Irwin Redlener, M.D.

[emilyg]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/irwin-redlener-md/obama-hires-harry-and-lo_b_84716.html

[kikiek]

1. This is a great post with pertinent information. It deserves to be read.

[BootinUp]

2. K&R

[K Gardner]

3. Great. Just fucking great.

[DDQ]

4. I believe in universal health insurance. Can other democrats at

least agree to this? I know people who die because of this issue. If the democrats don't stand up and fight for this issue I don't think anyone else will.

We have to demand this.

[Jed Dilligan]

34. I don't believe in health insurance

I believe in taxes subsidizing medicine for all. As soon as I have "an account" I know I am fucked.

[DDQ]

35. Do you believe in single payer system?

[Jed Dilligan]

36. Yes, I could get behind it

Paying premiums in the meantime will royally fuck up my life, though, so don't go talking about a "bridge."

[midnight]

39. It seems that many in the industry think that when they deny your

benefits they are saving money.. Think about all the money that is wasted in appeals. Insurance co. waste money and lifes. Time to dump them.

[Bread and Circus]

5. I don't think he should be "weighing in" w/ his MD considering he is a $$$ backer of Clinton

posted 02/03/08
Redlener, Irwin
New Rochelle , NY 10804
Columbia U/Physician

CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM (D)
President
HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT

$2,300
primary

________________'


He's the same asshole that said Obama will leave 15 million Americans out in the cold.

I think he has a dog in the fight. Sorry, but I don't buy his bullshit. Don't be surprised if this guy isn't being tapped for a position in Hillary's administration. He has worked with her on legislative efforst in the past.

He is not an impartial actor, sorry.

[BootinUp]

6. The 15 million uninsured number

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2007/12/03/so-about-that-15-million-figure-you-ve-been-hearing.aspx

So maybe you should retract that charge anyways. Heaven forbid the Doc get involved in the political process.

[Bread and Circus]

9. I didn't say he started it, but he has promoted it in his writings.

And yes, him and Clinton have a collaborative relationship in the past.

All I'm saying is he's not impartial and for him to act so, is disingenous.

[Bread and Circus]

11. I just found out he's a Clinton health care advisor and he doesn't disclose it in the article

nice :wtf:

[Garbo 2004]

12. But not an Edwards advisor? Clinton basically appropriated Edwards' plan which came out first. n/t

[Bread and Circus]

13. From a 1993 article. You see Redlener and the Clintons go way back -not disclosed by Redlener either

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE0DC163DF93BA15757C0A965958260

The vice chairman is Dr. Irwin E. Redlener, president of the Children's Health Fund, a foundation that supports mobile clinics for children in New York, New Jersey, West Virginia, Mississippi, Florida and Texas.

Dr. Redlener was chairman of the National Health Leadership Council, a group of 300 health professionals who supported Mr. Clinton's campaign last year. He said he worked briefly in March for Hillary Rodham Clinton's Task Force on National Health Care Reform. 'Independent Group'

I'm sorry but the articles he's posted on Huffpost are blatant talking points straight out of the Clinton campaign. He is extremely tied to the Clintons well over 14 years.

You think he's unbiased?

What kind of fucking shit is this that the Clintons and their good doctor are trying to pull over our eyes?

[Bread and Circus]

14. Here's another link supporting the long standing relationship

http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/other/articles/2006/12/18/mass_health_plan_drawing_interest_as_model_for_us/?page=2
Dr. Irwin Redlener, a member of the Clinton healthcare task force in the early 1990s

________________________

It sticks in my craw that he doesn't disclose his relationship with the Clintons in his articles.

[Bread and Circus]

16. Here's another example of the Redlener - Clinton partnership: Elian Gonzalez >>

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0004/18/cf.00.html

Crossfire
Is Elian Gonzalez in Imminent Danger?
Aired April 18, 2000 - 7:30 p.m. ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DR. IRWIN REDLENER, PEDIATRICIAN: There's already evidence that this child is suffering from psychological abuse in an emotionally charged, highly political environment, and he needs to be removed from there.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BILL PRESS, CO-HOST: Tonight, is Elian Gonzalez in imminent danger? A pediatrician advising the government says yes. Should Elian be taken away from his Miami relatives immediately?

ANNOUNCER: Live from Washington, CROSSFIRE. On the left, Bill Press; on the right, Robert Novak. In the crossfire, in New York, Dr. Irwin Redlener, president of the Children's Hospital at Montefiore and the pediatrician advising the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and later, in Miami, Ramon Saul Sanchez, president of the Democracy Movement.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PRESS: Good evening. Welcome to CROSSFIRE.

