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The temptation to call the Beltway the land where ideas go to die wilts under any discussion of a nationally implemented standard benefit package that would, some believe, ensure universal coverage. Washington, D.C., is in fact a place where ideas rarely die. They are put in storage, then rediscovered, dusted off, and trotted out every other decade or so. Then they are examined by committees that ooh and ah, much the same way that committees of a generation ago oohed and ahed.
But let us not become jaded. Recall that giving Medicare beneficiaries a prescription drug plan was talked about for decades, and then Congress in 2003 went and passed the Medicare Modernization Act and suddenly all the talk is of doughnut holes and enrollment deadlines.
That same MMA gave birth to the bipartisan Citizens' Health Care Working Group to encourage Americans "to engage in an informed national public debate to make choices about the services they want covered, what health care coverage they want, and how they are willing to pay for coverage," according to Section 1014 of the act.
The public has until Aug. 31 to comment on six interim recommendations that the group unveiled on June 1, including Recommendation 2: "Define a 'core' benefit package for all Americans." (To read Recommendation 2 in its entirety, see "Federal Panel's Rationale for a Standard Benefit.")
We've been here before.
"Memories are short in these United States, or folks would remember that a standard benefit package was at the core of the so-called Jackson Hole plan for managed competition," says Uwe Reinhardt, PhD, James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton. "The Clinton plan was essentially the Jackson Hole plan, with much additional regulatory baggage hitched to it — for instance a complete revamping of medical school education and graduate medical education in the United States. But it, too, had a standard benefit package."
William W. McGuire, MD, the CEO of UnitedHealth Group which, with about 70 million enrollees is the nation's largest health insurer, made a few remarks about this at a May 1 meeting of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
"My personal belief is that we should have all people covered under a basic or essential benefit program — that the employers would fund that if the people are employed," McGuire said. "If they are not employed, then state or federal governments would do that or there would be a combination of the two. The key to that is not just passing any mandate that says everybody has to have it, but we have to define it."
Even though the Citizens' Health Care Working Group's target year for installing a core benefit is 2012, and even though many experts doubt that much will come out of this effort anyway, health plan officials can be sure of two things: There will be a discussion, and managed care has a stake in how that discussion develops. Oh, yes. When the hot air lifts there's a chance that the United States may indeed have a standard benefit in place — if not through the working group's efforts, then by a combination of public or private action. (See "Standard Benefit Pushed Along Many Fronts.")
"I think there are a lot of other targeted efforts that are going to take place to address the uninsured issue through the tax code or through other mechanisms in public-private programs," says Mohit Ghose, a spokesman for America's Health Insurance Plans. "As we see more states trying to figure out how to deal with their health insurance issues, there is a growing recognition that we need targeted solutions."
Richard G. Stefanacci, DO, the founding executive director of the Health Policy Institute at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, prefers the term universal minimum benefit and says we've seen something like it before. (For more on defining terms in this debate, see "Before We Begin . . .".)
"Medicare to some degree provides a universal minimum benefit, although the exact benefit package covered is difficult to define with terms like 'medically necessary' — which remain undefined — used to describe the extent of coverage," says Stefanacci. Despite all the talk of providing a safety net for the uninsured, Stefanacci doubts that such a benefit, whatever it is called, will be given freely.
"Medicare is not given to every American over the age of 65," he says. "Instead, parts of Medicare, such as B and D, require sizable monthly premiums, which in the case of Medicare Part B, will come close to $100 per month next year."
Still, a standard benefit package is alluring, says Reinhardt. "First, it makes possible head-to-head competition among insurers on the basis of premium, which is one reason insurers don't like it; no one really likes to compete for a living. But it also simplifies life for the insured, who don't have to worry incessantly about the fine print in insurance policies."
