CANCER: Bridging The Gap Between Basic Research And Health Policy
Last week, Health Affairs published three interviews [one-week free access] that I conducted with leading cancer oncologists. As Donald Kennedy, editor-in-chief of Science, and I wrote in an...
View ArticleHEALTH IT: Supporting Health-Center IT Investments Through Medicare And Medicaid
Editor’s Note: Lammot du Pont, and Helen Pfister of Manatt Health Solutions are also coauthors of this post. The post is an edited version of a longer article written with guidance and support from the...
View ArticleHEALTH IT: Time To Link Health Care Reimbursement To IT Adoption?
Will health information technology (IT) be the silver bullet to create value in the health care sector? Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) discusses...
View ArticleBLOGS: CBO Director Orszag Launches Blog
Yesterday, Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag entered the blogosphere. Orszag says he will use his blog to talk about CBO’s work and the analysts behind it. Orszag’s blogging debut has...
View ArticleHEALTH REFORM: Should It Include An Individual Mandate?
A recent Health Affairs article by Columbia University’s Sherry Glied and coauthors is figuring prominently in the debate over whether to require individuals to purchase health insurance as part of the...
View ArticleHEALTH IT: New Players Renew Pursuit Of Health Information Consumers
Galaxies ago, in a decade far, far away, genius entrepreneur Jim Clark launched Healtheon on the premise that one giant Internet portal could unscramble all of health care’s tangled lines of...
View ArticleBLOG: Health Wonk Review Sheds Light On Campaign Trail And Beyond
David Harlow has posted a terrific Health Wonk Review over on HealthBlawg. He takes his turn at hosting the biweekly round-up of the best of health policy blogging and gives the write-up a “holiday...
View ArticleSCHIP: Not-So-Happy New Year
Perhaps the signal event in federal health policy for 2007 is the failure to reauthorize the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). On Wednesday, December 13, President Bush vetoed the...
View ArticleMENTAL HEALTH PARITY: Researchers Stress Importance Of Out-Of-Network Benefits
Congress is on the verge of passing legislation mandating that health plans cover mental health (MH) and substance abuse treatment to the same extent that they cover other medical and surgical...
View ArticleHEALTH REFORM: Rich Vs. Poor States: Arkansas Surgeon General On How Income...
Editor’s Note: Economists Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation and Henry Aaron of the Brookings Institution have different worldviews when it comes to how best to allocate scarce health care...
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