Health Affairs

Encouraging Nonprofit Hospitals To Invest In Community Building: The Role Of IRS ‘Safe Harbors’

Hospitals as public health actors. A notable development in public health policy is the growing emphasis on community health improvement as part of the community benefit activities required of nonprofit hospitals that seek federal tax exempt status under...

Published Tue, Feb 11 2014 6:43 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Policy, Hospitals

Low ACA Knowledge And Health Literacy Hinder Young Adult Marketplace Enrollment

Since October, the focus within the media and the health policy community has been on the troubled roll-out of Healthcare.gov and some of the state websites set up to enroll people in coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). But most Americans have...

Published Wed, Feb 12 2014 12:55 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Coverage, Access, Technology

Health Policy Brief: Repealing The 1099 Provision

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation describes efforts to repeal the so-called 1099 provision in the Affordable Care Act. That provision was designed to help finance the expansion of health insurance coverage...

Published Tue, Feb 15 2011 8:40 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Health Wonk Review Valentine’s Edition

The latest edition of the Health Wonk Review has been posted at the Colorado Long Term Care Insider. Jay Norris offers a collection of some of the best in recent health policy blogging, including Jessie Gruman’s Health Affairs Blog post, “A...

Published Thu, Feb 17 2011 12:08 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Blog

Bundled Payments: Toward A Challenging Yet Better Place

‘But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ Alice remarked. ‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the Cat. ‘We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.’ ‘How do you know I’m mad?’ said Alice. ‘You must be,”...

Published Fri, Jun 01 2012 5:59 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Payment, Health Care Costs, Spending, Quality

Transplant Proposal Provides Model For Reform Debate

For the past two years, debate as to whether health reform would result in rationing has underscored the contradiction between the health care Americans would like to have and what we’re actually willing to pay for it. One may note that the terms budgeting...

Published Wed, Mar 02 2011 12:18 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Bioethics

The ACA’s Contraception Coverage Mandate: Constitutional Limits On Exempting Employers

On March 25, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments over whether the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) requirement that for-profit companies cover contraception—commonly called the contraception mandate—is legal. Thus far, most public debate, scholarship...

Published Thu, Mar 20 2014 7:19 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Countering Cancer: The New Foreign Policy Issue

For years internationalists have being trying to make the argument to ordinary Americans that foreign policy matters -- that we must contend with complex issues overseas like countering terrorism while also focusing resources and energies on economic...

Published Fri, Mar 21 2014 10:51 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Chronic Care, Global Health

Health Insurance Coverage Is Just The First Step: Findings From Massachusetts

As the rollout of coverage expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues across the country, more Americans are gaining insurance coverage , with all the benefits that that implies in terms of health care access and financial protections. However...

Published Wed, Mar 26 2014 7:24 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, Health Care Costs, States, Coverage, Access, Cost

A March Madness Health Wonk Review

Welcome to the “March Madness” edition of the Health Wonk Review. The NCAA college basketball tournament seemed like a natural theme for a health care policy blog post: huge amounts of money floating around in ways that only sometimes correlate with performance...

Published Thu, Mar 27 2014 7:32 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog, Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, States, Coverage, Quality, Obesity

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

Health Affairs Receives Award From Employers’ Health Group

John Iglehart and Susan Dentzer, Health Affairs’ founding and current editors-in-chief, received the Health Policy Innovation Leadership Award from the National Business Group on Health, a non-profit group of more than 300 large employers. The award was...

Published Wed, Mar 16 2011 7:10 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Employer-Sponsored Insurance

The Case For Global Health Diplomacy

At the end of February, I had the pleasure of speaking about global health diplomacy at the Nursing Leadership in Global Health Symposium at Vanderbilt University. Nurses are one of the specialties that we support in the Frist Global Health Leaders program...

Published Mon, Apr 14 2014 10:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Global Health, Nurses

Companies Must Approach Advanced Health Events As A Business Issue

Editor's note: In addition to J. Brent Pawlecki, this post is also coauthored by Dan Morhaim. For more on this topic, see the April issue of Health Affairs , which features a series of articles on Alzheimer's disease. In the corporate world, every...

Published Wed, Apr 16 2014 6:28 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, End-of-Life Care, Aging, Long-Term Care, Business of Health Care

Development Assistance For Global Health: Is The Funding Revolution Over?

In many ways, the last twenty years have been somewhat of a “revolution” in global health, as marked by rising attention, growing funding, and the creation of new, large scale initiatives to address global health challenges in low and middle income countries...

Published Thu, Apr 17 2014 1:45 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Policy, Spending, Global Health, AIDS

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