Health Affairs

What Now?: A Four Step Plan For Bipartisan Health Reform

As I concluded in my Health Affairs Blog post last Monday, it should be clearer now than ever that new steps to improve our health care system must be pursued on a bipartisan basis. In the past week, several Members of Congress and the President himself...

Published Tue, Apr 04 2017 7:56 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Medicaid and CHIP, Congress, MACRA, bipartisanship, section 1333, house v. price

A Race To Restore Confidence In The World Health Organization

Editor’s Note: This post reflects on a panel that Dr. Jha moderated this January in Washington, DC hosted by T he Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University Medical Center , the Harvard Global Health Institute , and Health...

Published Thu, Apr 06 2017 7:39 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Ebola, World Health Organization, infectious disease, Zika, Global Health Policy

A New Health Affairs Series: The Practice of Medicine

The April 2017 issue of Health Affairs features the first article in a new series on The Practice of Medicine. The series will explore many facets of the practice environment and how that environment affects physicians and other clinicians. It will cover...

Published Fri, Apr 07 2017 4:16 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Health Professionals, practice of medicine

Medicaid Responds To The Opioid Epidemic: Regulating Prescribing And Finding Ways To Expand Treatment Access

Medicaid programs are at the center of the opioid epidemic. Nearly 12 percent of adults covered by Medicaid have a substance use disorder, including opioid use disorder. Available data suggest that Medicaid beneficiaries are prescribed painkillers at...

Published Tue, Apr 11 2017 7:55 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Section 1115 Waivers, prescription drug abuse, opioid epidemic, prescription drug monitoring programs, preferred drug lists, prior authorization requirements

Making Sense Of ‘Invisible Risk Sharing’

Before Congress recessed last week, the House of Representatives wanted to show some progress in reforming health care, so they left an early Easter surprise: an amendment to the pending American Health Care Act (AHCA) proposing an “Invisible Risk-Sharing...

Published Wed, Apr 12 2017 8:16 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Maine, reinsurance, high-risk pools, AHCA, invisible high risk pools

Looking To The Future Of The US Military Health System

The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) released a March 2017 paper titled “Health, Health Care, and a High-Performance Force,” which I wanted to point out to our readers. One reason for highlighting this paper is that it was published by a bipartisan group...

Published Thu, Apr 13 2017 10:02 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, GrantWatch, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Department of Defense, military families, TRICARE, health insurance benefits, Peter G. Peterson Foundation, military health care

The Future Of Investment In PEPFAR: Understanding PEPFAR’s Multiple Economic, Health, And Diplomatic Impacts

There is much concern about the future of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, under the new administration. Since the creation of PEPFAR in 2003, the US has been the global leader in responding to the urgent need for the treatment...

Published Mon, Apr 17 2017 7:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Maternal Health, HIV/AIDS, PEPFAR, Global Health Policy, health diplomacy

People Post: Staff Changes And Job Openings In Health Philanthropy

Carmen Anderson has been promoted to director of equity and social justice with the Heinz Endowments . The position is within its Children, Youth, and Families program, where she previously was a senior program officer. Before she joined the endowments...

Published Tue, Apr 18 2017 10:37 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: States, Children, Patient Safety, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, health equity, Colorado, New York City, Kansas, Alaska

The Future Of Delivery System Reform

Over the past several years, the federal government has put billions of dollars into a variety of programs aimed at improving the way health care is delivered. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) authorized a broad agenda of reform projects, including accountable...

Published Thu, Apr 20 2017 7:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Accountable Care Organizations, ACOs, Medicare Advantage, Affordable Care Act, MACRA, HMOs, supplemental insurance reform

Don Berwick On Patient-Centeredness And More

In an essay in Health Affairs last year, Don Berwick, President Obama’s nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, surveys the debate in the health policy community over how the principle of “patient-centeredness” should...

Published Fri, Apr 23 2010 11:48 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Physicians, Quality

The Health Wonk Review

Healthcare Economist hosts the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review. Jason Shafrin ably presents the latest in quality health policy blogging, using a theme that we here in the Washington D.C. area have become sadly unfamiliar with: the NBA playoffs...

Published Thu, Apr 29 2010 3:20 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Blog

Calm Down, America: ObamaCare Is Far From A Revolutionary Change In Our Health System

Three and half years after passage of President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the law is about to reach an important milestone. On January 1, 2014, millions of Americans will no longer be uninsured and a new system for obtaining...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2013 1:16 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Glied On High-Deductible Plans And Cost-Sharing

A Health Affairs Blog post yesterday discussed material on mental health and mandates that Sherry Glied, President Obama’s nominee to be the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services, has published...

Published Thu, May 27 2010 4:43 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Insurance, Spending

Who Stands To Gain From Health Reform?

As the United States begins implementing health reform, many aspects of the new law will be experienced differently depending on an individual’s current health insurance status. Joseph Newhouse, an internationally renowned Harvard economist, assessed...

Published Thu, Jul 22 2010 5:10 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Humanitarian Assistance: Turning Commitment And Competence Into Professionalism

Until recently, much of the humanitarian response to disasters from the volunteer sector could be characterized as committed and compassionate – and competent as well, if sometimes just barely. From the South Asian tsunami of 2004, to the devastating...

Published Mon, Jul 26 2010 9:17 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Workforce, Global Health

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