December 2009 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

Patient Safety at Ten: Unmistakable Progress, Troubling Gaps

Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine released To Err Is Human, a much-discussed report that launched the modern patient-safety movement. Evaluating what has been accomplished in a Health Affairs Web First article published yesterday, Robert Wachter...

Published Wed, Dec 02 2009 1:11 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health IT, Patient Safety

There Be Dragons: The Fiscal Risk Of Premium Subsidies In Health Reform

Last week, the Congressional Budget Office weighed in on the biggest economic imponderable in the health care debate: how private health insurance premiums will behave under health reform. Building on its December 2008 CBO health insurance market analysis...

Published Wed, Dec 09 2009 3:12 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Medicare, Medicaid

Health IT: What We Can Learn From Toys ‘R’ Us

One of the more interesting recent health policy events took place at the Brookings Institution’s Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform. The December 2nd event did not focus on the reform bills in the House and Senate or the horse trading and sausage...

Published Wed, Dec 16 2009 10:29 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Health IT, Health Care Costs

Would Reform Bills Control Costs? A Response To Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande, MD, is one of the best medical writers of our time. I subscribed to the New Yorker just so I could read him. I reached eagerly for my Dec. 14, 2009 New Yorker when I heard he had an article there. I was deeply disappointed. What worries...

Published Tue, Dec 22 2009 5:27 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Health Care Costs, Competition

Cadillacs Or Ambulances? The Senate Tax On ‘Excessive’ Benefits

Editor’s Note: For more on the controversy over taxing high-cost health plans, see “Taxing Cadillac Health Plans May Produce Chevy Results,” a Health Affairs Web First article by Jon Gabel and coauthors published today. The Senate “Patient...

Published Thu, Dec 03 2009 12:50 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Coverage, Health Law

An Interview With Thomas Russell

Editor’s Note: Below is the transcript of a recent interview of Thomas Russell, who is stepping down on January 1 after ten years as executive director of the American College of Surgeons, by John Iglehart, Founding Editor of Health Affairs. In...

Published Mon, Dec 07 2009 12:10 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Malpractice Liability Reform, Payment, Physicians, Medicare, Workforce, Hospitals

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