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Another Exciting Episode Of Health Wonk Review
Over at the New America Foundation, on The New Health Dialogue, Joe Colucci marks what would have been Jim Henson’s 75th birthday with a Muppet edition of the Health Wonk Review. (The title of this blog post is shamelessly stolen from Joe’s...
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Fri, Sep 30 2011 9:01 AM
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The Affordable Care Act Supreme Court Petitions: Issues And Implications
Wednesday, September 28 was a busy day at the Supreme Court clerk’s office. It had been widely expected that there would be a major pleading filed with the clerk in an Affordable Care Act challenge, as the response of the United States to a certiorari...
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Thu, Sep 29 2011 7:10 AM
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What’s Behind The Rise In Premiums For Employer Coverage?
Total premiums for employer-sponsored family health coverage have reached $15,073, up 9 percent from last year, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust reported yesterday in their annual Employer Health Benefits Survey...
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Wed, Sep 28 2011 11:38 AM
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Increased Spending Wipes Out Income Gains; Low-Income Families Hit Hardest
Steadily rising health care costs are exacting a heavy financial toll on many families, leaving them with less and less disposable income while increasing the federal deficit, according to a study in the recently released September issue of Health Affairs...
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Tue, Sep 27 2011 12:52 PM
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Common Sense And Malpractice Reform
Having both medical and law degrees typecasts me. New acquaintances ask if I have ever sued myself. Within the health policy community, colleagues assume I study medical malpractice. So I have let it become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I worked on medical...
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Mon, Sep 26 2011 12:20 PM
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AHIP Conference To Highlight Health Plan Innovations
If the United States is to reduce the growth of its debt over the long term, and if Americans are to have access to affordable medical care, we will have to reinvent our health care system to deliver better care and achieve better health at lower costs...
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Fri, Sep 23 2011 12:28 PM
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Health Affairs Briefing: Disparities In Health And Health Care
On Thursday, October 6, Health Affairs will hold a briefing to release its October 2011 issue, “Agenda For Fighting Disparities.” The issue explores the relationship of social and economic determinants to health disparities; the role of specific environmental...
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Fri, Sep 23 2011 8:20 AM
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New Approaches In A New World, Starting With ACOs
If the last few months have made anything clear, it’s that the fiscal climate has changed and there are no longer any sacred cows. Medicare and other essential health programs are on the chopping block, despite their immense popularity and the fact that...
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Fri, Sep 23 2011 7:33 AM
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Insurance Exchanges: Trouble At The SHOP?
Editor’s note: For more on insurance exchanges, see today’s post by Leesa Tori and Tuesday’s post by Steve Lieberman and Kristin Drobac, as well as Tim Jost’s earlier analyses (here and here) of proposed rules concerning exchanges...
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Thu, Sep 22 2011 9:23 AM
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Insurance Exchanges: Lessons From The Life And Death Of Pac Advantage
Editor’s Note: For more on insurance exchanges, see today’s post by Roger Collier and Tuesday’s post by Steve Lieberman and Kristin Drobac, as well as Tim Jost’s earlier analyses (here and here) of proposed rules concerning exchanges...
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Thu, Sep 22 2011 9:20 AM
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Coaching For Prevention: The Healthy Howard Model
Prevention is critical to reducing rates of chronic disease, premature death and disability, and controlling health care costs. This point has been made many times over by health care and health policy experts both in the United States and abroad. Unfortunately...
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Wed, Sep 21 2011 10:54 AM
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State Perspectives On Implementing Insurance Exchanges
Editor’s note: Watch for additional posts on insurance exchanges coming soon on Health Affairs Blog. The National Governors Association (NGA) hosted a two-day workshop entitled, “Timelines, State Options, and Federal Regulations” to assist states...
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Tue, Sep 20 2011 11:28 AM
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Medicare Is More Efficient Than Private Insurance
Editor’s note: Robert B. Wohl, B.A., Wesleyan 2011, assisted Diane Archer in the preparation of this response to an earlier Health Affairs Blog “Contributing Voices” post by John Goodman and Thomas Saving. See also Austin Frakt’s...
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Tue, Sep 20 2011 7:08 AM
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Medicare Policy And Politics: The Obama Debt Reduction Plan
Today, President Obama offered his plan to reduce the national debt by $3 trillion over 10 years, relative to current law. Most media attention will focus on his “Buffett rule,” the principle that millionaires should not pay average tax rates below those...
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Mon, Sep 19 2011 11:15 AM
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A Brief History Of Health Spending Since 1965
Since last March when we began tracking national health expenditures (NHE) on a monthly basis, we have been wondering when the health spending share of GDP would hit the 18 percent threshold. The recent downward revision of historical GDP estimates has...
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Mon, Sep 19 2011 7:39 AM
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