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This Viewpoint discusses the potential benefits and harms of prior authorization in Medicare Advantage and the health policy implications and opportunities for

Both the House health care reform bill (H.R. 3200) and the bill authored by Senator Baucus would increase government spending by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade, even afterassuming massive "savings" from cutting waste and inefficiency inMedicare and Medicaid. If lawmakers can easily cut nearly $1trillion in waste from Medicare and Medicaid over the next 20years, they should do so to reduce Medicare's $36 trillion unfundedobligation, not to fund massive new health care benefits.

President Bush's health care agenda would increase public andprivate coverage for millions of Americans. The outlined healthpolicy agenda introduces key changes in the conventional financingand delivery of health care. Chief among the proposals are healthcare tax credits for lower-income individuals and families and newmarket-based insurance reforms to enable Americans to purchaseprivate health coverage.

/PRNewswire/ -- Today, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) hosted a policy summit to examine practice changes and trends in legislative and...

National Comprehensive Cancer Network's #NCCNPolicy Summit, featuring White House Moonshot Coordinator and representatives from CDC, NCI, and USPSTF, examines