Someday, there will be a standard benefit package, Reinhardt believes. "It will be lean, at least initially, and may well include a substantial — possibly means-tested — deductible. But first we must wander for about a decade through the consumer-directed health care jungle, with free-for-all insurance products 'tailored to the consumers' needs.' In fact, of course, these policies are intended to increasingly segment the insurance market. My hunch is that the rest of the world won't do this and that Americans will eventually become thoroughly disenchanted with this insurance jungle and the disappointments, regrets, and litigation it will trigger. But we must go through that phase."
He is reminded of something Winston Churchill once said. "The Americans will always do the right thing ... after they've exhausted all the alternatives."
However, as McGuire puts it, we will first have to define "it."
There are some things that a standard benefit needs to include, says Jaan Sidorov, MD, medical director of care coordination at Geisinger Health Plan. "At a minimum, the adult core should have coverage for high-dollar claims. I'd define it by dollar amount and include location of care — hospital, outpatient facility — and medical necessity. And I'd have a painful — maybe means-tested — tiered deductible. I'd think of it as insurance against the kind of indemnity that could bankrupt you next year if you rolled your SUV this year, not insurance that pays for all that is medically necessary.
"So, while mammograms, immunizations, BP checks, lipid control, care of diabetes, and check-ups are important, I'd leave these to the commercial insurance market. I'd also make the adult core package so minimalist that folks would not depend on it for anything other than a minimum coverage and hopefully realize they need, and have reason to buy, more insurance."
Margaret E. O'Kane, president of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, doesn't like the sound of that. "This highlights the difficulty that will come when trying to come to consensus," says O'Kane. "Fundamentally, the NCQA believes that the purpose of the program must be to protect consumers and provide a base-level minimum standard of covered care. Guaranteed coverage of basic health protections such as BP checks, lipid control, care of diabetes ,and medical check-ups would prevent many of the high-dollar claims associated with hospitalizations, heart disease, complications from diabetes, and the lack of primary care."
Paul Fronstin, the director of the health research and education program at the Employee Benefit Research Institute, thinks that no matter what the standard benefit eventually looks like, health plans will have a strong role to play in its creation. "They conduct technology assessments in order to determine what health care services they will cover. The evidence base that they have developed could play a vital role in shaping a standard benefit package that is backed by a cost-benefit analysis."
Fronstin adds that defining the standard "will be very political. There will be lots of posturing to get certain people on the commission to push for the inclusion of various benefits. There is a dual role for consumerism though. A standard benefits plan could still have relatively high — relative to today — cost sharing."
Sidorov believes that health plans will play a huge role in guiding a standard benefit package through the federal regulatory process, just as insurers guide their Medicare Advantage plans.
"The trick would be to do it in a way that no one plan is left with an excess of persons at higher risk and allow them to price it so that there is a reasonable margin," says Sidorov. "I suppose in some states, where the Blues are the insurer of last resort, they could be 'encouraged' to lead the way."
J.P. Wieske, the director of state affairs for the Council for Affordable Health Insurance, an advocate for association health plans and health savings accounts, wants to know more. "Are we talking about a bare-bones style plan with significant cost sharing allowing individuals or businesses to choose a 'basic plan' and increase coverage through additional riders? Are we talking about minimum benefit standards, for instance all plans must cover emergency care, diabetes? Are we talking about a reinsurance approach where the government covers certain costs?"
Then, there's the problem of those who would need more than bare-bones coverage. "What do we do with individuals who choose not to purchase additional coverage that may be required above this minimum? It seems to me this will unavoidably lead to even more government intervention."
Still, judging from a May 22 letter sent by Karen Ignagni, the AHIP's president and CEO, to the Citizens' Health Care Working Group, there are already broad points of agreement. Basing any standard benefit on evidence-based medicine seems to be a universal goal.
For instance, Ignagni writes: "Programs that reward quality performance should promote medical practice that is based on scientific evidence...."
Recommendation 2 states: "Core benefits will be specified by taking into account evidence-based science and expert consensus regarding the medical effectiveness of treatments."
