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Health Wonk Review At Health Business Blog

Today Health Business Blog hosts the Health Wonk Review, which sums up the best of health policy blogging–from questions about future of managed care, Medicare, and health reform to nursing...

Started in Health Affairs Blog • 3 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: all categories, blog, health reform, medicare, nurses
Health Workforce: A Call For A National Policy

Government policymakers and private-sector stakeholders have been crafting the nation’s health care workforce for years without answering definitively a question that lies at the heart of the matter:...

Started in Health Affairs Blog • 4 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: all categories, policy, workforce
Top 10 Health Affairs Blog Posts For June

In June, Health Affairs Blog featured a series of guest posts on pay for performance and offered blogs from the Global Health Council meeting and Annual Research Meeting of AcademyHealth, both held...

Started in Health Affairs Blog • 2 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: all categories, blog, consumers, payment, quality
Medicare Smackdown Had Humble Beginnings

No doubt that Teddy Kennedy’s dramatic return to the Capitol on Wednesday and the senatorial smackdown on Medicare that ensued were the stuff of legend. With Kennedy’s vote putting the Senate...

Started in Health Affairs Blog • 3 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: all categories, medicare, payment, physicians, politics
Eight Days: A Health Care Diary

PAIN (Chicago, June 19 – June 21) I sit down at a circular table in the high-ceilinged meeting room and conversationally ask the two women already there what brought them to this three-day...

Started in Health Affairs Blog • 3 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: all categories, consumers, patient safety, personal experience, quality
Obesity Rising In China

Like the United States, China is grappling with a serious obesity epidemic, with more than 25 percent of its adults considered overweight or obese, according to a study out today in Health Affairs....

Started in Health Affairs Blog • 3 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: all categories, global health, public health
On Physician Payment, Medicare Advantage Cuts: A Game Of Chicken

Editor’s Note: Shorter versions of this post have appeared on The Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review and The Health Care Blog.  Senate Democrats and Republicans are engaged in one heck...

Started in Health Affairs Blog • 4 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: all categories, insurance, medicare, physicians, politics
Health Affairs Briefing: Health In India And China

India and China have undergone major economic transformations in the past quarter-century – and each now has a middle class that is bigger than the entire U.S. population. Their health care systems...

Started in Health Affairs Blog • 4 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: global health
Access Woes Intensify Cost Dilemma

For the second time in as many weeks, a respected research organization has reported sharp increases in reported difficulties with access to care for insured as well as uninsured patients. Earlier...

Started in Health Affairs Blog • 4 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: access, insurance, spending
Bernanke’s View Of Health Care On Health Wonk Review

Today’s edition of the Health Wonk Review features a post on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s economic assessment of health care presented at last week’s Senate Finance...

Started in Health Affairs Blog • 1 month ago • 0 responses
Tags: all categories, blog, cost, policy, politics