June 2012 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

A New Tool To Track The Progress Of The Health Care System

Editor’s note: In addition to Sherry Glied, the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) at HHS, (photo and linked bio above), this post is coauthored by Erin Miller, a Public Health Analyst and Special Assistant to the ASPE, and Julia...

Published Fri, Jun 01 2012 9:42 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Public Health, Policy, Health Care Costs, Workforce, Quality, Disparities, Research

Private Insurance Is Bankrupting Americans: Is Congress Paying Attention?

Everyone agrees that there’s a cost crisis in the American health care system, but little attention is being paid to a major piece of the problem—enormous private insurance costs resulting in exorbitant premiums and cost-sharing for Americans. The focus...

Published Tue, Jun 26 2012 11:36 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Spending, Medicare

The Supreme Court Health Reform Decision: Our Upside-Down Constitution

The one lesson that everyone should learn from reading the Supreme Court Affordable Care Act opinions is that we are all very poor seers when it comes to predicting the decisions of the United States Supreme Court. No one thought that Justice Roberts...

Published Thu, Jun 28 2012 8:21 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, States, Medicaid, Health Law

It’s Too Late To Turn Back: A Transformation To Wellcare Is Underway

As pundits and politicians ruminate on the impact of the looming Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act, there is one incontrovertible and uncontroversial message for the country. Our commitment to wellness and health, rather than simply...

Published Mon, Jun 18 2012 5:51 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Public Health, Prevention, Policy, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Spending, Obesity

The Supreme Court’s ACA Decision: Reaffirming Broad Congressional Power

The vote may only have been 5-4, and a majority may have rejected the government’s Commerce Clause argument, but the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act was a strong verdict for the power of Congress to regulate on behalf of the public...

Published Fri, Jun 29 2012 5:13 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Public Health, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Health Law

Preserving The Republic: Justice Roberts’ Affordable Care Act Opinion

Chief Justice John Roberts did right by America. Thursday’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the law’s minimum coverage provision and allowed the Affordable Care Act to move forward. Health reform is often simpler than...

Published Sat, Jun 30 2012 12:12 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Nonmedical Determinants, Prevention, Public Opinion, Health Care Costs, States, Quality, Medicaid, Health Law

Preserving The Republic: Chief Justice Roberts’ Affordable Care Act Opinion

Chief Justice John Roberts did right by America. Thursday’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the law’s minimum coverage provision and allowed the Affordable Care Act to move forward. Health reform is often simpler than...

Published Sat, Jun 30 2012 12:12 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Nonmedical Determinants, Prevention, Public Opinion, Health Care Costs, States, Quality, Medicaid, Health Law

Putting The Patient At The Center Of The Physician Payment Sunshine Act

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released proposed regulations on public disclosure of drug and device industry payments and gifts to physicians. The regulations would implement the ground-breaking Physician Payment Sunshine...

Published Wed, Jun 13 2012 7:27 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Pharma

Medicare’s Lake Wobegon Approach To ‘Pay For Performance’

At its best, the free market rewards companies that provide a superior service at the best price. A few years back, Medicare tried to bring similar incentives to its market-oriented Medicare Advantage program, which was created to give seniors more control...

Published Tue, Jun 26 2012 12:47 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Medicare, Quality

Most-Read HA Blog Posts For May And April

Diane Meier’s discussion of the barriers to palliative care and how we might overcome those barriers tops the list of most-read Health Affairs Blog posts for May. As an example of how the system should work but too often doesn’t, Meier cites...

Published Fri, Jun 22 2012 9:16 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog, Spending, Health Law, End-of-Life Care

Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative: Barely A Ripple Now, Enormous Promise For Later

They are the stories that make us cringe, because their human and financial costs are as massive as they are avoidable. A middle-aged woman newly diagnosed with diabetes knows she has to test her blood sugar levels but doesn’t know how to manage...

Published Thu, Jun 21 2012 9:39 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Consumers, Policy, Payment, Primary Care, Medicare, Innovation

The EHR Has No Clothes

Having been a serious computer geek in an earlier phase of my life, I always thought that having an electronic medical record (a.k.a. an electronic health record or EHR) would be a wonderful thing. I could access data from anywhere with no lost charts;...

Published Wed, Jun 20 2012 9:59 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Physicians, Health IT, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Medicaid

For Older Adults, Unexpected Hazards In Several Provisions Of The Affordable Care Act

One of the goals of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is to reduce the fragmentation of services for patients. The problems of fragmentation are magnified for the six million Americans receiving long-term services. New analysis, released as a Web First by...

Published Thu, Jun 21 2012 1:30 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Payment, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Aging, Long-Term Care

Little-Noted Provision On Agents And Brokers Could Mean Big Changes For Exchanges

There has been little attention paid to a game-changing decision by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in its March 2012 health insurance exchange final rule. Yet, this small addition has the potential to drive big changes in the exchange...

Published Fri, Jun 08 2012 8:38 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, States

Why Prices Matter

The single biggest mistake in all of health policy is the belief that the best way to make health care accessible is to make it free at the point of delivery. This mistake underlies our entire approach to providing health care to low-income families in...

Published Mon, Jun 18 2012 9:15 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Payment, Health Care Costs, Access, Disparities, Medicaid

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