Elian Gonzalez is in serious danger and should be removed from the home of his Miami relatives and reunited with his father immediately. That's the conclusion of a blistering letter sent to Attorney General Janet Reno and INS Commissioner Doris Meissner by a leading child psychologist (sic).

Dr. Irwin Redlener, our first guest tonight, who headed a team of health advisers on the Gonzalez case, told Reno -- quote -- "Elian Gonzalez is now in a state of imminent danger to his physical and emotional well-being in a home that I consider to be psychologically abusive" -- end quote.

_______________________________________________

From what I can tell from information ont the internet he is a general pediatrician in academia, NOT a child psychiatrist. Nor did he ever actually interview or examine Elian Gonzalez.

It seems apparent he will go to bat for the Clintons when the need arises.

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17. And for those that really don't believe me: Columbia's webite

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=132&topic_id=4377952&mesg_id=4379133

Disaster preparedness
Irwin Redlener
Associate Dean for Public Health Advocacy and Disaster Preparedness and Director of National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Mailman School of Public Health

Dr. Irwin Redlener heads a new policy center on disaster preparedness. Redlener, former president of Montefiore Medical Center’s Children’s Hospital, is a prominent voice on a number of health issues, including bioterrorism, and an adviser to many elected officials, including Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). He also serves as president of the Children’s Health Fund, a nonprofit group based in Manhattan.


Teacher recruitment and certification

_________________________________________________

But does he disclose that in his Huffpo article? Not clearly, that's for sure. I couldn't find it.

[Bread and Circus]

19. Yet another Redlener and Clinton hooking up on a project...

New Community-based Centers of Excellence
Supported by United Health Foundation Will Establish
New Standard of Child and Family Health Services

Senator Hillary Clinton Joins The United Health Foundation and The Children’s Health Fund at the Announcement of an Innovative New Partnership between UHF and CHF to Deliver Enhanced Health Services to Underserved and 650,000 Uninsured Children

NEW YORK (March 16, 2004) – The United Health Foundation today announced a multi-year grant to The Children's Health Fund for a major new initiative to expand The Children's Health Fund’s capacity in order to bring the most innovative services to medically underserved children and families. The announcement was made at a ribbon cutting ceremony and press conference attended by Senator Hillary Clinton.

New rollbacks in state Medicaid and SCHIP programs are threatening insurance coverage for children. The Children's Health Fund has determined that the medical consequences for affected children will be significant, setting them up for a lifetime of poor health conditions and diminishing the likelihood that they will ever be able to gain access to an important “medical home” relationship within the health care system.

The United Health Foundation has provided a three-year, $3 million grant for The Children's Health Fund to develop a newly designated “Community-based Center of Excellence.” This initiative will develop and evaluate a specially enhanced medical home model, building upon The Children's Health Fund’s 16 years of providing comprehensive, family-centered medical care to some of the most underserved communities in America.

Dr. William McGuire, the chair of the United Health Foundation, expressed his enthusiasm for the new collaboration. “We know there are serious conditions that disproportionately affect disadvantaged and underserved children and ultimately undermine their ability to become healthy and productive adults. In 2003, the United Health Foundation gave a similar grant to the Unity Clinic in Washington, DC., and it is our hope that these grants will serve as models as we all attempt to address this urgent need. Our goal is to make these Centers of Excellence the medical clinics of choice, not clinics of last resort.”


According to The Children's Health Fund’s President and Co-founder, Irwin Redlener, M.D, “Our experience and commitment to serving this population since 1987 has given us a platform and clear sense of what is particularly needed by underserved children. This new opportunity allows us to expand the medical home model, to include a set of newly-developed The Children's Health Fund clinical initiatives.” Dr. Redlener continued, “We have to develop new models of care, including asking some hard questions about whether the traditional pediatric care model is effective as possible. The challenges we face today are unprecedented and call for much more attention paid to ‘the new agenda, including: extraordinary rates of childhood asthma, growing prevalence of obesity and type 2 diabetes in children, HIV prevention and better pregnancy outcomes.”

