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Health Policy Brief: Congress And The Affordable Care Act
A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines the current congressional fight over derailing implementation of the Affordable Care Act. On January 19, 2011, the Republican-dominated House of Representatives...
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Mon, Feb 28 2011 9:09 AM
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House Family Planning Cuts: Bad Medicine And Bad Economics
Last week, on February 19, under the pretext of cutting the federal deficit, the United States House of Representatives voted to eliminate funding and end reimbursement to health care providers supplying crucial sexual and reproductive health care to...
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Fri, Feb 25 2011 6:01 AM
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Health Affairs Briefing: Innovation And Health Care Delivery
On March 8, 2011, please join Health Affairs for a briefing tied to the release of the March 2011 issue of the journal, “Profiles of Innovation in Health Care Delivery.” Topics covered in the issue and discussed at the briefing will include...
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Thu, Feb 24 2011 10:34 AM
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Medical Errors Podcast Added to Narrative Matters iTunes U Collection
Health Affairs today added a podcast about medical errors to its free collection of podcasts of Narrative Matters essays on iTunes U. The essay was written by Michael Rowe, an associate clinical professor in the Yale School of Medicine. Titled “The...
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Wed, Feb 23 2011 11:43 AM
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Mismanaged Hospital Operations: A Neglected Threat To Reform
If one performs a “Google” search with the key words: “health reform” and “US OR America” for 2007, one will find about 160,000 links. If one does the same for 2010, there will be over 2.5 million links. Quite a difference! This is not surprising, since...
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Tue, Feb 22 2011 9:38 AM
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The Future of Consumer-Directed Health Care
Over the next decade I believe we are going to see a major transformation of American medicine. It won’t be the kind of transformation that is normally discussed at health care conferences and at inside-the-Beltway briefings. Nor will it be the...
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Fri, Feb 18 2011 8:51 AM
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Foundation Blogs Round-up: Health Reform, Disparities, Global Health, Obesity, and More
As my work week draws to a close, I have put together a quick listing of some foundation-related posts that I think you might want to check out. If your foundation has a blog about health care and it is not listed on GrantWatch Blog’s Blogroll, let me...
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Thu, Feb 17 2011 4:56 PM
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Health Wonk Review Valentine’s Edition
The latest edition of the Health Wonk Review has been posted at the Colorado Long Term Care Insider. Jay Norris offers a collection of some of the best in recent health policy blogging, including Jessie Gruman’s Health Affairs Blog post, “A...
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Thu, Feb 17 2011 12:08 PM
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Defining Essential Benefits: Congress’ Once And Future Role
A non-governmental advisory body has begun to define one of the most important elements of last year’s health reform law. A committee of the Institute of Medicine will develop recommendations to the Department of Health and Human Services on how to define...
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Thu, Feb 17 2011 10:38 AM
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Eradicating Polio: Will We Succeed This Time?
Editor’s Note: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other global health leaders recently launched a new effort to eradicate polio. Below, Scott Barrett comments on the potential rewards and the risks of this new initiative, and in another post...
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Wed, Feb 16 2011 12:42 PM
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Eradicating Polio: Challenges And Questions
Editor’s Note: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other global health leaders recently launched a new effort to eradicate polio. Below, Judith Kaufmann comments on the potential rewards and the risks of this new initiative, and in another...
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Wed, Feb 16 2011 12:37 PM
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Health Policy Brief: Repealing The 1099 Provision
A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation describes efforts to repeal the so-called 1099 provision in the Affordable Care Act. That provision was designed to help finance the expansion of health insurance coverage...
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Tue, Feb 15 2011 8:40 AM
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Health Care In The 2012 Budget: Looking Forward And Backward
Today, President Barack Obama released his Annual Budget, which emphasizes the Administration’s vision for moving forward by out-innovating, out-educating and out-building out of a recession. The President proposes a freeze on non-security discretionary...
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Mon, Feb 14 2011 2:06 PM
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Sebelius Tells Story Of HA Narrative Matters Author
In a speech last week at the Kaiser Family Foundation, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that the Administration was looking at ways to buttress the financing of a new long-term care insurance program included in the Affordable...
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Mon, Feb 14 2011 9:29 AM
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A Valentine To Shared Decision Making
Shared decision making is hot right now. Research. Surveys. Tools. Training. Conferences. Policies. The current model of shared decision making consists of providing patients with evidence that allows them to compare the risks and side effects of different...
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Mon, Feb 14 2011 8:38 AM
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