March 2010 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

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

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

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...

Published Fri, Mar 19 2010 11:11 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Payment, Physicians, Spending, Medicare, Coverage, Pharma, Medicaid, Health Law

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...

Published Tue, Mar 30 2010 11:48 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Health Care Costs, Spending, Quality, Comparative Effectiveness, Technology, Effectiveness

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...

Published Wed, Mar 24 2010 3:01 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Public Health, Children, Obesity

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...

Published Wed, Mar 17 2010 10:13 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Insurance, States, Innovation

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

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

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

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

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

HA Blog Top Ten For February

Posts on health reform dominate the ten most-read Health Affairs Blog posts for February. Also on the list are reports on health spending and an innovative way to supplement the primary care workforce: Health Reform: The Need To Move Forward by Henry...

Published Thu, Mar 04 2010 8:03 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform

Fighting Child Obesity: States Lead The Way

Editor’s Note: The March issue of Health Affairs is a thematic issue focusing on the child obesity epidemic and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Two days after the issue and an accompanying series of policy briefs was released at...

Published Mon, Mar 15 2010 3:08 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Chronic Care, States, Children, Obesity

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...

Published Sun, Mar 28 2010 6:01 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Quality

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...

Published Tue, Mar 16 2010 5:49 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Blog, GrantWatch

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