July 2011 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

HA Blog Posts On Exchange Regs Highlighted In Health Wonk Review

Check out Julie Ferguson’s “Heatwave” edition of the Health Wonk Review at Workers’ Comp Insider. Julie presents a great selection of health policy blogging, including Tim Jost’s Health Affairs Blog series on proposed new...

Published Mon, Jul 25 2011 11:11 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog, Insurance, States

The Women’s Preventive Services Report And The Role Of Evidence

Section 1001 of the Affordable Care Act establishes women’s preventive health benefits as a new mandatory coverage class for all insurance products sold in the individual and group markets, self insured employer-sponsored health plans, and benchmark plans...

Published Thu, Jul 21 2011 11:59 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Prevention, Policy, Coverage, Effectiveness

U.S. Health Spending Projected To Grow 5.8 Percent Annually

All health care spending in the United States is projected to grow at an annual average rate of 5.8 percent for the period 2010 through 2020, 1.1 percentage points faster than expected growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP). By 2020, health care spending...

Published Thu, Jul 28 2011 6:48 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Coverage, Hospitals, Medicaid

Jost’s Look At Court Fight Over Reform Tops HA Blog’s June Most-Read List

Tim Jost’s analysis of crucial appellate arguments over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act leads June’s list of most-read Health Affairs Blog posts. Jost examines the arguments before the federal Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals...

Published Tue, Jul 05 2011 9:31 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog, Payment, Health IT, Primary Care, Health Care Costs, Spending, Pharma, Quality, Medicaid, Health Law

A Call For Physicians To Contribute To Solutions, Not Costs

It’s time for America’s physicians, particularly its highly paid procedural specialists, to make a choice. Are we primarily businessmen with a keen eye on the financial bottom line, or are we above all professionals, well versed in the healing arts and...

Published Fri, Jul 29 2011 7:11 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, States, Medicare, Medicaid

Patient Advocates: Flies In The Ointment Of Evidence-Based Care

The women recounted how their lives had been saved as they pleaded for the Food and Drug Administration not to withdraw approval for Avastin as a treatment for advanced *** cancer. They did so even without evidence that it provides benefit and with evidence...

Published Mon, Jul 18 2011 11:07 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Consumers, Public Opinion, Health Care Costs, Spending, Access, Pharma, Personal Experience, Effectiveness

Hypercostitis: Political Theater In Massachusetts

The Play’s the Thing. America boasts the highest health care costs on God’s green earth, and Massachusetts spends more per capita than any other state. Some might say we have a problem. On June 30th, Massachusetts completed four days of hearings on run...

Published Wed, Jul 06 2011 9:35 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Payment, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Competition, Hospitals, Medicaid

Health Affairs Systems Innovations Briefing: Reminder And Time Change

On July 7, 2011, Health Affairs will unveil its July 2011 issue, “New Directions In Systems Innovations.” The issue explores ongoing innovations in health care organization, delivery and financing across a broad front – from Vermont’s recent passage of...

Published Fri, Jul 01 2011 12:43 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, States, Hospitals, Innovation, Aging

Medicaid Expansion And Reform: Hopes And Lessons From California

Editor’s note: In addition to Autumn Kieber-Emmons (photo and bio above), this post is coauthored by Tom Bodenheimer and Kevin Grumbach. Bodenheimer is Professor of Family and Community Medicine at University of California, San Francisco. Grumbach...

Published Thu, Jul 14 2011 11:21 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Physicians, States, Spending, Access, Hospitals, Medicaid

‘Gang Of Six’ Presents Plan To Save $3.7 Trillion

As has been widely reported, the bipartisan group of Senators known as the “Gang of Six” today unveiled a long awaited framework to reduce the nation’s projected debt by $3.7 trillion over ten years. The plan presented by the group —...

Published Tue, Jul 19 2011 1:34 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Politics, Physicians, Spending, Medicare, Medicaid, Long-Term Care

We’re Only Human: Behavioral Economics And British Policy (Part 2)

Editor’s Note: This is the second part of a two-part post discussing behavioral economics and how it is being used by British policymakers. Part 1 focused mostly on the development and general principles of behavioral economics. Part 2 below discusses...

Published Wed, Jul 20 2011 12:22 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Consumers, Policy, Obesity, Europe

We’re Only Human: Behavioral Economics And British Policy (Part 1)

Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part post discussing behavioral economics and how it is being used by British policymakers. Part 1 below focuses mostly on the development and general principles of behavioral economics. Part 2, which discusses...

Published Tue, Jul 19 2011 11:14 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Europe

Assessing The ‘Gang Of Six’ Deficit Reduction Plan

The “Bipartisan Plan to Reduce our Nation’s Deficits” developed by the “Gang of Six (or Seven)”, a group of Senators from both parties, certainly is not something I would brag about before a group of Princeton students who, I routinely tell them, will...

Published Fri, Jul 22 2011 9:12 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Politics, Physicians, Spending, Medicare, Medicaid, Long-Term Care

Letting Go Of Employer-Based Health Insurance

Other than the egg-laying exercise surrounding the ACO regulations, 2011 was a quiet year among Washington health policy experts until June 6 when McKinsey released the results of a survey of employer plans under the Affordable Care Act. The McKinsey...

Published Fri, Jul 22 2011 11:16 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Public Opinion, Employer-Sponsored Insurance

Narrative Matters: Reporting Child Abuse

In the newest Health Affairs Narrative Matters essay, a seventeen-year-old West African immigrant who’s off to college says her facial bruising was inflicted by her father, and a young pediatrician learns about — and rethinks — the process...

Published Tue, Jul 26 2011 9:47 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Physicians, Bioethics, Children

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