Patient CARE Act Posts

January 31, 2014 by 4 Comments

On Monday, January 27, 2014 Republican Senators Richard Burr (N.C.), Tom Coburn (OK) and Orrin Hatch (UT) released a fairly detailed outline of a new health reform plan: (The Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment Act, or PCARE). I will aggregate my posts on this proposal in this post:

Senators Burr and Coburn (and Rep Paul Ryan and Devin Nunes) introduced the Patients’ Choice Act in May, 2009. Here are several links to that proposal (that differs in important ways from the most recent proposal)

In February, 2012 Senators Burr and Coburn introduced the Seniors Choice Act, that focuses on Medicare. The most recent proposal does not mention Medicare, nor SCA

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About Don Taylor
Professor of Public Policy (with appointments in Business, Nursing, Community and Family Medicine, and the Duke Clinical Research Institute), and Chair of the Academic Council at Duke University https://academiccouncil.duke.edu/ . I am one of the founding faculty of the Margolis Center for Health Policy. My research focuses on improving care for persons who are dying, and I am co-PI of a CMMI award in Community Based Palliative Care. I teach both undergrads and grad students at Duke. On twitter @donaldhtaylorjr

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