Health Affairs

The most-read post of September on the Health Affairs Blog was by Linda Aiken on Pennsylvania’s new legislation which focuses on tapping nurses and other health professionals to address health reform issues. Aiken, the Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor of Nursing and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, also has the most-read blog post for the year (on myth-busting the nurse shortage) on Health Affairs Blog. Also of note, she is one of the original journal authors to be published in Health Affairs. She wrote 25 years ago in the Fall 1982 issue [free-access article] when the nurse labor market was at a different point in the pendulum swing: “The national shortage of nurses which grew to crisis proportions in many communities in the late 1970s has subsided.” 

Back on Health Affairs Blog, other most-read posts of the month focused on the vulnerable and uninsured and included the ongoing State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) reauthorization debate. Continued comments on these and any other posts are always welcome. To receive immediately updated headlines from the Health Affairs Blog, you can grab our blog RSS feed for your reader, or you may syndicate the feed on your Web site (all blog content is free access). Or you may sign up for e-mail alerts. 

1. PENNSYLVANIA: Workforce Policy Solutions To Health Care Reform
   by Linda Aiken
2. THE UNINSURED: 47 Million Hostages — Our Dysfunctional Health Policy Process
   by Jeff Goldsmith
3. SCHIP: The Administration’s New Directive
   by Cindy Mann and Jocelyn Guyer
4. SCHIP: August Round-Up
   by Sarah Dine
5. INSURANCE: Big Jump In Number Of Uninsured Americans
   by Jane Hiebert-White
6. SCHIP: Is Increasing The Tobacco Tax To Expand Coverage A Good Idea?
   by Leonard Burman, Kim Rueben, and Genevieve Kenney
7. REFORM: Is Business For Real?
   by Rob Cunningham
8. SCHIP: A Falsely Politicized Debate
   by Sara Rosenbaum
9. BLOG: Top 10 Health Affairs Blog Posts For August: Preparing For The SCHIP Showdown
   by Jane Hiebert-White
10. SCHIP: September Showdown
    by Grace-Marie Turner

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