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Under The ACA, Uninsurance Disparities Narrow For Black And Hispanic Adults

Since racial and ethnic minorities make up a disproportionate share of US residents without health insurance, expanded coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was expected to reduce disparities in the US health care system. A new study , being released...

Published Wed, Sep 16 2015 1:02 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Insurance and Coverage, Medicaid and CHIP, Equity and Disparities, Affordable Care Act, Medicaid expansion, Enrollment, Minorities, uninsurance

Now Is A Great Time For Achieving Health Equity—An Optimist’s Viewpoint

This post is adapted from the author’s presentation at the Colorado Health Foundation’s Colorado Health Symposium on July 30, in Keystone, Colorado. A common refrain among health care and public health researchers and practitioners is that a person’s...

Published Wed, Sep 16 2015 12:28 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Nonmedical Determinants, Health IT, Disparities, Children, Innovation, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Social Determinants of Health, Featured, Equity and Disparities, smartphones, STEM fields, Colorado Health Symposium

Increasing Transplant Organ Supply Through Uncontrolled Donation After Cardiac Death

Each year, thousands of people die in the United States while waiting for a kidney or liver transplant and tens of thousands remain on the waiting list for these organs . The primary source of transplant organs in the US is brain dead donors, who make...

Published Wed, Sep 16 2015 8:27 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Bioethics, Hospitals, Population Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Health Professionals, next of kin, cardiac death, organ donation, organ transplants, health care law

Narrative Matters: Medical Myths And End-Stage Kidney Disease

In Health Affairs’ September Narrative Matters essay, a patient with end-stage kidney disease avoids dialysis in favor of a “peaceful death,” but the reality is far from expectations. Farrin Manian’s article is freely available to all readers, or...

Published Tue, Sep 15 2015 12:19 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Quality, End-of-Life Care, Narrative Matters, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, kidney disease, home care, dialysis

How Behavioral Economics Can Advance The Design Of Effective Clinician Incentive Programs

Editor’s note: This is one of several posts Health Affairs Blog will publish stemming from sessions at the June 2015 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) in Minneapolis. Watch Health Affairs Blog for additional posts on topics raised at the ARM...

Published Tue, Sep 15 2015 9:13 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, Health Professionals, Predictably Irrational, quality metrics, behavioral economics, Dan Ariely, Social and Behavioral Sciences Team

Health, Economics, And Preparedness: Considerations And Paths Forward

Last month marked the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which killed nearly 2,000 and displaced more than 250,000 people from Louisiana to Florida. This anniversary and more recent events like Hurricane Sandy, the West Texas explosion, the Boston...

Published Mon, Sep 14 2015 11:21 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Health Care Delivery, Population Health, Featured, Insurance and Coverage, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, Health Professionals, Hurricane Katrina, economics, disaster preparedness

Protecting The Women’s Health Movement On A Global Scale

Editor’s note: This article is part of a series of blog posts by leaders in health and health care who participated in Spotlight Health from June 25-28, the opening segment of the Aspen Ideas Festival . This year’s theme was Smart Solutions to the World...

Published Mon, Sep 14 2015 7:15 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Global Health, Quality, Population Health, Featured, Equity and Disparities, Women's Health, Reproductive Health, Abortion, Spotlight Health, Aspen Ideas Festival, Purvi Patel, Colombia

Implementing Health Reform: Court Strikes Down Restrictions On Sale Of Fixed Indemnity Coverage

For the second time in less than a week, a federal district court in the District of Columbia has rejected the administration’s position in a lawsuit involving the Affordable Care Act. Central United Life v. Burwell , decided by Judge Royce Lamberth on...

Published Sat, Sep 12 2015 12:44 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage

Four Ideas And One Big Lesson From Spotlight Health

Editor’s note: This article is part of a series of blog posts by leaders in health and health care who participated in Spotlight Health from June 25-28, the opening segment of the Aspen Ideas Festival . This year’s theme was Smart Solutions to the World...

Published Fri, Sep 11 2015 7:57 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Global Health, Once In A Weil, Ebola, Spotlight Health, Aspen Ideas Festival, Project HOPE, Tom Kenyon

Health Affairs Noncommunicable Diseases Briefing Recap

On Wednesday, September 9, 2015, Health Affairs commemorated the release of its September issue, “ Noncommunicable Diseases: The Growing Burden ,” at a forum in Washington, DC, with support from Eli Lilly and Company, that featured authors from the issue...

Published Fri, Sep 11 2015 7:40 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Global Health, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Population Health, Featured, Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Technology, Health Affairs events, NCDs, noncommunicable diseases, DC

A Decade After ‘The Storm': Building a Resilient New Orleans

I recently traveled to my beloved hometown of New Orleans to represent GE at a number of events related to the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I had the privilege to participate in the Katrina 10: Resilient New Orleans conference, hosted by Mayor...

Published Thu, Sep 10 2015 12:20 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Primary Care, Access, Personal Experience, Children, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Health Care Delivery

The Global Health Movement Needs The Voices Of Those Affected By NCDs

Cancer. Diabetes. Heart Disease. Alzheimer’s. Many people read about these chronic health conditions and imagine people in wealthy countries like the US and UK trying to manage them. The truth is that these diseases have gone global, disproportionately...

Published Thu, Sep 10 2015 11:18 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Global Health, Quality, Population Health, Featured, Equity and Disparities, World Health Organization, Health Professionals, Patient Engagement, NCDs, noncommunicable diseases, United Nations

Medicare, Fair Pay, And The AMA: The Forgotten History

Perhaps the most well-known part of the 1965 Medicare creation tale is the opposition by the American Medical Association (AMA) to “socialized medicine.” Yet with financial incentives assuming a new prominence for provider and patient alike, we shouldn...

Published Thu, Sep 10 2015 6:38 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Health Professionals, Affordable Care Act, Richard Nixon, socialized medicine, George H.W. Bush, Kenneth Arrow, American Medical Association

Implementing Health Reform: House Can Sue Administration Over ACA Cost-Sharing Reduction Payments

On September 9, 215 Judge Rosemary Collyer of the federal district court for the District of Columbia entered an order refusing to dismiss the complaint of the House of Representatives in House v. Burwell . While Judge Collyer dismissed several of the...

Published Thu, Sep 10 2015 3:29 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Featured, Following the ACA, Insurance and Coverage, ACA litigation, employer mandate, legislative standing, cost-sharing reduction payments, separation of powers

The Atlanta Declaration: A 21st Century Vision For US-Based Global Noncommunicable Disease Research

The United States has been synonymous with innovation. Conducting research to better understand the world and to experiment with new ideas has been an important part of this country’s progress. However, at this critical juncture in history, when chronic...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2015 4:45 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Global Health, Research, Population Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, Health Professionals, HIV/AIDS, NCDs, Google

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