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Transcending Obamacare? Analyzing Avik Roy’s ACA Replacement Plan

Avik Roy’s proposal, “ Transcending Obamacare ,” is the latest and most thoroughly developed conservative alternative for reforming the American health care system in the wake of the Affordable Care Act. It is a serious proposal, and it deserves to be...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2014 11:53 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Public Opinion, Health Care Costs, States, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Spending, Medicare, Coverage, Access, Quality, Medicaid

Paying For A Permanent, Or Semi-Permanent, Medicare Physician Payment Fix

Editor's note: In addition to Mark McClellan (photo and linked bio above), this post is authored by Keith Fontenot, Alice Rivlin, and Erica Socker. Fontenot is a visiting scholar at the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution;...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2014 11:18 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Payment, Physicians, Spending, Medicare, Medicaid

A Senate GOP Health Reform Proposal: The Burr-Coburn-Hatch Plan

Republican Senators Richard Burr, Tom Coburn, and Orrin Hatch recently released a blueprint for repealing and replacing Obamacare, called the Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment Act, or the Patient CARE Act (PCA). The plan is...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2014 8:03 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

US Health Spending Growth Projected To Average 5.8 Percent Annually Through 2022

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 5.8 percent for 2012–22, or 1.0...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2013 1:06 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Spending, Medicare, Pharma, Hospitals, Medicaid

Reflections On The Federal Budget Resolutions

According to a process laid out in the Budget Act of 1974, the budget resolutions put forth by the House of Representatives and the Senate emerge as modifications, sometimes substantial, of the budget to be submitted by the first Monday in February by...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2013 5:53 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, States, Spending, Medicare, Coverage, Disparities, Medicaid

The Affordable Care Act At Three: Paying For Quality Saves Health Care Dollars

For decades before the passage of the Affordable Care Act, health care costs outstripped inflation, without corresponding improvements in health care quality. Our system didn’t incentivize quality or efficiency. We paid providers for the quantity of care...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2013 6:17 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Prevention, Policy, Payment, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Medicaid

Where Is Health Spending Headed? Some Reactions To The CMS Report

For the third year in a row, national health spending in 2011 grew less than 4 percent, according to the CMS Office of the Actuary. However, the report said modest rebounds in pharmaceutical spending and physician visits pointed toward an acceleration...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2013 9:15 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Physicians, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Medicare, Competition, Access, Pharma, Hospitals, Medicaid

Health Wonk Review: The Inauguration Edition

For the previous Health Wonk Review, Brad Wright chose a Baby New Year theme. However, there were some problems with the new beginning represented by the turnover from 2012 to 2103. For example, with the New Years fiscal cliff deal, one might have hoped...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2013 9:31 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog, Public Health, Consumers, Prevention, Policy, Insurance, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Medicare, Pharma, Medicaid, Aging, Nurses

How Will Reform Affect Health Spending?

U.S. health spending is projected to reach nearly $4.6 trillion by 2019, growing at an average annual rate over the next decade of 6.3 percent, according to economists at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). By 2019, health care is projected...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2010 8:53 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Spending, Medicare, Medicaid, Children

New Health Affairs Issue: Implementing Health Reform

State and federal officials, insurers, and health care providers face thousands of important decisions in implementing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, according to the June issue of Health Affairs. In this issue, some of the nation...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2010 4:05 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Insurance, States, Spending, Medicare, Medicaid, Health Law

The Revised Senate Health Reform Bill: Cost Control And Other Aspects

One of the most common complaints about the health reform legislation pending in Congress is that the bills do nothing to control the growth in health care costs or improve the quality of health care. Those who raise this complaint either have not read...

Published Sun, Dec 12 2009 9:14 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Malpractice Liability Reform, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Quality, Medicaid, Health Law

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