O'Kane, at the NCQA, also believes that any bare-bones benefit should at least include preventive care and management of chronic conditions. OK. But how much preventive care? How diligent the management of chronic conditions?
"I support the concept of a standard benefit," says O'Kane. "I believe the benefits need to be standardized because otherwise insurers and employers play games with risk selection. But it depends on what's in the standard set of benefits."
Of course, just what sort of input the NCQA will have in this discussion remains to be seen. When O'Kane spoke to Managed Care, NCQA officials had not yet presented any testimony to the Citizens' Health Care Working Group. O'Kane says she plans to send the panel a letter outlining the NCQA's concerns.
The AHIP, meanwhile, places an emphasis on transparency and evaluation of physician performance that doesn't appear in the working group's interim recommendations. Further, AHIP officials want to emphasize emphatically that the idea of a standard benefit holds no appeal for them.
"We have never supported just defining a one-size-fits-all core benefit," says Ghose. "We've always believed in flexibility in the marketplace." Health plans aren't the only ones skeptical of the idea, says Wieske. Consumers have shown little interest.
"Broadly, states have attempted to design 'basic' and 'standard' plans which have done little to attract consumer interest," says Wieske, one author of a recent study that says that state mandates typically boost the cost of health coverage between 20 percent to 50 percent. "Either the benefit levels do not meet consumer expectations, or the plans are too expensive. Massachusetts required standardized benefit plans in the individual market, allowing only two indemnity plans, two PPO plans, and two HMO plans. The new so-called 'reform' of the Massachusetts market rolls back that approach. The net result is we have a series of state-designed benefit plans very few people choose to buy. It is probably unrealistic to think the federal government — with or without a citizens' panel — will design a successful benefit package people will buy."
Next, we come to employers. Helen Darling, president of the National Business Group on Health, is somewhat dismissive of the effort by the Citizens' Health Care Working Group, even though she made a presentation to the panel.
"They invited everybody to come in and say what they thought," says Darling. "That doesn't count for anything in my mind. It's very easy to hold meetings and invite people in and have them tell you what they want. What you're doing is creating a Christmas tree of ornaments with special requests by different interest groups. Those requests go into a report written by people who have no fiscal accountability for what they're requesting."They don't have to own it. They don't have to raise money for it. They don't have to deal with complex issues such as: We can't afford all of those things so how are we going to prioritize? I don't have any confidence that asking for different benefits will make a difference if the financing method isn't included in the decisions. If a report is written by a commission or another group that does not have to raise the money and go to the taxpayers to pay for the recommendations, then the report is not likely to have an impact. Those who have to be accountable — the Congress — have to be at the table."
The working group's interim report includes this: "The opinion polls we examined, the community meetings we held, and the Web-based surveys and comments we received all showed large majorities willing to make additional financial investments in the service of expanding the protection against the costs of illness and the expansion of access to quality care."
"They always say that," she says, "but they don't vote that way when they have a vote. They don't agree to actually pay for coverage for other people who are uninsured."
Darling recalls that the budget surplus for fiscal 2000 was $236 billion and that forecasters estimated that surpluses for the next decade would come to $5.6 trillion. As the good times rolled and it appeared that they would continue to roll, what was done to fix health care? "Everybody felt that the country was at its economic financial high point during the bubble economy," she says. "Even then, the most we did was expand very modestly the state child health insurance programs. We were in the best position we could ever be in to cover people. Every American could say 'I got my McMansion, I got my SUV, my kids have more than they need. I don't mind giving $5 a month to cover the uninsured.' Well, they didn't do it. Didn't happen. So I'm not at all optimistic that we're going to have sweeping reform."
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Kevin Durant, LeBron James lead 2013-14 All-NBA First Team; 5 players receive first ever All-NBA nod
The NBA announced its 2013-14 All-NBA teams on Wednesday afternoon, with newly minted Most Valuable Player Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder ranking as the lone unanimous selection to the First Team, as MVP runner-up and Miami Heat star LeBron James finished one vote shy of joining him in earning that distinction.
