Health Affairs

In today’s post I have pulled together a few items showing some foundation efforts in two areas: bioethics and environmental health. Bioethics The Arizona Bioethics Network is being relaunched. Saint Luke’s Health Initiatives (SLHI), a public foundation in Phoenix, is providing core funding. The network is “being reconfigured as a community of practice focused on ethical... Read the rest of this entry »

Should everyone be required to have health insurance? The short answer is no. There is nothing that can be achieved with a mandate to buy health insurance that cannot be better achieved by a carefully designed system of tax subsidies. Beyond that, a requirement that everyone obtain insurance (as the new health reform law dictates)... Read the rest of this entry »

Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors, which describes itself as “one of the leading philanthropy services firms supporting the efforts of individual, family, institutional and corporate philanthropists,” held a teleconference this week (on 4 May 2010) on “What Health Care Reform Means for Philanthropy.” Grantmakers In Health and CCM Family Advisors cosponsored the event. Listen to a... Read the rest of this entry »

Editor’s Note: Other posts by Timothy Jost analyze regulations implementing provisions of the recently passed health reform legislation governing standards for tax-exempt hospitals, young adult coverage and the small employer tax credit. Although the dust has hardly settled from the enactment of landmark health care reform legislation in late March, and dark mutterings of repeal or defunding continue,... Read the rest of this entry »

Today, the May 2010 issue of Health Affairs, including a new GrantWatch Outcomes column, was released. This issue, which is chockfull of information at more than 300 pages, has the theme “Reinventing Primary Care.” GrantWatch Outcomes also focuses on primary care; it discusses results of projects funded by foundations around the United States. For example,... Read the rest of this entry »

Bold changes are needed in how the United States delivers and pays for primary care if the key goals of national health reform are to be achieved, according to the May issue of Health Affairs. This thematic issue of the journal, released today at a National Press Club briefing, examines the crisis facing the U.S. primary care system... Read the rest of this entry »

A roundtable on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and health reform — featuring Bob Berenson, Tom Scully, Gail Wilensky, and Bruce Vladeck — was the most-read Health Affairs Blog post for April. Also on the list were posts on Don Berwick, President Obama’s nominee to head CMS, as well as pieces on self-directed care, health... Read the rest of this entry »

In March 2010, Congress enacted substantial health reform measures intended to increase access to affordable insurance, reduce the number of uninsured people, and reform both the health insurance market and the health care delivery system. The lion’s share of these reforms will take effect in 2014. However, some reforms go into effect well before that... Read the rest of this entry »