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How Do You Solve A Problem Like Health Reform: Has Singapore Got It Right?

Editor’s Note: This week, senior health policy experts and emerging health care leaders from around the world have gathered in Salzburg, Austria, where the Salzburg Global Seminar, in association with the Nuffield Trust, has convened a health care...

Published Fri, Nov 12 2010 4:02 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Spending, Coverage

Assessments Of Community Health Centers As Medical Homes May Be Flawed

One of the initiatives in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is the expansion of community health centers to provide primary care to millions of newly insured, low-income Americans. The same law promotes the patient-centered medical home model. A community...

Published Thu, Feb 16 2012 1:57 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Chronic Care, Quality

Helping Consumers Choose Health Plans In Exchanges: Best Practice Recommendations

The Health Insurance Exchanges required under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) have the potential to create markets that will help millions of Americans get affordable health insurance coverage and access to high-quality care. The...

Published Wed, Feb 29 2012 7:07 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Competition

Electronic Access For Physicians To Prior Tests Did Not Reduce Costs

Despite the widely held assumption that physicians having computer access to patients’ test results will reduce testing, doctors who have such access to tests in the ambulatory care setting are more likely to order imaging and lab tests. That’s...

Published Mon, Mar 05 2012 1:41 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Physicians, Health IT, Health Care Costs, Technology

The Toll Of Preventable Errors: How Many Dead Patients?

Here’s a quiz for Patient Safety Awareness Week (and after): The number of Americans who die annually from preventable medical errors is: . A) 44,000-98,000, according to the Institute of Medicine B) None, thanks to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement...

Published Fri, Mar 09 2012 7:43 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Quality, Hospitals, Patient Safety

The Fiscal Consequences Of The Affordable Care Act

Editor’s note: On April 10, Charles Blahous released a paper on the fiscal consequences of the Affordable Care Act. Below Blahous presents a condensed and modified version of that paper. In related Health Affairs Blog posts, Paul Van de Water and...

Published Fri, Apr 20 2012 12:49 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Spending, Medicare

Paul Ryan’s Health Care Fantasy

Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan is frequently hailed for his fiscal responsibility and political courage. After all, the Congressman has now put forward not one but two budget plans that offer “a blueprint for safeguarding America from the perils of debt...

Published Thu, Mar 22 2012 10:52 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Politics, States, Spending, Medicare, Coverage, Medicaid, Children

Sara Rosenbaum On Day One Of The SCOTUS Health Reform Arguments: What Was That Medicaid Discussion?

As has been widely reported, a sea of skepticism from all points on the Supreme Court’s ideological spectrum greeted arguments by Robert Long, who had been designated as the Court-appointed defender of the position that the Anti-Injunction Act (AIA),...

Published Mon, Mar 26 2012 8:36 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Sara Rosenbaum On SCOTUS Day Two: Rashomon On The Potomac

In Rashomon, the classic film exploration of truth, director Akira Kurosawa offers a meditation on the degree to which point of view colors reality. A Rashomon of sorts played out during the second day of Supreme Court oral arguments on the Affordable...

Published Tue, Mar 27 2012 7:52 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, Health Law

Marc Rodwin On The Individual Mandate Argument: Allow Congress To Build On Private Insurance

What options does Congress have to insure the public if the Supreme Court rules unconstitutional the Affordable Care Act mandate that individuals purchase insurance? Could Congress create a national public insurance program funded through a payroll tax...

Published Wed, Mar 28 2012 10:31 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, Medicare, Health Law

William Sage On The Last Day Of Supreme Court Arguments: Enough Frivolity For A While

It’s finally over. After nearly six hours of oral argument over the course of three days, the two cases challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act have been officially submitted to the Justices for decision. Two separate issues were...

Published Thu, Mar 29 2012 7:16 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Public Health, Politics, States, Workforce, Quality, Medicaid, Health Law

Read Analysis Of The Supreme Court Health Reform Arguments On Health Affairs Blog

Last week the Supreme Court heard three days of oral arguments on the challenge by 26 states and several private plaintiffs to the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. Specifically, the plaintiffs argued that the ACA’s minimum coverage requirement...

Published Mon, Apr 02 2012 12:25 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Barking Up The Wrong Tree: Affordability, Not Cost Growth, Is The Policy Challenge

A recent spate of commentaries on the continuing health spending moderation raise an important policy question: If the cost curve is well and truly bent, why are we investing so much of our policy energy on bending it further, when the more pressing problem...

Published Mon, May 07 2012 10:55 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Spending, Pharma, Hospitals, Innovation, Technology

Progress Report: The Affordable Care Act’s Extended Dependent Coverage Provision

This week Health Affairs is releasing a Health Policy Brief by T.R. Goldman on Young Adults and the ACA. The brief focuses on the importance of enrolling young adults in coverage through the law’s new marketplaces and Medicaid expansion beginning in 2014...

Published Mon, Dec 16 2013 8:38 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Insurance, Coverage, Health Law, Reform

Funding For Key Health Reform Provisions: Less Endangered Than You Might Think

With the shift in Washington’s political order, there’s been increasing talk about dismantling Federal health care reform. Outright repeal is highly unlikely. First, it would face opposition from the Democratic majority in the Senate. Even more critically...

Published Tue, Jan 04 2011 10:16 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Politics, Spending, Health Law

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