Health Affairs

President Obama has committed to continue the health reform discussion. Attend the National Health Policy Conference, sponsored by AcademyHealth and Health Affairs,  to hear first hand from administration officials, congressional representatives, state officials and other policy experts about where we go from here. The conference takes place Monday February 8 and Tuesday February 9 in... Read the rest of this entry »

The promise of modern information and communications technologies, often dubbed e-health, to transform health care in developing nations is a central focus of the February 2010 edition of Health Affairs, published today. As these nations struggle to address seemingly intractable health care issues, global experts discuss the potential role of e-health, covering urgent issues such as the... Read the rest of this entry »

Editor’s Note: In the aftermath of President Obama’s State of the Union address, what is the state of health reform? Where do we go from here? In the post below, Timothy Jost addresses these questions. In other posts, Henry Aaron of the Brookings Institution and Joseph Antos of the American Enterprise Institute examine the same issues. The comments... Read the rest of this entry »

Editor’s Note: In the aftermath of President Obama’s State of the Union address, what is the state of health reform? Where do we go from here? In the post below, Henry Aaron of the Brookings Institution addresses these questions. See also other posts on the same issues from Joseph Antos of the American Enterprise Institute and Timothy Jost... Read the rest of this entry »