Jason Shafrin of the blog, Healthcare Economist, hosts this week’s Health Wonk Review. He’s written the biweekly round-up of the best of health policy blogging in “newspaper” format. It’s a great quick scan of what’s being debated in the health business and policy blogs, with Health Affairs Blog providing the lead story on health reform and the ‘08 […]

The Health Wonk Review, a biweekly round-up of the best of health policy blogging, is hosted today by Jon Coppelman at Worker’s Comp Insider. Topics range from Medicare Advantage plans to single-payer systems; pharmaceutical industry to AIDS in Africa. Worker’s Comp Insider is a five-year-old blog (very senior in blogosphere terms!) that looks at consumer […]

To round out a week of “most-read” lists (top 10 Health Affairs Blog posts of 2007 and of January-February 2008), we are pleased to announce the most-read Health Affairs journal articles published in 2007. All articles below are free access for 2 weeks—through March 20, 2008.

“Health Spending Projections Through 2016: Modest Changes Obscure Part D’s […]

Comparing health systems, the growth of U.S. health spending, and proposals to fix Medicare physician payment topped the January-February 2008 most-read list for the Health Affairs Blog. Sign up for email or RSS feed alerts to stay on top of new postings. Additional commenting always welcome.

U.S. Worst At Beating Death From Treatable Illness
by Jane Hiebert-White
HEALTH […]

For your Leap Day reading pleasure, we offer here the list of Top 10 most-read Health Affairs Blog Posts of 2007. Next up—Top 10 for January-February 2008. Additional commenting always welcome.

INSURANCE: A Closer Look At HSAs
by Uwe Reinhardt
REFORM: Musings On SiCKO, July 4th, and Visions of America
by Sarah Dine
HEALTH REFORM: Redefining Health Care
by Michael E. […]

Today’s new Health Wonk Review rounds up posts from the political (would an Obama presidency energize young adults to demand entitlement reform?) to the analytical (John Wennberg’s practice variation work, the Medicare SGR debate, and more). This latest compendium of the best of health policy blogging is hosted today by Merrill Goozner of GoozNews, with great insights from […]

A new Health Wonk Review posted today provides some “serious wonkery” from the President’s State of the Union to presidential campaign politics and health reform. David Williams of Health Business blog is the host of this edition of the biweekly roundup of the best of health policy blogging. He offers a great snapshot and deftly tackles the business […]

Bob Laszewski hosts a terrific Health Wonk Review today on his blog, Health Care Marketplace and Policy Review. Bob’s edition of this biweekly round-up of the best of health policy blogging highlights posts analyzing John McCain’s health reform plan, the reform plans of Democratic presidential candidates, health reforms in California, and more. Lots of timely health policy […]

David Harlow has posted a terrific Health Wonk Review over on HealthBlawg. He takes his turn at hosting the biweekly round-up of the best of health policy blogging and gives the write-up a “holiday lights” twist. He illuminates for readers some great posts on health reform on the campaign trail and beyond.

Yesterday, Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag entered the blogosphere. Orszag says he will use his blog to talk about CBO’s work and the analysts behind it.
Orszag’s blogging debut has been noted widely in other blogs, such as that of fellow economist Brad DeLong. On his blog, economist Greg Mankiw poses this question: ”I wonder: Will Peter Orszag follow […]

Over the past two months, highly read posts on the Health Affairs Blog looked at President Bush’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), a new report from the Congressional Budget Office on health spending trends, analysis of the number of uninsured Americans, and discussion of health reform solutions. Posts with a global […]

The latest edition of the Health Wonk Review–the biweekly roundup of posts from the health policy blogosphere–is now up at Roy Poses’ blog, Health Care Renewal. He defines his blog as “the product of brain-storming by some physicians and health care researchers who wondered why as health care costs inexorably rose, access decreased, and quality remained stagnant.” […]

Hosting the latest Health Wonk Review, Jason Shafrin at the Healthcare Economist highlights two posts as the week’s best. On A Healthy Blog, John McDonough reviews an article suggesting that the RAND health experiment — the “gold standard” for health economics — could be wrong. And on Wachter’s World, Bob Wachter discusses pay-for-performance, observing that 79 percent of physicians believe that P4P […]

Bob Laszewski of Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review hosts a new edition of Cavalcade of Risk today. This round-up of recent blog posts on risk and its management is published every two weeks.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt has recently launched a blog. Today he offers the administration’s view on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) reauthorization bill, which President Bush recently vetoed. 
Sec. Leavitt says that he writes his own posts. So far he’s blogging about once a week. Here’s an excerpt from today’s […]

It’s the morning after President Bush’s veto of the reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). How did a program that started out with such bipartisan support become the health policy wonk equivalent of all-out war? Today’s Health Wonk Review takes a look across the blogosphere for some health policy soul-searching.
Politico blogger Ben […]

The most-read post of September on the Health Affairs Blog was by Linda Aiken on Pennsylvania’s new legislation which focuses on tapping nurses and other health professionals to address health reform issues. Aiken, the Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor of Nursing and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, also has the most-read blog post for […]

Today’s Health Wonk Review leads off with posts around the health policy blogosphere on HillaryCare 2.0. Joe Paduda of Managed Care Matters (and cofounder of HWR) writes a great round-up. Health Affairs Blog hosts the Oct 4 edition, so stay tuned!

Today the Health Wonk Review is hosted by physician blog, The Doctor Weighs In. Brian Klepper writes an entertaining round-up of the best in health policy blogging over the past two weeks.
In other blogosphere news, yesterday’s St. Louis Post Dispatch Business Section offered its list of health blogs to read for a “robust discussion of health care.” […]

Now that it’s September and Congress is back in session, it’s time to prepare for the September policy showdown on reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Last month Health Affairs Blog invited policy experts with wide-ranging views to set out the hot-button issues–such as the tobacco tax funding mechanism–and explain the politics. These posts […]