Health Affairs

Editor’s Note: For more on the controversy over taxing high-cost health plans, see a “Cadillacs Or Ambulances? The Senate Tax On ‘Excessive Benefits, a Health Affairs Blog post by Joseph White and Timothy Jost published today. The Senate Democratic health plan includes a provision, backed by the Obama administration, that would tax some “Cadillac” health plans to pay... Read the rest of this entry »

Responding to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and tackling so-called neglected tropical diseases are the focus of the November/December 2009 edition of Health Affairs, released today. The articles, by leading global health experts from around the world, show that although these challenges differ dramatically, rising to meet them could save millions of lives. Health Affairs will highlight the... Read the rest of this entry »

A new study published yesterday in Health Affairs finds that hospitals that disproportionately care for low-income patients are falling behind in adopting electronic health records (EHRs). This is the first paper to use national data comparing EHR adoption between acute care providers primarily caring for the poor and those serving more general populations. Ashish Jha of... Read the rest of this entry »

The November/December 2009 edition of Health Affairs focuses on key global health challenges, including tackling so-called “neglected diseases” such as trachoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide.  Key lawmakers, leading health policy experts, including former NIH Director Elias Zerhouni, M.D.; and industry officials have been invited to discuss the appropriate strategies and policies for... Read the rest of this entry »

As Congress and the Administration debate health care reform, it is instructive to look at the Massachusetts model, now in its third year. Health Affairs today released a study of workers in the Bay State who were interviewed in fall 2008 about their employer-sponsored health care coverage, following up on similar surveys in 2006 and... Read the rest of this entry »

Last year Congress passed legislation prohibiting group health plans that provide mental health coverage from imposing stricter limits on mental health treatment than for other medical or surgical care. This marked a historical milestone for mental health care, burying the unscientific distinction between “mental” and “physical” illness. But although progress has been made in mental... Read the rest of this entry »

On Thursday, May 7, please join Health Affairs and the SCAN Foundation for “Long Term Care In America: The Agenda For Health Reform.” Expanding access to the uninsured and restraining the rate of health cost growth are critical objectives of health reform. But given the disability and long-term care challenges facing the nation, these, too,... Read the rest of this entry »

Editor’s Note: Health Affairs is proud to be a media partner for the Health 2.0 Meets Ix conference, which will take place April 22 and 23 in Boston, Massachusetts. As part of the lead-up to the conference, which will focus on the interplay between the Health 2.0 and information therapy (Ix) movements, Health Affairs Blog and other participating... Read the rest of this entry »