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Firms Shifting Burden To Workers For Family Coverage

Workers on average are paying nearly $4,000 this year toward the cost of family health coverage — an increase of 14 percent, or $482, above what they paid last year, according to the benchmark 2010 Employer Health Benefits Survey released today...

Published Thu, Sep 02 2010 8:34 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance

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

RWJF’s 2011 ‘Top 20′ Includes 6 From HA; Voting Open For ‘Final 5′

David Colby, vice president of Research and Evaluation at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), has announced the lineup for RWJF’s Most Influential Research Articles of 2011. As it has done in past years, the foundation has listed 20 RWJF-funded...

Published Fri, Dec 09 2011 9:04 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Physicians, Spending, Disparities, Nurses, Environmental Health

The Latest Edition Of The Health Wonk Review

At Workers’ Comp Insider, Julie Ferguson hosts the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review. Despite Julie’s observation that January is “beer month,” there are no indications that she was anything but sober in writing eloquently...

Published Fri, Jan 20 2012 10:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Health Reform: Uncompensated Care Costs And Reductions In Medicaid DSH Payments

Editor’s Note: Today on Health Affairs Blog, Courtney Burke and Erica Martin of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government at the State University of New York in Albany examine two related issues that will be important to monitor and address...

Published Fri, Oct 15 2010 7:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, States, Hospitals, Medicaid

It Takes A Village: Caring For Children With Diabetes

Editor’s Note: The January 2012 issue of Health Affairs is a thematic volume titled “Confronting The Growing Diabetes Crisis.” Ariella was a different child, thin and shy, when I first met her about a year and a half ago, just after...

Published Mon, Jan 23 2012 10:13 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Payment, Physicians, Chronic Care, Spending, Personal Experience, Children, Technology

View Health Affairs Diabetes Briefing

Video of the release event for the January issue of Health Affairs, “Confronting The Growing Diabetes Crisis,” is now available on the Health Affairs Web site. Read More...

Published Thu, Jan 26 2012 4:25 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Prevention, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Spending, Quality, Obesity

Prevention For A Healthier America

The Prevention and Public Health Fund, created by the Affordable Care Act, is an historic investment toward improving the country’s health and quality of life, reducing health care costs for families and businesses, and increasing productivity so the...

Published Thu, Mar 01 2012 9:34 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Prevention, Policy, Politics, Chronic Care, Spending, Obesity

Health Spending Post Heads HA Blog February Most-Read List

How much health spending is sustainable? Charles Roehrig’s post addressing this question heads the list of most-read Health Affairs Blog posts for February. Next on the list is a post contrasting Medicare and commercial insurance by Diane Archer...

Published Wed, Mar 07 2012 10:22 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog, Consumers, Insurance, Physicians, Health IT, States, Spending, Medicare

Is Health Reform Fiscally Responsible?

Editor’s note: On April 10, Charles Blahous released a paper on the fiscal consequences of the Affordable Care Act. Below Len Nichols responds to the arguments Blahous raised in the April 10 paper and offers his own views on the ACA’s fiscal...

Published Fri, Apr 20 2012 12:58 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Payment, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Coverage

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