Senator Clinton emphasized the importance of such partnerships to assist economically disadvantaged and underserved communities that continue to be desperately in need of support. “I know that this partnership between the United Health Foundation and The Children’s Health Fund will lead to better health now and into the future, for those children and families who need it most,” she said. “It’s part of a critical national agenda that has to lead to better health care access for all children and families in the country.” The Senator continued, “I wholeheartedly support this effort to treat underserved children in the enhanced community-based Centers of Excellence --and look forward to sharing the results of this collaboration with many communities where this kind of medical intervention is needed, but seldom available at the level made possible by this new partnership.”

UnitedHealth Group established the United Health Foundation in 1999 as a nonprofit, private foundation with a mission to support health and medical decisions that lead to better health outcomes and healthier communities. To align with the decisions made by physicians and other health professionals, United Health Foundation distributes the BMJ’s publication, Clinical Evidence, without charge to more than 500,000 of our nation's physicians, physicians-in-training, and nurses twice a year. To advocate healthy communities, the United Health Foundation annually publishes America's Health: State Health Rankings – a comprehensive, state-by-state analysis of the relative healthiness of the American population. To support the health choices made by individuals, the United Health Foundation
partners with well-respected organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Patient Safety Foundation, and the National Health Council to provide trustworthy and evidence-based educational tips. More information can be found at the United Health Foundation website at www.unitedhealthfoundation.org.

The Children’s Health Fund works nationally to provide medical care to the most medically underserved population – homeless and disadvantaged children. To date, The Children’s Health Fund’s national network of 17 pediatric programs has treated more than 300,000 children. More information can be found at The Children’s Health Fund website at www.childrenshealthfund.org.

________________________________

I can't help but think somehow Clinton is somehow helping Redlener get some of the funding for his projects. Not that it's wrong, as these are worthwhile projects. It's just that it further goes along with a pattern between Redlener and the Clinton's that firmly establishes his bias.

Yet, he does not disclose any of this on Huffpo.

These things cannot be taken at face value.

[Garbo 2004]

30. You didn't address the fact that Clinton's plan is basically Edwards plan.

Doesn't matter who the doc on HuffPo is or how involved he's been with Clinton, since Clinton punted and basically adopted Edwards' plan as her own.

And we know Edwards was a notorious shill for the health care industry, right? (That's sarcasm in case anyone missed it.)

John Edwards broke the issue of health care reform open in February, when he proposed a smart and serious plan for universal health insurance — and bravely announced his willingness to pay for the plan by letting some of the Bush tax cuts expire. Suddenly, universal health care went from being a distant progressive dream to something you could actually envision happening in the next administration.

Senator Clinton delayed a long time before coming out with her own plan — a delay that created a lot of anxiety among health care reformers, and may, as I’ll explain in a minute, be a bad omen for the future. Still, this week she did deliver a plan, and it’s as strong as the Edwards plan — because unless you get deep into the fine print, the Clinton plan basically is the Edwards plan.

That’s not a criticism; it’s much more important that a politician get health care right than that he or she score points for originality. Senator Clinton may be politically cautious, but she does understand health care economics and she knows a good thing when she sees it.

The Edwards and Clinton plans as well as the slightly weaker but similar Obama plan achieve universal-or-near-universal coverage through a well-thought-out combination of insurance regulation, subsidies and public-private competition. These plans may disappoint advocates of a cleaner, simpler single-payer system. But it’s hard to see how Medicare for all could get through Congress any time in the near future, whereas Edwards-type plans offer a reasonable second best that you can actually envision being enacted by a Democratic Congress and signed by a Democratic president just two years from now. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/opinion/21krugman.html

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31. Actually if you would do your reading, you'd note all 3 plans are very

similar. As are almost all of their policy positions. Part of the reason is a lot of the time they talk to the same "experts" when forming policy positions. Also, they "conform" to each other in order to avoid the election process actually being about issues. They'd rather stick with spin.

However, that's just a sidetrack to the topic at hand which is Redlener, his op/ed, and his ties to the Clinton's.

[Garbo 2004]

33. Not a sidetrack since the topic is defending an Edwards type plan that does cover all against

a disingenuous Republican like attack from the Obama campaign.

Are Obama's claims about the Clinton plan accurate? Yes or no?

And is evoking the specter of the famous Harry & Louise attack ad really such a smart idea for a Dem candidate, considering he has a health care plan that also has a mandated element? I'm not a Hillary fan, but what the hell is the Obama campaign thinking with that stunt? He leaves himself open to the same attack not to mention abetting Repub attacks against universal health care coverage.

