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The House Republicans’ Health Plan
On Wednesday, House Republicans, led by Speaker Paul Ryan, released a plan for reforming health care in the United States. The plan is part of Ryan’s broader effort to rally his House colleagues around an ambitious policy agenda, covering everything from...
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Wed, Jun 22 2016 11:01 AM
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Zika, Flint, And The Uncertainties Of Emergency Preparedness
Ongoing Congressional debates concerning the spreading Zika virus provide the latest reminder about our national uncertainties in preparing for and responding to large-scale health emergencies. Storms, fires, industrial accidents, and infrastructure failures...
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Wed, Jun 22 2016 8:00 AM
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Let’s Stop Making Excuses For Egregious Medical Errors
To save the life of a child, a zoo sacrifices a prized, endangered gorilla. In exchange for one nearsighted Israeli soldier captured in Gaza, Israel released 1,000 Palestinian prisoners. (This example from the Middle East may not be surprising. In Judaism...
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HHS Targets Young Adults In Efforts To Improve Marketplace Risk Pool
On June 21, 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a fact sheet reporting on yet another series of efforts to strengthen and improve the sustainability of the Affordable Care Act marketplace risk pools. The initiatives announced...
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Health Affairs Study On Hospital Profitability Gives Us Some Important Factors To Watch Going Forward
In a recent article published in Health Affairs , Ge Bai and Gerard Anderson used Medicare cost report data to measure the profitability of U.S. hospitals and to identify factors associated with higher and lower hospital profitability. The study’s findings...
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Tue, Jun 21 2016 11:30 AM
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The Payment Reform Landscape: Tailoring Payment Reforms To Local Market Dynamics
As Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) and others have documented , payment reform is rapidly expanding across the nation. Providers and health plans are developing accountable care organizations (ACOs), patient-centered medical homes, and other health...
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Tue, Jun 21 2016 7:29 AM
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Takeaways From Our Twitter Chat With PCORI
Recently, we at Health Affairs hosted a Twitter chat with the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) on the topic of patients’ use of evidence. The chat was a follow-up to the Health Affairs issue, “ Patients’ and Consumers’...
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Mon, Jun 20 2016 12:28 PM
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Health Affairs’ Impact Factor Reaches 5, Ranking First Among Health Policy Journals
According to Thomson Reuters’ recently released 2015 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), Health Affairs’ reached its highest ever Impact Factor: 5.23. The journal also earned No. 1 rankings in both the Healthcare Sciences and Services and the Health Policy...
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Mon, Jun 20 2016 10:00 AM
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CMS Expects To Reinsure 55.1 Percent Of Claims Between $45,000 And $250,000
Implementing Health Reform. Recognizing that that once health status underwriting was abolished and preexisting conditions exclusions were banned the individual market would disproportionately attract high-cost enrollees, Congress established as one of...
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Mon, Jun 20 2016 8:40 AM
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Government Appropriation Of Breakthrough Drug Patent Rights Would Deter Biopharmaceutical R&D And Innovation
In the May 2016 issue of Health Affairs , Amy Kapezynski and Aaron Kesselheim propose that the federal government invoke its patent use authority under Section 1498 to lower drug prices and increase access for breakthrough medicines in government-funded...
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Hearing Aids And The Sound Of Mobile Health Disruption
Business disruption, Christensen’s classic observation of disruptive technologies leveraged by market entrants attacking mainstream industry incumbents, has generally failed in health care. There are several reasons why innovative businesses harnessing...
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Fri, Jun 17 2016 8:30 AM
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The World’s Greatest Health Care Plan
Wherever we look around the world today, we almost always find that normal market processes have been systematically suppressed in health care. As a rule, no one ever sees a real price for any medical service. No patient. No doctor. No employer. No employee...
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Thu, Jun 16 2016 12:30 PM
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Alaska Reinsurance Plan Could Be Model For ACA Reform, Plus Other ACA Developments
Although Alaska is our biggest state, its population is small. Only 23,000 Alaskans enrolled in its nongroup market for 2016. Alaska also has very high health care costs. For these reasons, marketplace insurance coverage costs far more in Alaska than...
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Thu, Jun 16 2016 10:15 AM
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A Pot Luck Health Wonk Review
The posts for this week’s Health Wonk Review are an interesting and varied lot. Accordingly, despite the absence of a post on medical marijuana, we’ll call this a “Pot Luck” edition of the Health Wonk Review. We start with Peggy Salvatore’s post at Health...
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Thu, Jun 16 2016 8:02 AM
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Hillary Clinton
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Foundation Blogs Round-Up: Orlando, Flint, High-Deductible Health Plans, and More
Orlando Tragedy: Writings from some foundation leaders “Sunday Mourning,” by Judy Belk, president and CEO of the California Wellness Foundation (CalWellness) , June 14, on the foundation’s For Wellness’ Sake blog. CalWellness has been funding in the area...
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Wed, Jun 15 2016 5:13 PM
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