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Implementing Health Reform: Preventive Services
Editor’s Note: Earlier posts by Timothy Jost provide analyses of regulations implementing provisions of the new health reform legislation governing a patient bill of rights, grandfathered plans, tax exempt hospitals, the small employer tax credit, the...
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Thu, Jul 15 2010 8:48 AM
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Medicare Innovation: Whose Priorities, Whose Interests?
Editor’s Note: In addition to Carol Levine (photo and bio above), authors of this post include Eric Coleman, Professor in the Division of Health Care Policy and Research, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine; and Mary Naylor, Director...
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Wed, Jul 14 2010 12:47 PM
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Meaningful Use And EHR Standards: The Final Rule
Editor’s Note: For more on electronic health records and meaningul use requirements, see the April issue of Health Affairs, “Health IT: The Road To ‘Meaningful Use’“. This morning, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
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Tue, Jul 13 2010 2:05 PM
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What Will Happen To Emergency Room Traffic?
One of the most oft-repeated arguments for health reform is that uninsured patients make costly and delayed trips to the ER when they do not have a health plan that pays for care at physicians’ offices. Insure the uninsured, it is said, and they will...
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Mon, Jul 12 2010 9:07 AM
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Court Voids Federal Rejection Of Health Benefits For Same-Sex Spouses
Portions of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages, are unconstitutional, Judge Joseph Tauro of the United States District Court in Boston ruled in two cases yesterday. The cases...
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Fri, Jul 09 2010 1:50 PM
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Will More Insurers Control Health Care Costs Better?
A common theme among health reformers has been that the small-group and individual markets for health insurance are too concentrated and thus inadequately competitive. The proposed remedy is to have more independent insurers compete within local markets...
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Fri, Jul 09 2010 10:38 AM
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July Health Affairs: The Impact Of Health Reform
The new health reform law charges the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with testing new payment and delivery models intended to improve health outcomes and restrain costs. But as the July issue of Health Affairs, published yesterday...
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Thu, Jul 08 2010 8:54 AM
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Berwick To Head CMS Without Senate Confirmation
President Obama will bypass the Senate and use a recess appointment today to install Don Berwick as head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Such an appointment, made while the Senate is not in session, will enable Berwick to assume the...
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Wed, Jul 07 2010 6:25 AM
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Health Affairs Blog Most-Read Posts For June
Posts on accountable care organizations, implementing health reform, and consumer resistance to evidence-based care topped the list of Health Affairs Blog most-read posts for June. The full list is below. An Accountable Care Organization Reading List...
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Tue, Jul 06 2010 2:24 PM
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Obesity Prevention: A Responsive Communitarian Approach (Part 2)
Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a two-part post by Amitai Etzioni examining the nation’s anti-obesity policies through the lens of a responsive communitarian philosophy. Yesterday, Etzioni laid out a responsive communitarian framework...
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Fri, Jul 02 2010 7:57 AM
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Rep. Burgess Gives Physicians’ Take on New Health Care Law
Texas Republican Rep. Michael Burgess took a strong stand on the new health care reform law yesterday morning, arguing that opponents must stop its implementation by targeting its funding. He also predicted that there would not be a permanent fix to the...
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Thu, Jul 01 2010 10:17 AM
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Obesity Prevention: A Responsive Communitarian Approach (Part 1)
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of a two-part post by Amitai Etzioni examining the nation’s anti-obesity policies through the lens of a responsive communitarian philosophy. Today, Etzioni lays out a responsive communitarian framework...
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Thu, Jul 01 2010 7:13 AM
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