Health Affairs

Here in DC we’re bracing for the storm of the century — snow storm, that is.  What better time to catch up on some health policy reading? We list here the top 10 most-read posts from January on Health Affairs Blog. Topics cover health reform, health care costs, the mammography guidelines controversy, and more. And don’t forget the Top 20 most-read Health Affairs articles from 2009. They’re still free access for one more week.

Here’s the list from Health Affairs Blog for January:

1. Health Care Reform: State Winners And Losers
   by Claudia Schur and Marc Berk
2. Would Reform Bills Control Costs? A Response To Atul Gawande
   by Alain C. Enthoven
3. An Inconvenient Truth: The Health Care Cost Curve Is Already Bent
   by Jeff Goldsmith
4. The Grandparents Corps: A New Primary Care Model
   by Arthur Garson, Arthur, Margaret Whitehead, Tracy Buni, Catherine Sommers, and Karen Rheuban
5. Recession Slowed Health Spending Growth, CMS Analysts Say In Health Affairs
   by Chris Fleming
6. The Revised Senate Health Reform Bill: Cost Control And Other Aspects
   by Timothy Jost
7. Health Affairs Examines Long-Term Services And Supports
   by Chris Fleming
8. Don’t Handicap The Reform: Protecting Integrated Care Systems
   by David Balto
9. The Mammography Guidelines And Evidence-Based Medicine
   by Gail R. Wilensky
10. Senate Approves Health Reform Bill; What’s Next?
    by Jane Hiebert-White 

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