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Monday, March 12, 2012

Health Care

News                                                                                                                             
National Journal | White House Asks Advocates About Health Care Law Push
White House officials met this week with health reform advocates from more than 60 organizations to help coordinate plans for news conferences, prayer vigils and other staged events to coincide with Supreme Court oral arguments on challenges to the 2010 health reform law, the New York Times reported on Friday.

Econ Comments & Analysis                                                                                            
WSJ | Coffee Is an Essential Benefit Too
Can you believe the nerve of employers? Many of them still seem to think that they should be allowed to determine the benefits they offer.

Blogs                                                                                                                             
Atlantic | The Myth of the Free-Market American Health Care System
Indeed, there are a lot of misconceptions about how America's health-care system compares to those of the other developed countries, including France
Atlantic | Why Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion Will Reduce Health Care Access
Chapin White of the Center for Studying Health System Change has published an important new paper in Health Services Research, a journal of health economics, which suggests that a critical part of the Affordable Care Act--its expansion of Medicaid coverage to 16 million more Americans--may actually reduce those individuals' access to health care.