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Moving Toward a Robust Comparative Effectiveness Research Enterprise
Editor’s Note: Most health policy analysts believe that better evidence about quality and value, obtained through comparative effectiveness research (CER), can drive better clinical decision making and could potentially slow the rate of growth in health...
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Eight Rules From The Heart Of Power: How Did Obama Do?
Last fall, David Blumenthal and James Marone published a timely history of the presidential handling of health reform from Theodore Roosevelt onward, called The Heart of Power (see my review in Health Affairs). At the end of the book, they offered eight...
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Mon, Mar 29 2010 11:24 AM
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CMS Nominee Berwick On Empowering Patients And Improving Quality
Don Berwick, President Obama’s reported nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has been a leading voice for improving clinical quality and empowering patients, themes he has discussed in the pages of Health Affairs. Patient-Centered...
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Does Displaying Calorie Counts Lead To Healthier Eating?
One of the lesser-known provisions of the newly passed health reform legislation will require restaurant chains to post calorie counts on menus and drive-through signs. Will people consume fewer calories as a result? Here’s what Brian Elbel and...
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Wed, Mar 24 2010 3:01 PM
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How Would Health Reform Affect The Uninsured?
In an appearance on the PBS NewsHour last night, Health Affairs Editor in Chief Susan Dentzer broke down the composition of America’s uninsured population and discussed how health reform is expected to extend coverage to 32 million uninsured people...
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Wed, Mar 24 2010 12:06 PM
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Health Reform Is Here: What Happens Now?
Now that the President has signed health reform legislation, what happens next? Health Affairs editor-in-chief Susan Dentzer addressed that question in an appearance last night on the PBS NewsHour. In an interview with Jeffrey Brown, Dentzer discussed...
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Tue, Mar 23 2010 1:51 PM
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Private-Payer Hospital Profits Can Lead To Negative Medicare Margins
In an article published March 18 by Health Affairs, researchers at the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission challenge a common assumption about Medicare patients and hospital profit margins. The study finds that hospitals with strong market power lose...
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Tue, Mar 23 2010 7:25 AM
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Abortion Agreement Clears Way For Health Reform
The passage of health reform legislation, which once seemed inevitable, then seemed far less likely with the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts, now seems close to inevitable again. By agreeing to issue an executive order continuing current policy...
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Sun, Mar 21 2010 1:51 PM
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All High-Risk Pools Are Not Equal: Examining The Minnesota Model
As House Democrats are attempting to move a health reform bill forward this week, it is worth noting that at least one part of the plan before Congress has support from Republicans, many Democrats in the House and Senate, and President Obama: high-risk...
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Fri, Mar 19 2010 3:36 PM
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The Health Care Reform Reconciliation Bill
The House began its last step in the health reform legislative process early in the afternoon of Thursday, March 18, when it released HR 4872, the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010. As this year’s health reform legislation...
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Fri, Mar 19 2010 11:11 AM
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New Health Wonk Review Is Up
It’s March Madness, and over at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s blog, “The Users’ Guide to the Health Reform Galaxy,” Minna Jung serves up the madness of both the basketball court and the health care reform process in...
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Thu, Mar 18 2010 2:03 PM
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CBO Gives Democrats Good News On Health Reform
Breaking news this morning provides some cheer for Democrats on health reform. The Congressional Budget Office reportedly will release this afternoon an analysis of the Senate-passed health reform bill as modified by a separate “reconciliation”...
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Thu, Mar 18 2010 8:04 AM
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Individual Market Premium Increases: The Debate Continues
Editor’s Note: Anthem Blue Cross of California, the largest health insurance company in California, recently announced plans to increase insurance premiums by as much as 39 percent for people insured in their non-group health insurance plans. There...
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Wed, Mar 17 2010 10:13 AM
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Welcome to the Health Affairs GrantWatch Blog!
Since 1987, Health Affairs has published news and insights into health care and health policy philanthropy in its ongoing journal section called GrantWatch. Now GrantWatch has moved to the blogosphere. The GrantWatch Blog will feature news and updates...
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Tue, Mar 16 2010 5:49 PM
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Can Health Care Investments Stimulate the Economy?
Editor’s Note: In addition to Dr. Leighton Ku (photo and bio above), the authors of this post include Dr. Peter Shin, an Associate Research Professor and Director of the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy at the George Washington University...
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