A panel of 125 broadcasters and sportswriters voted for the top three All-NBA teams, with two forwards, two guards and one center each getting five points for a first-team vote, three points for a second-team vote and one point for a third-team vote. Durant got a maximum possible 625 points after averaging career highs in points (32 points per game, good for his fourth scoring title) and assists (5.5 assists), joining Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor as just the fourth player ever to average 32-7-5 over the course of a full season. James appeared on 124 out of 125 ballots after finishing third in the league in scoring, 10th in assists and fourth in field-goal percentage, shooting a career-high 56.7 percent, making this the seventh straight season in which he's improved his accuracy. (You can check out the full voting results here, if you'd like.)
Here's how the balloting for all three All-NBA teams shook out:
First Team
• F: Durant (fifth first-team selection)
• F: James (eighth)
• C: Joakim Noah, Chicago Bulls (first)
• G: Chris Paul, Los Angeles Clippers (fourth)
• G: James Harden, Houston Rockets (first)
Second Team
• F: Blake Griffin, Clippers
• F: Kevin Love, Minnesota Timberwolves
• C: Dwight Howard, Rockets
• G: Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors
• G: Tony Parker, San Antonio Spurs
Third Team
• F: Paul George, Indiana Pacers
• F: LaMarcus Aldridge. Portland Trail Blazers
• C: Al Jefferson, Charlotte Bobcats/Hornets
• G: Goran Dragic, Phoenix Suns
• G: Damian Lillard, Blazers
Paul received his sixth All-NBA nod, and his fourth first-team berth, after leading the NBA in assists (10.7) and steals (2.48) per game, while also averaging 19.1 points and 4.3 rebounds, and finishing sixth in the NBA in Player Efficiency Rating. First-team recognition is the second nicest thing he's received of late.
This marks the first ever All-NBA selection for Noah, who was named the league's 2013-14 Defensive Player of the Year and the leading vote-getter on the All-Defensive Team, and averaged a career-high 5.4 assists per game to become the first center in a decade (and just the sixth ever) to dish it at that level. It's the second straight All-NBA berth, and first first-team selection, for Harden, who finished fifth in the league in scoring at 25.4 points per game, averaged a career-best 6.1 assists per contest, and was one of only two players (alongside James) to put up 25-6-4 a night this season.
Among second- and third-teamers, Howard makes his eighth All-NBA appearance, Parker his fourth, Griffin his third, while it's the second time around for Love, George and Aldridge, and a career first for Curry, Jefferson, Dragic and Lillard.
As Grantland's Zach Lowe has reported, the results bring a financial boon for the Pacers' George, the value of whose max contract now rises from 25 percent of the salary cap to 27 percent, and Noah, who gets an extra $500,000 for making first team. (The Bulls still appear to have managed to avoid the luxury tax line, though, which means this works out nicely for both sides.)
While the teams as laid out here seem pretty sound, one result many have quibbled with on Wednesday is Harden landing one of the first-team guard spots over Curry, who led the NBA in 3-pointers made and attempted for the second straight year, who finished seventh in the league in points per game and fifth in assists per game, and who — while not exactly a stalwart defender — wasn't quite the disinterested defensive disaster that Harden was this season. This is a reasonable argument, although I have a slightly harder time getting exercised about a "snub" when Curry still made the top 15 (and, really, top 10, and top four guards).
