March 2010 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

Shock Me, Tube Me, Line Me: An ER Doc Reassesses DNRs

“In Shock Me, Tube Me, Line Me,” a Narrative Matters essay in the February 2010 issue of Health Affairs, emergency physician Boris Veysman sets forth his own version of an advance directive and challenges common perceptions about care at the end of life...

Published Tue, Mar 09 2010 3:13 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Physicians, Bioethics, Personal Experience, End-of-Life Care

Three Cheers For Individual Health Insurance

The most significant and most radical change to the health care system that President Obama is proposing is to virtually eliminate the market for individual insurance and replace it with a highly-regulated health insurance exchange. But why would anyone...

Published Mon, Mar 15 2010 9:47 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Competition

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...

Published Wed, Mar 24 2010 12:06 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Coverage, Medicaid

A Pilot Program For Overweight Children Yields Results

An article published earlier this week by Health Affairs discusses a new approach to managing child obesity that supports the delivery of so-called secondary care — referral-based specialized visits — by primary care teams within community...

Published Thu, Mar 04 2010 5:43 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Prevention, Primary Care, Children, Obesity

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...

Published Tue, Mar 16 2010 1:42 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, States, Spending, Medicaid

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...

Published Thu, Mar 18 2010 2:03 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog

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...

Published Tue, Mar 23 2010 7:25 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Insurance, Medicare, Competition, Hospitals

Study Showing Rise In Snacking By Children Generates Discussion

Children in the United States snack almost three times a day on salty chips, candy, and other junk food, according to one of the first studies to look at long-term eating patterns in children. The increase in snacking—which now accounts for more than...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2010 4:36 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Prevention, Chronic Care, Children, Obesity

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...

Published Mon, Mar 29 2010 11:24 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Spending

Lessons From The Health Care Summit

Many journalists have called and asked me what I have learned from watching the much heralded Health Care Summit at Blair House. Actually quite a bit, as the discourse there crystallized so clearly the ideological division that makes coherent and comprehensive...

Published Mon, Mar 01 2010 7:54 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Health Care Costs, Medicare

Rising Individual Market Premiums: Two Competing Narratives

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. This dramatic and unprecedented...

Published Fri, Mar 12 2010 10:29 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Politics, Insurance

A Consumer Advocacy Group Refutes The Anti-Health Reform Myths

At long last, health reform legislation appears headed for a series of final votes in the next few weeks. The ultimate outcome in treacherous political waters is uncertain. What should happen, from the perspective of a consumer advocacy organization,...

Published Tue, Mar 16 2010 7:35 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Public Opinion, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare

Death Of A Sales Job (A Three Act Ploy)

With apologies to Arthur Miller … President Obama went back before the cameras again Wednesday, providing yet another recycling of fading rationales for his health reform product that more voters would rather leave on the Capitol Hill store shelves...

Published Fri, Mar 05 2010 9:15 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Politics, Insurance, Public Opinion, Malpractice Liability Reform, Competition, Coverage, Medicaid

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”...

Published Thu, Mar 18 2010 8:04 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Politics, Spending

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...

Published Sun, Mar 21 2010 1:51 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Health Law

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