White House Tips Off on Health Portion of State of the Union Address

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WASHINGTON, At The Health and Human Capital
Management Congress today, Special Assistant to President George W. Ramthun pointed out President Bush's concern over electronic medical
records, pointing out that many of the displaced Katrina victims had their
medical records swept away with no hope of recovering them, yet they still
need treatment in other parts of the country where they now reside.

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Ramthun was on also included George Bennett,
Chairman and CEO of Health Dialog, and Harold (Hank) Gardner, MD, President,
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In this role, he actively promoted the
Treasury's implementation of Health Savings Accounts and the Health Coverage
Tax Credit (HCTC) program.

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Mr. The President would also like
to modernize Medicare and Medicaid, a system that Mr.D.

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medical records would have helped this problem, as they have with veterans,
since the Department of Veterans Affairs uses an electronic medical record
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Ramthun outlined various areas of interest to the
administration, including the high price of health care in the United States,
the uninsured, unfair tax benefits, the need for electronic medical records ,
Health Savings Accounts, liability reform, association health plans, the
modernization of Medicare and Medicaid and how health care will be a sizeable
portion of the President's budget. Mr. Metanexus leads and
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Ramthun continued to discuss the economics
of health care in the United States, and explained how the President would
like to see tax reform to help even out tax benefits among those who have a
corporate health insurance plan and those who pay for their own health
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Ramthun provided insight into a major portion of the President 's State of the
Union address next week.
The current political issues of liability reform and association health
plans, which have been passed by the House of Representatives but not by the
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The Spiritual Capital Research Program seeks to integrate the concept of
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The speech outlined how health care in the US is currently 16 percent of
the gross national product, or two trillion dollars per year and how rising
health care costs to US employers have begun to impede employee raises and
therefore standard of living. Ramthun is the senior
health policy advisor to the President regarding health care issues involving
Medicare, Medicaid, and the Internal Revenue Code.
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Before joining the
President's staff, Mr. Ramthun was the Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the
Treasury for health initiatives. Grants of $150,000
per project are made possible by generous funding from the John Templeton
Foundation. Projects include the Local
Societies Initiative, the Templeton Research Lectures, and topical
interdisciplinary research projects such as the Spiritual Transformation
Scientific Research Program, Spiritual Capital Research Program, Foundational
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Call for Proposals for $150 000 Research Projects on `Spiritual Capital' Issued by Metanexus Institute

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