One name you don't see on that top 15? Russell Westbrook. The 25-year-old Thunder point guard had appeared on the All-NBA second team in each of the last three seasons, finished the season eighth in the league in PER and averaged just below 22 points, seven assists, six rebounds and two steals per game for the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference. Westbrook, it seems, found his exclusion humorous:
Russell Westbrook laughs at your All-NBA Team selections - pic.twitter.com/m5o0tychbF
— Darnell Mayberry (@DarnellMayberry) June 4, 2014
I guess someone reminded him that he missed 36 games due to multiple knee surgeries and played a career-low 1,412 minutes, because he deleted that tweet pretty quickly after posting it. Westbrook backers might note that the Clippers' Paul made first team despite also missing a significant chunk of the season due to a shoulder injury; that's true, but CP3 played in 16 more games, spent 759 more minutes on the floor and was the most productive point guard in the league on a per-minute basis, which makes his selection a lot easier to support. Here's hoping Westbrook stays healthy enough next season to get back on the board.
Your five nearest misses on the All-NBA teams:
• Carmelo Anthony, New York Knicks: Received one first-team vote and tallied 86 total points after finishing second in the league in scoring (27.4 points per game) and ninth in PER on a 37-win Knicks team that finished a game out of the playoffs;
• John Wall, Washington Wizards:, Received 70 total points after leading the NBA in assists and posting top-10 finishes in minutes played (fifth), total steals (sixth), assists (second) and steals (eighth) per game, and scoring a career-high 19.3 points per contest for a Wizards squad that made the second round of the playoffs for the first time in nine years;
• Tim Duncan, Spurs: One first-team vote, 63 total points after finishing in the top 10 in both rebounding and block percentage while anchoring the No. 4-ranked defense in points allowed per possession and chipping in 15.1 points and three assists per game;
• DeMar DeRozan, Toronto Raptors: Received 56 total points after top-10 finishes in minutes (third), free throws made (fourth) and attempted (sixth), total points (eighth) and points per game (10th) to help lead the Raptors to their first Atlantic Division title since 2006-07;
• Anthony Davis, New Orleans Pelicans: Received one first-team vote and 40 total points after finishing fourth in PER, first in blocks per game and block percentage, and being one of only five players to average at least 20 points and 10 rebounds this season and one of only three since 1946-47 to do so in his age-20 season.
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Holger Staude, an economics major from Frankfurt, Germany, will be the valedictorian for Princeton's class of 2009, and Stephen Hammer, a classics major from Carrollton, Texas, will be the Latin salutatorian.
The faculty accepted the nominations of the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing at its April 27 meeting.
Staude has the highest grade point average in his class, and he has the greatest number of A+ and A grades. In addition to his concentration in economics, he is pursuing three certificates: in finance, in musical performance (piano) and in environmental studies. He will deliver the valedictory address at Princeton's Commencement ceremony on Tuesday, June 2.
Hammer stands fourth in the class of 2009. Earlier this year, he was one of 32 American college students selected to receive Rhodes Scholarships to study at the University of Oxford next year. He will deliver the traditional salutatory oration in Latin at Commencement.
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One deer coaxed off ice; second deer captured, taken to animal hospital
In a scene that could have pulled been straight from Disney's classic "Bambi," crews in Waltham rescued two deer that were stranded on the ice Friday.
Massachusetts Environmental Police, Waltham fire and the Animal Rescue League were called to rescue a deer on Stoney Brook Basin. A short time later, a second stranded deer was spotted on the Cambridge Reservoir.
Images: Stranded deer rescued from ice
Crews managed to coax the first deer off the ice, but the second deer was still stranded.
From Sky 5, rescuers wearing cold weather wet suits with inflatable rafts could be seen carefully making their way out across the ice to the animal. The animal repeatedly tried to flee its rescuers, but fell after its spindly legs and hooves could not gain traction on the ice.
"If you rush at them too quickly, it actually makes things worse. The animal may get excited, break limbs, and that's not good either. So we have to take our time," said Waltham Deputy Fire Chief Roger Hebert.
As the deer kicked and thrashed wildly on the ice, the team was able to capture it, subdue it and haul it back to land.
The animal was loaded into a truck for an evaluation at Tufts in Grafton. Unfortunately, the doe had be euthanized.