[LiberalHeart]

32. And the latest from Krugman on Hillary's health care plan versus Obama's...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/04/opinion/04krugman.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

[avaistheone1]

20. If Hillary has the Edward's plan that would be great.

Edwards' plan offered people choices where they could stay with their current plan or NOT. It was also built so that a transition to single-payer health coverage was possible.

[BootinUp]

23. Whether or not thats true, it doesn't change the argument in the article.

all you have is trying to discredit the messenger. Such a tired tactic.

[Bread and Circus]

27. The message is a subjective one, therefore the motives and...

relationships of the messenger matter. All he had to do was disclose his dealings with the Clinton's which is extensive and ranges from 1992 health care advisory positions to the Elian Gonzalez controversy (where he pulled a Bill Frist on behalf of the Reno and the Clintons). But, alas, he didn't. He discredits himself as an objective physician observer.

I gave his article a read, however. I just don't buy his premises. His relationships with the Clinton's nonwithstanding.

[anamandujano]

7. an excerpt

It is simply false that Senator Clinton's plan would "force everyone to buy insurance, even if you can't afford it." In fact, Senator Clinton's plan not only includes nearly twice the resources for health care tax credits as the Obama campaign but would cap premiums at a low share of a family's income, to ensure that everyone could afford to be in the system. And according to the Commonwealth Fund, the best way to maximize cost reductions in health care is to make it truly universal, with an individual requirement as part of the shared responsibility needed to make the whole system work.

[jillan]

8. I heard about this.

unbelievable!

[adapa]

10. We are gonna get screwed again-

[anamandujano]

15. interesting--from the comments section

We will have to wait a long time for the press or the Obama campaign to apologize for anything- Healthcare is one of the cornerstones of Hillary Clinton's campaign. Given the Paul Krugman assessment of Obama's plan vs. Clinton's it's no wonder their Obama people had to use smear tactics. Having Robert Gibbs, Obama's communications director, one of those responsible for the Howard Dean/Osama bin Laden face morph ad, do we wonder that Obama's people have managed to stay below the radar for a whole host of nasty tricks-thanks msm- our country deserves better.

Wow!

[Straight Shooter]

29. HOLY CRAP!! That deserves a thread of its own. GOOD CATCH!

Here's the link to the hateful, vile ad:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/16/politics/main588924.shtml

"In its third ad in the past two weeks, the secretive 527 group Americans for Jobs, Healthcare & Progressive Values (AJHPV) brings out its harshest attacks to date against Howard Dean.

The ad's sole visual is a slowly moving shot of a Time Magazine cover featuring Osama bin Laden. As the picture zooms in on a close-up of bin Laden’s eyes, the announcer intones, "Howard Dean just cannot compete with George Bush on foreign policy." The ad concludes by asking Democrats – presumably those who currently support Dean - to "think about that … and think about it now."

The ad began airing in New Hampshire and South Carolina on Saturday, before the capture of Saddam Hussein. Two other AJHPV anti-Dean ads have aired in Iowa, both ending with a domestic variation of the Osama warning: "If you thought Howard Dean had a progressive record … check the facts … and think again." Overall, AJHPV has pledged to spend $400,000 on advertising in Iowa.

"AJHPV's new spokesman is former John Kerry press secretary Robert Gibbs, who left the Massachusetts senator's campaign when his boss, Jim Jordan, was fired. The Kerry camp also denies any connection with the 527 group. Both the Gephardt and Kerry campaigns have gone on the air with positive ads this week, leaving the Dean bashing to AJHPV."

And YES HE IS Obama's communications director.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_Gibbs

"Robert Gibbs is communications director for U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill).) and currently serves as communications director for Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.

Gibbs, a "longtime communications operative with a special focus on the Senate, has been with Obama since shortly after his 2004 primary victory. Prior to that Gibbs served as a spokesman for Sen. John Kerry's (D-Mass.) presidential bid."<1>

Gibbs, like Obama's national campaign manager David Plouffe, "has experience in the nitty-gritty of Democratic politics, having served as the communications director at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and as campaign spokesman for Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.) in 1998."<1>"

[in_cog_ni_to]

38. OMG! This is unfreakin'believable! Mr. Nice Guy, seems not to be so nice, eh?

What happened to that "positive" campaign he would run? Hillary should never have trusted him. She should go on the attack, NOW. We now know what to expect from this guy...and it's NOT going to be nice.

[OzarkDem]

18. Obama hates health care reform

No one could actually want to reform the health care system if they pull these kinds of stunts. Obama wants to sabotage it, all of it.

