Health Affairs

The most-read Health Affairs Blog post for January was Tim Jost’s examination of the first set of briefs filed before the Supreme Court in the litigation over the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. The full top-ten list for the month also includes Jerald Winakur’s post on disruptions experienced by many patients during care transitions and Mila Kofman’s post on new rules designed to fight insurance scams that use ERISA as a shield.

Also on the list: Elaine Besancon and Sachin Jain’s vignette illustrating the hazards of hand-written records, James Rickert’s post on physician-centered care, and Leonard Zwelling and Eugenie Kleinerman’s post on bringing adolescents and young adults into cancer research. The full list with links appears below.
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1. Health Reform Briefs: The Minimum-Coverage Requirement And Other Issues
   by Timothy Jost
2. Slow Growth In Health Spending And Utilization Continues
   by Chris Fleming
3. A New Federal Push To Increase Health Literacy
   by Chris Fleming
4. Why Meaningful Use Of EHRs Matters: A Field Report
   by Elaine Besancon and Sachin Jain
5. The Transition Abyss
   by Jerald Winakur
6. The Proposed MEWA Rules: Cracking Down On Health Insurance Scams
   by Mila Kofman
7. The Diabetes Threat: Can It Be Contained?
   by Chris Fleming
8. Young People With Diabetes Fare Worse Educationally, Financially
   by Chris Fleming
9. Patient-Centered Care: What It Means And How To Get There
   by James Rickert
10. Adolescents And Young Adults: Bringing A Neglected Group Into Cancer Research
    by Leonard Zwelling and Eugenie Kleinerman

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