined up experts to speak about the various outcomes

·         The National Coalition On Health Care said they will release a statement on Thursday. Their president and CEO John Rother is already scheduled to talk to media on the day of the decision.

·         Avram Goldstein, a spokesman for Health Care For America Now! said that on Thursday, their partnerships around the country will conduct various events from rallies to press conferences. “Each group does its own thing in a different way. Maybe going to a hospital, maybe visiting an Attorney General’s office, maybe visiting a member of Congress.” He said that his organization is going to have a spreadsheet of all the different events happening around the country and will share it with the public on the day of the Supreme Court decision.

·         The CATO Institute initially planned to host a policy forum on June 28^th, but pushed their event to July 2^nd now that the Supreme Court is going to make a decision on the 28th. The forum, which will address the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision on the health care law, will include Randy Barnett from Georgetown University Law Center, Avik Roy from the Manhattan Institute and Grace-Marie Turner from the Galen Institute.

·         Health Affairs, the peer-reviewed health care journal, is hosting an event on Friday, June 29th at Georgetown University’s Law Center to talk about how the Supreme Court’s decision will affect Americans. Their panel includes: David B. Rivkin, a lawyer who representing the 26 states that challenged the constitutionality of the health care law, M. Gregg Bloche from Georgetown University and author of The Hippocratic Myth: Why Doctors Are Under Pressure to Ration Care, Practice Politics, and Compromise Their Promise to Heal, and Sara Rosenbaum, a professor at George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services who helped draft part of President Clinton’s health care proposal.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 27th, 2012 at 8:43 am.

Two Responses to “Health Policy Groups Prepare For Day Of Spin”

# One Response, If the high court rules to fully uphold Obamacare, the biggest winners will be the private insurance companies. They will see 30 plus million new subscribers enter the health care insurance market. Next in line in the winners circle will be the hospitals. They will see a dramatically reduced volume of charity care as less uninsured freeloaders will be walking into their emergency rooms expecting free “mandated” charity health care. If the high court does as Republicans want them to do and they strike down Obamacare, we will all go back to business as usual in a broken fee-for-service health care system that is twice the cost of any other nation on earth and ranks 37th worldwide in delivery and efficiency. We will return to insurance companies canceling your policy if you get sick. Students and other young adults will get tossed off their parent’s policy. Seniors will see Donut Hole relief end and they will also see the end of free preventive testing. No wonder Republicans are called Neanderthals and Tea Party cave dwellers

#2 Response - My response to first response

This is fairly typical elitist spin,

Namely, should the GOP win,

It will be a triumph of the Neanderthal

A victory for the cave dwellers folderal

Only liberals, you see, have minds,

Others represent mankind’s behinds.

Only Obama et al have real compassion,

Conservative shutdown is out of fashion.

Only libs know how to spend others’ money,

Even if it’s not there, which is not so funny.

My question:  what speaks of more intelligence,

Spend it now, or save future generation's inheritance.

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