health reform

Confusion in Relation Between States and Federal Law Instrumental in Tragedy

As I have read and heard that people want to try and deny us the right to purchase firearms in view of the recent massacre in Virginia but the way I read the following article that we have laws in...

Who Speaks For The Health Care Consumer?

It is no great stretch to allow that “consumers” may have an important role to play in health economics. After all, it was a market response by premium payers that forced the insurance industry to...

Beyond The Triple Aim: Integrating The Nonmedical Sectors

Editor’s Note: In a paper in the recently released May/June issue of Health Affairs, Donald Berwick, John Whittington, and Tom Nolan of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement lay out a strategy for...

Achieving The Triple Aim: The Central Role Of Universal Coverage

Editor’s Note: In a paper in the recently released May/June issue of Health Affairs, Donald Berwick, John Whittington, and Tom Nolan of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement lay out a strategy for...

Over The Rainbow: Reform And Reality

If you’re just reading the headlines, jobs and the economy have displaced access to affordable health insurance as the electorate’s top domestic concern with six months to go until Election Day. But...

Health Policy Blogging News

Jason Shafrin of the blog, Healthcare Economist, hosts this week’s Health Wonk Review. He’s written the biweekly round-up of the best of health policy blogging in “newspaper”...

A Look At Holland’s Reforms Featured In New Health Affairs

The Netherlands, which combines mandatory universal health insurance with competition among private health insurers, has been frequently cited as a possible model for reform in the United States. You...

Blendon, Laszewski, And Rovner On Health Reform In The 2008 Election

Editor’s Note: In connection with the publication of its May/June issue, a thematic issue on health reform, Health Affairs organized a May 5 conference call on the role of health reform in the...

A Look At Health Reform In The 2008 Election

By proposing to move away from the employer-based health care system to one emphasizing the individual market, Sen. John McCain (AZ), the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has set the...

Health Affairs Briefing: Health Reform & The 2008 Election

What role will the issue of health care reform play in the 2008 presidential election? How would the candidates control rising health costs and cover the uninsured, and how will the economic downturn...

Indiana: Health Care Reform Amidst Colliding Values

In May 2007, Indiana enacted comprehensive health reform in the form of the Indiana Check-Up Plan and its centerpiece, the Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP). After intense negotiations, the Centers for...