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In ‘The Care Span’: Black Flu Vaccination Rates Still Lag

Flu vaccination rates among nursing home residents have improved slightly, particularly for blacks. Nonetheless, overall vaccination rates remain well below the 90 percent target for high-quality care, and black nursing home residents remain less likely...

Published Thu, Nov 03 2011 2:22 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Disparities, Aging, Long-Term Care

A Tribute To Surgeon General C. Everett Koop

A frequent statement of mine is, "We need public health leadership that cares enough, knows enough, is willing to do enough, and will be persistent." Surgeon General C. Everett Koop was just such a leader, for he was caring; he was competent;...

Published Fri, Mar 01 2013 9:48 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Policy, Politics, Physicians, AIDS, Children, Substance Abuse

Changing The Way Physicians Are Paid: Report Of The National Commission On Physician Payment Reform

The loud cries warning that rising health care costs are going to destroy the nation’s economy have been shouted so often that the will to move firmly in any one direction has almost halted. We’ve all heard them: health care costs are unsustainable, excessive...

Published Mon, Mar 04 2013 5:02 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Prevention, Payment, Physicians, Primary Care, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Competition, Quality, Hospitals

Creating A Workforce For The New Health Care World

Recently, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council reported that Americans die earlier and live in poorer health than people in other industrialized countries. This is the latest evidence of the urgent need for health reform, as embodied...

Published Thu, Mar 07 2013 12:37 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Prevention, Policy, Physicians, Primary Care, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Workforce, Quality, Hospitals, Nurses

Health Reform: The Individual Mandate’s Role And Medicaid Enrollment

Two studies, released last week as Health Affairs Web First articles, examine some of the ramifications of the Affordable Care Act. One, by John Sheils and Randall Haught, of the Lewin Group, estimates that if the individual mandate were eliminated, the...

Published Fri, Nov 04 2011 9:23 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Physicians, Medicaid

New Narrative Matters: When The Medical Community Forgets The Family

In the Health Affairs ' April Narrative Matters essay, when a patient's health suddenly deteriorates, a medical student delivers difficult news to a family whom no one has time for. Pierre Elias' article is freely available to all readers...

Published Thu, Apr 09 2015 8:04 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Workforce, Personal Experience, Narrative Matters, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs

Implementing Health Reform: Federal Appellate Court Voids Missouri Restrictions On Certified Application Counselors

In the five years since it was enacted, the Affordable Care Act has been subject to dozens of legal challenges. Far fewer cases have been brought seeking to implement or enforce the terms of the ACA. On April 10, 2015, however, the federal Court of Appeals...

Published Fri, Apr 10 2015 12:15 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, States, Health Law

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Efforts to Reverse Childhood Obesity

This blog post is excerpted from chapter 5 of To Improve Health and Healthcare: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology, vol. XVI . Recently, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced a commitment of $500 million to help children maintain...

Published Tue, Apr 14 2015 4:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: GrantWatch

If The ACA Were Repealed, Just What Would Replace It?

For five years Republicans have been clamoring for repeal of the Affordable Care Act. With Republicans gaining control of both houses of Congress in 2014, it is now conceivable that they could actually get repeal legislation---or repeal and replace legislation...

Published Tue, Apr 14 2015 12:55 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Politics, States, Medicare, Featured, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, public opinon

From The WHO: Preventing The Next Ebola

As the senior leaders of the World Health Organization, we are taking action to prevent another emergency on the scale of the current Ebola outbreak from happening again. To do this, we need partners to join us in strengthening crucial components of country...

Published Thu, Apr 16 2015 6:46 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Global Health, Featured, Drugs and Medical Technology, Ebola, World Health Organization

Workplace Wellness Programs: Federal Agencies Weigh In

Workplace wellness programs are very controversial. Employers believe that they improve employee health, reduce absenteeism, and cut the cost of employee health benefit programs. They are encouraged in this belief by wellness program vendors, who aggressively...

Published Fri, Apr 17 2015 8:02 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Featured, Insurance and Coverage, Equity and Disparities, privacy, workplace wellness programs, Americans With Disabilities Act

Healthcare.gov Got The Math Wrong For Dependents With Social Security Income And It May Be Costing Families Thousands

Modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) is the methodology adopted by the Affordable Care Act to determine eligibility for Medicaid, the Children’s Health Program (CHIP), and financial assistance in purchasing coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplaces...

Published Mon, Apr 20 2015 10:08 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, CHIP, Following the ACA, healthcare.gov, MAGI, ACA

Abortion Coverage And Health Reform: Bringing Evidence To Bear

Editor’s Note: In addition to Kathryn Phillips and Daniel Grossman (pictures and bios above), coauthors of this article include Tracy Weitz, the Director of the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) program and Assistant Professor...

Published Wed, Jan 13 2010 9:59 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Don’t Handicap The Reform: Protecting Integrated Care Systems

Congress is preparing to finalize a health care bill for both chambers to consider. The purpose of healthcare reform is to increase the number of insured, improve the level of health care and reduce health care spending. Although there are many disputes...

Published Fri, Jan 15 2010 9:41 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Innovation

Health Care Reform And The Trap Of The “Iron Law”

With alarming regularity, many promising pilots in the health care improvement and implementation field have little overall impact when applied more broadly. For example, following early reports that care coordination programs benefit patients and reduce...

Published Wed, Apr 22 2015 9:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Policy, Quality, Research, Featured, Organization and Delivery, evaluation, Rossi's Iron Law, care delivery, CMMI, quality improvement, health care

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