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	<title>Health Affairs Blog &#187; 2010 &#187; March</title>
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		<title>Moving Toward a Robust Comparative Effectiveness Research Enterprise</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/03/30/moving-toward-a-robust-comparative-effectiveness-research-enterprise/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=moving-toward-a-robust-comparative-effectiveness-research-enterprise</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Mechanic</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Comparative Effectiveness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor’s Note: Most health policy analysts believe that better evidence about quality and value, obtained through comparative effectiveness research (CER), can drive better clinical decision making and could potentially slow the rate of growth in health care spending.  But the success of any national CER initiatives will depend on how evidence is developed, whether it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Rules From The Heart Of Power: How Did Obama Do?</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/03/29/eight-rules-from-the-heart-of-power-how-did-obama-do/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=eight-rules-from-the-heart-of-power-how-did-obama-do</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Goldsmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last fall, David Blumenthal and James Morone published a timely history of the presidential handling of health reform from Franklin Roosevelt onward, called The Heart of Power (see my review in Health Affairs). At the end of the book, they offered eight rules for presidential management of health reform distilled from the experience of the past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CMS Nominee Berwick On Empowering Patients And Improving Quality</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/03/28/cms-nominee-berwick-on-empowering-patients-and-improving-quality/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cms-nominee-berwick-on-empowering-patients-and-improving-quality</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don Berwick, President Obama’s reported nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has been a leading voice for improving clinical quality and empowering patients, themes he has discussed in the pages of Health Affairs. Patient-Centered Care. In &#8220;What &#8216;Patient-Centered&#8217; Should Mean: Confessions Of An Extremist,&#8221; a Health Affairs Web Exclusive article published last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Displaying Calorie Counts Lead To Healthier Eating?</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/03/24/does-displaying-calorie-counts-lead-to-healthier-eating/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=does-displaying-calorie-counts-lead-to-healthier-eating</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the lesser-known provisions of the newly passed health reform legislation will require restaurant chains to post calorie counts on menus and drive-through signs. Will people consume fewer calories as a result? Here&#8217;s what Brian Elbel and coauthors reported in Health Affairs last year about the effect of a calorie-count display law already in effect in New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Would Health Reform Affect The Uninsured?</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/03/24/how-would-health-reform-affect-the-uninsured/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-would-health-reform-affect-the-uninsured</link>
		<comments>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/03/24/how-would-health-reform-affect-the-uninsured/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthaffairs.org/blog/?p=4446</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an appearance on the PBS NewsHour last night, Health Affairs Editor in Chief Susan Dentzer broke down the composition of America&#8217;s uninsured population and discussed how health reform is expected to extend coverage to 32 million uninsured people. Dentzer described the planned expansion of Medicaid and the creation of state-based exchanges for individuals and small businesses that would feature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Reform Is Here: What Happens Now?</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/03/23/health-reform-is-here-what-happens-now/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=health-reform-is-here-what-happens-now</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthaffairs.org/blog/?p=4436</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the President has signed health reform legislation, what happens next? Health Affairs editor-in-chief Susan Dentzer addressed that question in an appearance last night on the PBS NewsHour. In an interview with Jeffrey Brown, Dentzer discussed reform&#8217;s impact on the private insurance market, touching on how the new law will affect both insurers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private-Payer Hospital Profits Can Lead To Negative Medicare Margins</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/03/23/private-payer-hospital-profits-can-lead-to-negative-medicare-margins/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=private-payer-hospital-profits-can-lead-to-negative-medicare-margins</link>
		<comments>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/03/23/private-payer-hospital-profits-can-lead-to-negative-medicare-margins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an article published March 18 by Health Affairs, researchers at the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission challenge a common assumption about Medicare patients and hospital profit margins. The study finds that hospitals with strong market power lose money on Medicare patients because these hospitals tend to have high cost structures. In contrast, hospitals less able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion Agreement Clears Way For Health Reform (Updated)</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/03/21/abortion-agreement-clears-way-for-health-reform/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=abortion-agreement-clears-way-for-health-reform</link>
		<comments>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/03/21/abortion-agreement-clears-way-for-health-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthaffairs.org/blog/?p=4386</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The passage of health reform legislation, which once seemed inevitable, then seemed far less likely with the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts, now seems close to inevitable again. By agreeing to issue an executive order continuing current policy against the use of public funds for abortion, the White House won the support of Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All High-Risk Pools Are Not Equal: Examining The Minnesota Model</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/03/19/all-high-risk-pools-are-not-equal-examining-the-minnesota-model/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=all-high-risk-pools-are-not-equal-examining-the-minnesota-model</link>
		<comments>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/03/19/all-high-risk-pools-are-not-equal-examining-the-minnesota-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Burke</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthaffairs.org/blog/?p=4359</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As House Democrats are attempting to move a health reform bill forward this week, it is worth noting that at least one part of the plan before Congress has support from Republicans, many Democrats in the House and Senate, and President Obama: high-risk pools for people with expensive or preexisting medical conditions. High-risk pools can help hard-to-insure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Health Care Reform Reconciliation Bill (Updated)</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/03/19/the-health-care-reform-reconciliation-bill/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-health-care-reform-reconciliation-bill</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy Jost</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[**An update added the afternoon of March 20 at the end of this post provides a brief summation of the manager&#8217;s amendment to the health reform reconciliation bill being considered by the House.** The House began its last step in the health reform legislative process early in the afternoon of Thursday, March 18, when it [...]]]></description>
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