[chascarrillo]

26. Keep hate alive!

[ProSense]

21. 85 experts on Obama's plan,

Here:

Stuart Altman
Dean and Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy
Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Brandeis University

M. Gregg Bloche, MD, JD
Professor of Law
Georgetown University
Non-Resident Senior Fellow
The Brookings Institution
Adjunct Professor
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University

Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH
Professor
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
Department of Sociology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Harvard University

David Matchar, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for Clinical Health Policy Research
Duke University Medical Center

E. Richard Brown, PhD
Professor of Health Policy
UCLA School of Public Health

Henry J. Aaron
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
The Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Chair
The Brookings Institution
Paul Weiler
Emeritus Professor of Law
Harvard Law School

Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine
Director, Center for Health Policy Research
Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

Harold Pollack, MPP, PhD
Faculty Chair, Center for Health Administration Studies
Associate Professor
School of Social Service Administration
University of Chicago

Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD
Carolyn and Matthew Bucksbaum Professor of Clinical Ethics
Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Surgery
Associate Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
University of Chicago

David Blumenthal, MD, MPP
Director, Institute for Health Policy
Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital
Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Professor of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School

Theodore Marmor, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Management
Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Yale School of Management

Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH
University Distinguished Professor
Johns Hopkins University

Paula Lantz, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Health Management and Policy
University of Michigan

Mark Schlesinger, PhD
Professor of Health Policy
Yale University

Nancy L. Keating, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School

Gerald F. Kominski, PhD
Associate Dean for Academic Programs
Professor, Department of Health Services
UCLA School of Public Health

Diane S. Lauderdale
Associate Professor
Department of Health Studies
University of Chicago

David Cutler
Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics
Harvard University

Einer Elhauge
Petrie Professor of Law
Director, Petrie-Flom Center in Health Law Policy
Harvard Law School

Kathleen A Cagney
Associate Professor
Department of Health Studies
University of Chicago

Ronald S. Sullivan Jr.
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Harvard Criminal Justice Institute
Harvard Law School

Henry J. Steiner
Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor Emeritus
Harvard Law School

Martha Minow
Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor
Harvard Law School

Jerry Mashaw, PhD
Sterling Professor of Law and Management
Yale University

Laurie Zoloth, PhD
Director, Center for Bioethics, Science and Society
Director, Brady Program in Ethics and Leadership
Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University

Dayna Bowen Matthew
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Professor of Law
University of Colorado School of Law

Elizabeth Bartholet
Morris Wasserstein Professor of Law
Faculty Director, Child Advocacy Program
Harvard Law School

Ellen Meara, PhD
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School

Donald E. Fry, MD, FACS
Professor Emeritus
Department of Surgery
University of New Mexico School of Medicine

Mark E. Courtney
Ballmer Endowed Chair for Child Well-Being
School of Social Work
University of Washington

Jacqueline Fox
Assistant Professor
School of Law
University of South Carolina

Oliver Oldman
Learned Hand Professor of Law, Emeritus
Harvard Law School

Jane Loewenson
Partner
Nueva Vista Group LLC

Laurence H. Tribe
Carl M. Loeb University Professor
Harvard Law School

Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
Visiting Professor, Widener University School of Law
Senior Scholar, Thomas Jefferson University Medical College
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Memphis School of Law

Mervin Shalowitz, MD Visiting Scholar
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University

Barbara A. Noah
Associate Professor
Western New England College School of Law

William Pitsenberger
Adjunct Professor, Health Law and Policy
Washburn University School of Law

Philip J. Rosenthal
Professor
Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

Sarah-Anne Schumann, MD
Clinical Associate
Department of Family Medicine
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Chicago Family Health Center

Daniel H. Lowenstein, MD
Professor of Neurology
Director, Physician-Scientist Education and Training Programs
University of California, San Francisco

Jonathan Skinner, PhD
Professor
Dartmouth College & Medical School

Robin Henry Dretler MD, FIDSA
President
Infectious Disease Specialists of Atlanta

Laurel Coleman, MD, CMD, FACP
Physician
Augusta, Maine

Ann M Labriola, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Medicine
George Washington University Medical Center

Jens Ludwig
Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy
University of Chicago

Norman Daniels
Professor of Ethics and Population Health
Harvard School of Public Health

Donald H. Taylor, Jr. Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Duke University

Colleen Grogan
Faculty Director, Graduate Program on Health Administration and Policy
Associate Professor
School of Social Service Administration
University of Chicago