Fire officials said they try to rescue the stranded animals because they fear if they don't, a Good Samaritan may try and get hurt or fall in.


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Australian BDM certificates & saving money
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Australians refer to Births, Deaths and Marriages (or BDM) – in alphabetical order. In UK these are described as BMD (in chronological order) while most Northern Americans refer to Vital Statistics.
I've been writing a course on Australian Births, Deaths and Marriages for the National Institute of Genealogical Studies. In Australia births, deaths and marriages are managed separately by each state or territory. While these have some common history there are also differences in the records and indexes available. (Links to the various BDM Registries can be found here.)
The following are some tips for saving money, while searching Australian BDM:
- Check whether a family member already has a copy of the certificate you want.
- Most states' and territories' Registry BDM indexes online are free to search, although Victoria's cost & some regions don't have online indexes.
- Most states and territories have BDM indexes on CDROMs that can be searched freely at libraries and genealogical societies.
- Ancestry.com is available to use freely at many libraries, genealogical societies & Family History Centers, so you do not need a personal subscription to check the combined 'Australian Birth, Marriage and Death Index'.
- Cross-check details as much as possible before ordering, to minimise wrongly ordered certificates.
- Check holdings of genealogical societies – someone else might have deposited a copy of the certificate you want.
- Check the Australasia Births, Deaths & Marriages Exchange in case someone else has the certificate you want.
- Certificates are often cheaper if you can provide the name, year and registration numbers (and sometimes registration districts) – so check an index first and write down ALL the details.
- For New South Wales (NSW) and Tasmania, many 19th century church records are microfilmed & you may be able to see them at a genealogical society or library and write down the details yourself.
- For NSW transcriptions are cheaper than full certificates. Obtain these from Marilyn Rowan, Joy Murrin or Laurie Turtle. Early Church Records transcriptions are cheaper than civil certificate transcriptions.
- In South Australia transcriptions can sometimes be obtained free from the public libraries that hold District Registers. Note that each library can only provide transcriptions of one district, not others. Some libraries charge for this service and some offer it free. (eg Unley Library holds Adelaide District Register ONLY and will copy for researchers who live too far from the library to visit.)
- South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society (SAGHS) offers transcriptions of all districts of historic South Australian certificates.
- For Victoria, historical images of certificates (downloaded immediately as PDF files) are cheaper than certified printed copies of certificates (posted to you).
- Search Queensland BDM indexes online for free and order online the historical image of a certificate more cheaply than a certified historical certificate here.
Entry filed under: Births, Research techniques. Tags: BDM, Births Deaths & Marriages, indexes, National Institute of Genealogical Studies, NIGS, South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society, transcriptions, Unley Library.
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Good advice, Kerry. Another point worth noting is that certificates are sometimes available in Archives sources. For example, from about the mid-1890s onwards, Supreme Court probate files at Queensland State Archives usually contain a death certificate, which can be photocopied for about $1. I have seen birth, marriage and death certificates (including some from interstate and overseas) in many different record series at State Archives. More details are in a Queensland Genealogy blog post.
Hi Kerry,
Were your Scriven family from Croydon, Surrey at all?
[…] See also my blog post on BDM certificates & saving money […]
Some great tips here Kerry. I am very interested in the Births, Deaths and Marriages exchange. Think I will go and register now.
Thank you
Can I link this blog post to my recent post?
Kerry, Queensland now also has a download service which is cheaper than a certified certificate.
DON'T pay the Victorian 99c search fee!! After I had spent about $60 doing this, I found all the indexes were available on CD Rom in my local library.
[…] Australian BDM certificates and saving money Australian BDM certificates aren't cheap – that is a fact, and while this post is actually a couple of years old, it was referred to recently and is still valid, so is worth a mention here. In it, Kerry has done a great job of compiling together 14 great ways to save money on Australian BDM certificates. Read the full story … […]
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