June 2012 - Health Affairs - The Network of Care

The Supreme Court On The Individual Mandate’s Constitutionality: An Overview

On June 28, 2012, the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It did it in a long and complex decision that rejected the Constitutional argument for upholding the law that had received the most attention...

Published Thu, Jun 28 2012 12:36 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

The Court’s Medicaid Ruling And The Imperative To Communicate The Facts About The ACA

Before yesterday’s remarkable Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), I expected Chief Justice Roberts would lead a majority in a constrained decision which would avoid all but the narrowest consideration of constitutional questions....

Published Fri, Jun 29 2012 12:33 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Public Opinion, States, Medicaid, Health Law, Innovation

Implementing Health Reform: Essential Health Benefits And Plan Accreditation

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) continues to put in place the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that is health reform. On June 1, 2012 HHS released a notice of proposed rulemaking addressing two issues: collection of data to support the essential...

Published Sat, Jun 02 2012 3:01 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

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 Mysterious Diagnosis: A Reflection on Comparative Effectiveness

About a year ago, some medical symptoms that I’ve experienced for several years suddenly got worse. Nothing really severe, but I was concerned enough that I wanted to know if this was just a flare-up of a condition I’ve had for quite a while or if it...

Published Thu, Jun 07 2012 9:26 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Physicians, Personal Experience, Comparative Effectiveness, Research

Health Spending Growth Projected To Average 5.7 Percent Annually Through 2021

New estimates released today from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) project that aggregate health care spending in the United States will grow at an average annual rate of 5.7 percent for 2011 through 2021...

Published Tue, Jun 12 2012 1:14 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Physicians, Spending, Medicare, Pharma, Medicaid

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

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Young Leader Awards: Call For Nominations

As part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s commemorative activities to honor its 40 years of grant-making, the foundation has established the Young Leader Awards: Recognizing Leadership for a Healthier America. This program will recognize up to 10...

Published Wed, Jun 27 2012 4:49 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Coverage, Access, Quality, Innovation

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

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