Leon Wyszewianski, PhD
Associate Professor
Director, Executive Master's Program
Department of Health Management and Policy
University of Michigan School of Public Health

John Henning Schumann, MD
Section of General Internal Medicine
MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
Human Rights Program
University of Chicago

Michael Pine
Lecturer in Medicine
University of Chicago

Wade S. Smith, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco

Keith W.L. Rafal, MD, MPH
Assistant Clinical Professor
Brown University Medical School

Bob Arnold
Professor of Medicine
Leo H Criep Chair in Patient Care
Chief, Section of Palliative care and Medical Ethics
University of Pittsburgh

James Tulsky, MD
Professor of Medicine and Nursing
Duke University

William M. Altman, JD, MA
Senior Vice President of Strategy and Public Policy
Kindred Healthcare, Inc.

Rebekah E. Gee, MD, MPH
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar
University of Pennsylvania

Clarissa K. Wittenberg
Health Education Consultant

Jason Block, MD
Physician
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Harlan M. Krumholz, MD SM
Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine
Yale University

S. Claiborne Johnston, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology and Epidemiology
Director, Stroke Service
University of California, San Francisco

Richard Kronick
Professor
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine
University of California, San Diego

Maggie Czarnogorski, MD
George Washington University
Carl Vogel Center, Medical Director

Howard P. Forman MD, MBA
Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, Management, and Public Health
Lecturer, Economics
Director, Yale MD/MBA Program and Yale MBA for Executives: Leadership In Healthcare
Yale University

William Terry, MD
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Rahul Rajkumar, MD, JD
Physician
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Frederick A Masoudi, MD, MSPH
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Denver Health Medical Center
University

David A. Richardson
Health Care Consultant

Helen Levy, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
University of Michigan

Robert Burt, JD, MA
Professor
Yale Law School

David B. Wilkins
Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law
Director Program on the Legal Profession
Harvard Law School

Gene Webb, PhD
Manager of Planning
Biological Sciences Division
Pritzker School of Medicine
University of Chicago

Nikhil Wagle, MD
Physician
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Clifford E. Douglas, JD
Executive Director, University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network
Adjunct Lecturer, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Senior Policy Fellow, Michigan Public Health Institute

Thomas G. McGuire
Professor of Health Economics
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School

Robert A. Berenson, MD
Senior Fellow
The Urban Institute

Stanley S. Wallack
Professor
Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Brandeis University

Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Jesse Climenko Professor of Law,
Harvard Law School

Jon Klein, MD, PhD
James Graham Brown Foundation Endowed Chair in Proteomics
University of Louisville

Sara Rosenbaum
Chair, Department of Health Policy
Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy
Professor of Health Care Sciences
George Washington University

John C. Coates IV
John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics
Harvard Law School

Peter J. Hammer
Professor of Law
Wayne State University Law School

Meredith B. Rosenthal, PhD
Associate Professor of Health Economics and Policy
Department of Health Policy and Management
Harvard School of Public Health

Barron H. Lerner, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Public Health
Columbia University

Lucian L. Leape, MD Harvard School of Public Health

Kasturi Haldar
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor
Department of Pathology
Northwestern University


link

[Bread and Circus]

28. Prosense, if you research on Redlener you will find he is very biased

toward the Clintons and has a longstanding working relationship with them since 1992 as a senior Clinton-Gore health policy advisor, an advisor on Hillary's failed 1993 plan, the Elian Gonzalez case, and mutual interest in current health projects.

It is obvious that Redlener is acting as a Clinton camp shill but doesn't disclose that in his articles on Huffpo.

However, I want to add thanks for all your great work her on GDP!!!

[LadyVT]

22. Thank you.

[adapa]

24. k&R

[LadyVT]

25. As a psychologist...

I feel strongly about this. First, people need to be able to afford insurance. Hillary's plan makes insurance affordable to everyone; if it is not, subsidies are provided which cover the cost of the (much less expensive than now) premiums. Therefore, everyone is covered. Second, people's health needs must be covered by the insurance. Hillary's plan covers pre-existing conditions, and includes mental illness--not just schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression (as is now true in California)--but anxiety disorders and post traumatic stress disorder, no matter how rich or poor you are.

Nearly all of my clients are self-pay clients, and my practice is full, so it doesn't impact my business one whit whether or not we have universal health care. But it sure will make the lives of people needing mental health help a lot easier. With everyone covered, those 15 million uninsured Obama's plan does not cover will not rocket up the rates of the rest of us anymore.

[adapa]

37. k&R