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ACA Round-Up: Bipartisan Proposal To Revamp Employer Reporting Requirements And More

Throughout a summer of intensely partisan efforts to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act, there have been flickers of bipartisanship, including a sustained effort by Senators Alexander (R-TN) and Murray (D-WA) and the Senate Health, Education...

Published Wed, Oct 04 2017 9:42 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP

Calling All Wonder Women—The US Health System Needs Strong Leaders, Healthy Mothers

Legend has it that the creation of Wonder Woman —the super hero and pop culture icon who has saved us from imminent doom since World War II—was inspired by real-life women’s health activists from the early twentieth century. These were women who bucked...

Published Thu, Oct 05 2017 2:19 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Disparities, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Population Health, Featured, Health Professionals, Women's Health, pregnancy, community health workers, Jewish Healthcare Foundation, Latinas, maternal mortality

Sessions Outlines Religious Liberty Principles To Guide Government Actions

On October 6, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions released a memorandum on religious liberty protections for all executive departments and agencies and guidance to Department of Justice staff on how to implement this memorandum. The memorandum outlines...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2017 10:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, ACA section 1557, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, contraceptive coverage mandate, free exercise of religion

The Insufficiency Of Medicaid Block Grants: The Example Of Puerto Rico

Medicaid block grants have been a centerpiece of Republican health proposals for more than a decade. Proponents, including House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), argue that giving states a fixed amount of money through a block grant or per-person limit with...

Published Thu, Oct 12 2017 5:44 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicaid and CHIP, Puerto Rico, block grants, disaster relief

Administration’s Ending Of Cost-Sharing Reduction Payments Likely To Roil Individual Markets

Yesterday, October 12, 2017, the White House press office announced that the administration will no longer be reimbursing insurers for the cost-sharing reductions they are legally required to make for low-income individuals. The Affordable Care Act requires...

Published Fri, Oct 13 2017 4:45 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, California, cost-sharing reduction payments, advance premium tax credits, ACA Marketplaces, individual market

A New Plan To Rescue The ACA: Medicare-At-55

On October 12, 2017, the Trump Administration announced that it would end subsidies that reduce out-of-pocket payments for low-income individuals. This action might drive insurers out of the exchanges and might encourage younger people to drop their individual...

Published Mon, Oct 16 2017 8:16 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Featured, Following the ACA, Costs and Spending, ACA, individual insurance market, Medicare-At-55

The Alexander-Murray Market Stabilization Package: What’s In It And Where’s It Going?

They may have done it. The apocryphal bipartisan deal to “fix” Obamacare is being struck (at least by two important Senators, for now, in part …). Today, Senators Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Patty Murray of Washington announced they are converging...

Published Tue, Oct 17 2017 7:55 PM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, reinsurance, 1332 waivers, cost-sharing reduction payments, interstate insurance, copper plans

The Next Chapter In Transparency: Maryland’s Wear The Cost

Historically, the State of Maryland’s per capita health spending has been substantially higher than the national average . In an attempt to control health care costs, the state has been administering an all-payer rate setting system for Maryland hospitals—fixing...

Published Thu, Oct 19 2017 6:00 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, Costs and Spending, Maryland, wear the cost, Maryland Health Care Commission

Request For Abstracts: Health and Health Care in California

Health Affairs is planning a theme issue focusing on the State of California , scheduled for publication in September 2018. The theme issue will examine developments, trends, and emerging priorities within the State of California, as well as the larger...

Published Fri, Oct 20 2017 8:38 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, ACA, California, CalPERS, Covered California, MediCal, CalSIM, demographics

Doctor Of Osteopathic Medicine: A Growing Share Of The Physician Workforce

Doctors of osteopathic medicine have been around since the late-1800s but are gaining increasing attention due to their recent dramatic growth. While doctor of osteopathic medicine training was originally more focused on spinal manipulation, today it...

Published Mon, Oct 23 2017 6:42 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Population Health, Health Professionals, osteopaths, physician supply, doctors of osteopathic medicine

The Transformation Of Medical Education From Choosing More To Choosing Wisely

Clinicians and patients value thoroughness. However, as new testing and treatment options have multiplied over the past few decades, the desire to leave no stone unturned has had unintended consequences. Patients can be harmed by too much care, just as...

Published Tue, Oct 24 2017 5:46 AM by Health Affairs BlogHealth Affairs Blog

Filed under: Costs and Spending, Health Professionals, Choosing Wisely, value-based health care, medical education, medical professionals, affordability, overtreatment, appropriate care

Implementing Health Reform: The Small Employer Tax Credit

Editor’s Note: Earlier posts by Timothy Jost provide analyses of regulations implementing provisions of the new health reform legislation governing the Web portal, reinsurance for early retirees, and young adult coverage. Implementation of health...

Published Tue, May 18 2010 1:54 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Health Policy Brief: Navigators And Assisters

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation discusses the challenges facing so-called navigators and assisters as they help consumers understand and select health insurance policies from the Affordable Care Act...

Published Fri, Nov 01 2013 12:14 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Insurance, States

Obesity Prevention: A Responsive Communitarian Approach (Part 2)

Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a two-part post by Amitai Etzioni examining the nation’s anti-obesity policies through the lens of a responsive communitarian philosophy. Yesterday, Etzioni laid out a responsive communitarian framework...

Published Fri, Jul 02 2010 7:57 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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

Will More Insurers Control Health Care Costs Better?

A common theme among health reformers has been that the small-group and individual markets for health insurance are too concentrated and thus inadequately competitive. The proposed remedy is to have more independent insurers compete within local markets...

Published Fri, Jul 09 2010 10:38 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, Health Care Costs, Spending, Competition

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