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State Of The Union: Let’s Be Honest For A Change
Editor’s Note: Below, Len Nichols, Professor of Health Policy and Director of the Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics at George Mason University, discusses President Obama’s State of the Union address and House Budget Committee chairman...
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Wed, Jan 26 2011 6:51 AM
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Health Care And The State Of The Union
Below, Kavita Patel, former director of policy for the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, discusses President Obama’s State of the Union address and House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) Republican response...
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Wed, Jan 26 2011 1:05 PM
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Fact Vs. Fiction In Advance Care Planning, Take Two
For the second time, a proposal to pay health care providers to counsel Medicare beneficiaries on future care options and end-of-life planning has fallen victim to the politics of the health care debate. The House included language to pay physicians and...
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Thu, Jan 06 2011 8:53 AM
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Funding For Key Health Reform Provisions: Less Endangered Than You Might Think
With the shift in Washington’s political order, there’s been increasing talk about dismantling Federal health care reform. Outright repeal is highly unlikely. First, it would face opposition from the Democratic majority in the Senate. Even more critically...
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Tue, Jan 04 2011 10:16 AM
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Goldsmith HA Post In Health Wonk Review
Over at Managed Care Matters, Joe Paduda presents a collection of the best in health policy blogging in today’s edition of the Health Wonk Review. Joe highlights Jeff Goldsmith’s Health Affairs Blog post, in which Jeff suggests an approach...
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Thu, Jan 20 2011 11:54 AM
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Some Mental Health Lessons From The Tucson Tragedy
We may never know the motivations behind the horrific acts in Tucson and whether they could have been prevented. Mental illness, however, has been tentatively identified as a “suspect” in the shootings. If we are to learn anything from this tragedy, we...
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Tue, Jan 11 2011 5:34 AM
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Health Policy Brief: Small Business Tax Credits
A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation describes new incentives under the Affordable Care Act for small business owners to provide health insurance coverage for their employees. Employees of small businesses...
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Tue, Jan 18 2011 6:15 AM
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Sebelius On Drug Development: Free Access Through Facebook
The federal government is taking a bigger role in promoting the development of new drugs, in reaction to the slow pace of innovative treatments being generated by the pharmaceutical industry. For example, in Sunday’s New York Times, Gardiner Harris discusses...
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Mon, Jan 24 2011 1:46 PM
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Employers As Doctors
If you don’t keep up with the latest twists and turns in healthy policy, you probably don’t know what value-based health insurance benefits are. A Health Affairs article takes a focused look at it. Here is my layman’s summary: If you are like most people...
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Fri, Jan 21 2011 5:12 AM
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A New Year’s Health Wonk Review
Over at his blog The Apothecary, Avik Roy rings in the New Year by presenting the first Health Wonk Review of 2011. Among the posts Avik highlights: John Kastor and Mark Kelley’s Health Affairs Blog post finding that the cost savings demonstrated...
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Fri, Jan 07 2011 5:21 AM
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The Importance Of The Shared-Savings ACO Model
Certainly no Medicare provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has generated more interest among health care providers, policy analysts, and consultants than the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) for accountable care organizations (ACOs). Because...
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Tue, Jan 25 2011 10:58 AM
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How to Fix Medicare’s Doc Fix Problem
Of all the ghosts that haunt the Medicare program, none has been noisier, scarier or rattled more chains than the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) problem. SGR has required Congress to reset physician payment policy almost every year for the last...
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Thu, Jan 13 2011 11:12 AM
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Berwick, Williams To Speak At The National Health Policy Conference
The success of health reform depends on the efforts of both the public and private sectors. At the 2011 National Health Policy Conference (NHPC), newly confirmed speakers include leading players in both of those realms. Don Berwick, the Administrator...
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Thu, Jan 27 2011 9:00 AM
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The End Of Internal Medicine As We Know It
Editor’s Note: In the post below, Caroline Poplin takes a skeptical look at Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and the trends they represent. For more on ACOs from various perspectives, readers can consult the January issue of Health Affairs...
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Fri, Jan 14 2011 9:13 AM
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Health Spending Grew At An Historically Slow Rate In 2009
During 2009, a year of deep recession followed by slow economic growth, national health care spending rose at its lowest rate in five decades, federal analysts report in the January issue of Health Affairs, released today. Health spending rose only 4...
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Thu, Jan 06 2011 9:34 AM
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