Health Affairs

Sebelius On Drug Development: Free Access Through Facebook

The federal government is taking a bigger role in promoting the development of new drugs, in reaction to the slow pace of innovative treatments being generated by the pharmaceutical industry. For example, in Sunday’s New York Times, Gardiner Harris discusses...

Published Mon, Jan 24 2011 1:46 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Pharma, Innovation

Employers As Doctors

If you don’t keep up with the latest twists and turns in healthy policy, you probably don’t know what value-based health insurance benefits are. A Health Affairs article takes a focused look at it. Here is my layman’s summary: If you are like most people...

Published Fri, Jan 21 2011 5:12 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Prevention, Policy, Politics, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Comparative Effectiveness

Goldsmith HA Post In Health Wonk Review

Over at Managed Care Matters, Joe Paduda presents a collection of the best in health policy blogging in today’s edition of the Health Wonk Review. Joe highlights Jeff Goldsmith’s Health Affairs Blog post, in which Jeff suggests an approach...

Published Thu, Jan 20 2011 11:54 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Payment, Physicians, Medicare

Health Reform And The Budget

As the Republican-controlled House prepares to vote today to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the debate continues on the consequences of repeal for the federal budget. Full-scale repeal of the ACA will surely die in the Democratic Senate, but the...

Published Wed, Jan 19 2011 7:34 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

The Real Problem With Withdrawing Avastin

In late December, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revoked approval of the cancer drug Avastin for metastatic *** cancer. The decision set off a firestorm of reaction: the right condemned the denial of a potential life-saving drug for *** cancer...

Published Wed, Jan 19 2011 6:16 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Access, Pharma, Technology

Health Policy Brief: Small Business Tax Credits

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation describes new incentives under the Affordable Care Act for small business owners to provide health insurance coverage for their employees. Employees of small businesses...

Published Tue, Jan 18 2011 6:15 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

The End Of Internal Medicine As We Know It

Editor’s Note: In the post below, Caroline Poplin takes a skeptical look at Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and the trends they represent. For more on ACOs from various perspectives, readers can consult the January issue of Health Affairs...

Published Fri, Jan 14 2011 9:13 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, Physicians, Primary Care, Chronic Care, Technology

How to Fix Medicare’s Doc Fix Problem

Of all the ghosts that haunt the Medicare program, none has been noisier, scarier or rattled more chains than the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) problem. SGR has required Congress to reset physician payment policy almost every year for the last...

Published Thu, Jan 13 2011 11:12 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Malpractice Liability Reform, Payment, Physicians, Spending, Medicare

Unfreezing The Health IT Market

Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein recently described the Obama administration’s consistent efforts to improve troubled private markets: Isolate the eight key economic decisions of the Obama presidency: The intervention in the financial sector, the...

Published Wed, Jan 12 2011 11:38 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Health IT, Competition, Innovation

Some Mental Health Lessons From The Tucson Tragedy

We may never know the motivations behind the horrific acts in Tucson and whether they could have been prevented. Mental illness, however, has been tentatively identified as a “suspect” in the shootings. If we are to learn anything from this tragedy, we...

Published Tue, Jan 11 2011 5:34 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Prevention, Access, Children, Mental Health

New Health Affairs: The Next Phase For ACOs

The Affordable Care Act created new “accountable care organizations” (ACOs) in Medicare, and an accompanying “shared savings” program, to improve the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries and reduce unnecessary costs. Now, health systems across the...

Published Fri, Jan 07 2011 8:15 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Payment, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Spending, Hospitals, Innovation

A New Year’s Health Wonk Review

Over at his blog The Apothecary, Avik Roy rings in the New Year by presenting the first Health Wonk Review of 2011. Among the posts Avik highlights: John Kastor and Mark Kelley’s Health Affairs Blog post finding that the cost savings demonstrated...

Published Fri, Jan 07 2011 5:21 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Blog, Physicians

Health Spending Grew At An Historically Slow Rate In 2009

During 2009, a year of deep recession followed by slow economic growth, national health care spending rose at its lowest rate in five decades, federal analysts report in the January issue of Health Affairs, released today. Health spending rose only 4...

Published Thu, Jan 06 2011 9:34 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, Physicians, Spending, Medicare, Pharma, Medicaid

Fact Vs. Fiction In Advance Care Planning, Take Two

For the second time, a proposal to pay health care providers to counsel Medicare beneficiaries on future care options and end-of-life planning has fallen victim to the politics of the health care debate. The House included language to pay physicians and...

Published Thu, Jan 06 2011 8:53 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Politics, Payment, End-of-Life Care, Aging

Health Reform Permeates HA Blog Most-Read List For 2010

Timothy Jost’s analysis of “reconciliation” legislation amending the Affordable Care Act leads the list of most-read Health Affairs Blog posts for 2010. Jost’s post has received more than 17,000 pageviews to date. Overall, Health...

Published Wed, Jan 05 2011 11:55 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog

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