Hospital Costs And Quality: Ashish Jha’s View
Editor’s Note: Health Affairs has recently published two studies looking at the association between hospital costs and quality. The first, by Ashish Jha and coauthors, appeared in our May-June issue,...
View ArticleHealth Reform: Almost Here?
“Dare we say it; reform is actually possible, perhaps more possible than at any time since 1964,” writes Health Wonk Review host and cofounder, Joe Paduda. He focuses today’s terrific health policy...
View ArticleNurse Shortage Eases Under Recession
A new study published today in Health Affairs finds that the decade-long nurse shortage is easing, or even ending, partly as a result of the continuing recession. Study author Peter Buerhaus of the...
View ArticleBeware The Siren Song Of New GME: Graduate Medical Education And Health Reform
Federal support for graduate medical education (GME) training positions has been capped for more than a decade and it is no secret that the country’s teaching hospitals are restive. They want “more...
View ArticleGeography And The Keys To Health Care Reform
Editor’s Note: In the post below, Amitabh Chandra responds to criticisms of the Dartmouth Atlas and offers his vision of the lessons of the Dartmouth findings on variations in health care costs and...
View ArticleThe Policy Lessons Of Health Care Cost Variations: A Roundtable With Bob...
Editor’s Note: Below is the transcript of a Health Affairs Blog Roundtable on Atul Gawande’s New Yorker article on McAllen, Texas, and variations in health care costs. The roundtable used the article...
View ArticlePros And Cons Of A Public Insurance Plan
Should Americans be able to enroll in a newly created, publicly administered health insurance option as the nation works to expand health coverage? That question is at the center of the current health...
View ArticleExpanding Coverage for Low-income Americans: Medicaid Or Health Insurance...
While the most visible national health reform fight at the moment focuses on a public plan option for people covered through health insurance exchanges (or gateways), a quieter debate is brewing over...
View ArticleThe RUC’s Record: Backing Primary Care
Editor’s Note: Dr. Patchin wrote the blog post below in her official capacity as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association. Health Affairs recently published an interview with...
View ArticleHealth Affairs Briefing: Delivering On Global Health
Getting “the right care to the right patient at the right time” is hard enough in highly developed countries like the United States. In low- and middle-income countries, the challenges are only...
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