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The Transformation Of Medical Education From Choosing More To Choosing Wisely
Professionalism And Choosing Wisely
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1332 Reinsurance Waivers Revisited: Could Oregon’s Approval Beget An Oklahoma Do-Over?
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Reflections On AIDS 2012
Editor’s note: The current issue of Health Affairs is a thematic volume focusing on the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Last week’s 19th International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. convened 25,000 scholars, activists...
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Narrative Matters: ‘If Only I’d Known Then What I Know Now’
Patent registries collect data for the scientific assessment of patient outcomes for particular conditions, devices, and treatment protocols. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is currently developing a catalog of all such registries around...
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Tue, Aug 21 2012 11:35 AM
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Cost And Quality Concerns, Policy Changes Lead To Innovation, Collaboration — And Accountable Care
Health care in the United States is changing at a pace not seen since the launch of Medicare. The changes are largely a response to runaway medical costs in our health care delivery system. Our nation spends nearly twice as much per person on health care...
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Fri, Aug 24 2012 9:24 AM
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Comment Period Open For PCORI’s Draft Report On Comparative Effectiveness Research Methodology
The public may comment on the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s draft methodology report. As many readers know, PCORI is a public-private entity created in the Affordable Care Act to fund and set priorities for comparative effectiveness...
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Thu, Aug 09 2012 10:57 AM
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The Release Of Massachusetts Health Reform 2.0
After a two-year gestation period for its payment reform and cost control bill, the Massachusetts legislature finally delivered…an exoskeleton. Time will tell whether the law will be transformed through the magic of implementation genetic engineering...
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Mon, Aug 13 2012 12:07 PM
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Expanding Medicaid: The Smart Decision For Maryland
Editor’s note: The post below explains why Maryland has chosen to implement the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. Watch Health Affairs Blog for an upcoming post explaining why South Carolina has decided not to implement the expansion...
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Wed, Aug 29 2012 12:03 PM
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Bring Medicare Into The Twenty-First Century
Twentieth Century Medicare. Medicare, the federal medical and hospital insurance program for seniors and disabled, reflects the popular understanding of medical care 50 years ago: primarily treatment by doctors of acute episodes such as pneumonia. Medicare...
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Thu, Aug 16 2012 11:40 AM
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Implementing Health Reform: A Final Exchange Blueprint And Other News
On August 14, 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services took one step closer to implementation of the Affordable Care Act health insurance exchanges by releasing the final version of its Blueprint for Approval of Affordable State-based and State...
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Wed, Aug 15 2012 5:10 AM
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New Health Affairs: The Good, The Bad And The Possible For The US Safety Net
Research and analysis in the August issue of Health Affairs, released today, focuses on the state of the safety net for uninsured and low-income Americans in the context of key provisions in the Affordable Care Act. The authors examine a range of issues...
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Mon, Aug 06 2012 1:23 PM
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Health Care: An Alternate Economic Universe
In July, 2012, the US economy produced roughly the same volume of goods and services as it did five years earlier with five million fewer workers. Yet, during the first four years of the recession (May, 2007 to May 2011), the US health system, despite...
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Thu, Aug 23 2012 12:09 PM
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From The HA Blog Archives: The Debate Over Paul Ryan’s Proposals
Mitt Romney’s selection of House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) as his running mate will focus even more attention on Ryan’s proposals to overhaul public health care programs. Ryan has advocated moving Medicare to a “premium...
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Sat, Aug 11 2012 5:34 AM
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‘Health In All Policies’ At The Department Of Housing And Urban Development
An August 22 Health Affairs Web First traces the evolution of the health policies of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from the Johnson administration to the Obama administration. The article, by Raphael Bostic of the University...
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Mon, Aug 27 2012 10:04 AM
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Health Policy Brief: Risk Adjustment In Health Insurance
A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation looks at so-called risk adjustment—an approach that will be needed in insurance exchanges scheduled to open in 2014. When the exchanges created under the Affordable Care...
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Fri, Aug 31 2012 12:44 PM
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Misguided Genetic Exceptionalism
While society should be careful about its uses of genetic testing and its efforts to modify the genome, some people overreact when dealing with DNA. Consider two recent examples reported in the media. A genetic cancer test. In a fascinating series on...
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Fri, Aug 03 2012 8:46 AM
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A Brainy Health Wonk Review
Jaan Sidorov has “A Brainy Health Wonk Review on Health Reform, the Affordable Care Act and Lots More!” over at Disease Management Care Blog. Check out Jaan’s collection of great health policy blogging, including a Health Affairs Blog...
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Mon, Aug 20 2012 9:10 AM
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