For some of the best recent health policy blogging, check out last week’s “Halloween” edition of the Health Wonk Review. Among the articles highlighted is a piece from the Health Affairs Blog by Arnold Milstein and coauthors on replicating higher-value care models.

The latest edition of the Health Wonk Review is up. This edition is hosted by Henry Stern at InsureBlog, and as always it contains the best in health policy blogging. As an added bonus, Henry provides a couple of puns concerning the flu that elicit groans, which for puns is the equivalent of rousing applause.

Last week’s edition of the Health Wonk Review celebrates the nation’s current twin pastimes: baseball and health policy. Highlighted by host Brady Augustine at medicaidfirstaid are Health Affairs Blog pieces by Alain Enthoven and Karl Kronebusch and many other posts.

A new edition of the Health Wonk Review today rounds up health policy blogposts on health reform, reactions to President Obama’s speech, and more. Rich Elmore of Healthcare Technology News serves as host.

Health reform proposals and an examination of what’s working to control health care costs dominated the most-read posts on Health Affairs Blog in August. Additional commenting is always welcome.

A Modest Proposal On Payment Reform
by Uwe Reinhardt
Low-Cost Health Quality Care In America
by John Iglehart
Obesity Spending Estimated at 147 Billion Annually
by Chris Fleming
Building A Health Marketplace That Works
by [...]

A post on the short-term easing of the nurse shortage and Uwe Reinhardt’s ”Modest Proposal On Payment Reform” top the Health Affairs Blog most-read list for July. The list also includes several posts addressing the ongoing health reform debate. Additional comment is always welcome.

“Dare we say it; reform is actually possible, perhaps more possible than at any time since 1964,” writes Health Wonk Review host and cofounder, Joe Paduda. He focuses today’s terrific health policy blog round-up on the prospect for reform and leads off  with Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) on why reform is possible. Paduda then follows [...]

Merton Bernstein’s post on a single-payer approach to health reform tops the Health Affairs Blog most-read list for May. Top 10 posts also debate the public plan option now consuming Congress. Additional commenting is always welcome.

Propaganda and Prejudice Distort The Health Reform Debate
by Merton Bernstein
The Public Plan: Not Worth The Risks
by Jeff Goldsmith
Beyond The Public [...]

This week’s Health Wonk Review, the roving digest of the best of health policy blogging, features new posts on health reform, including the public plan option, health care costs, health IT, and more. This week’s host is Tinker Ready of Boston Health News.

The recent confusion surrounding the health care industry’s statement about reducing the growth in health care costs by 1.5 percentage points annually — it is a goal, the industry clarified, not a year-by-year target — underscores the need to put mechanisms in place to ensure that the industry’s spending growth target is met. Nonetheless, I [...]

Health reform tops the most-read list for April on the Health Affairs Blog. A series of posts on health IT looked at building the new technology into the delivery system, effect on patient-physician relationships, and more. Additional commenting is always welcome.

No Direction Home: A Primary Care Physician Questions The Medical Home Model by Caroline Poplin
Health [...]

The newest edition of the biweekly Health Wonk Review is up at Bob Laszewski’s substantive blog, Health Care Marketplace and Policy Review. This round-up of the best of health policy blogging includes posts on Medicare payment, health IT, health care in India, and more.

Health IT has a heavy showing in this month’s most-read posts on Health Affairs Blog. Physician Caroline Poplin’s questioning of the medical home model, posted in late March, is generating debate. And a post from last May on Indiana’s health reform effort still makes the top 10 — and that’s no April Fool.

The Attack On [...]

The current edition of the Health Wonk Review, the biweekly round-up of health policy blogging, is hosted by Jaan Sidorov of the Disease Management Care Blog. His post-inaugural HWR highlights many interesting posts on the SCHIP votes and more. And today, Sidorov highlights the newly published perspective by Louise Russell on the cost of prevention from the current [...]

As we close out 2008, here is a look back at the Health Affairs Blog posts that attracted the most readers this year. Analysis of health reform plans from the presidential candidates and a look ahead to policy options under an Obama Administration garnered the most attention. If you missed any of these posts, happy [...]

A new edition of the Health Wonk Review posted this week highlights a round-up of health policy bloggers on prospects for reform in an Obama administration, the intersection of health care and the economy, and more. Vince Kuraitis of e-CareManagement Blog, offers a Dragnet-style “just the facts” spin for his turn at hosting the biweekly [...]

Health reform ideas and policy proposals for President-elect Barack Obama to consider topped the most-read list on Health Affairs Blog in November. Jeff Goldsmith lays out three options for how health reform might proceed. John Iglehart looks at the policy process an Obama administration might take. And John Goodman’s recent post has generated heated commenting. [...]

Time to catch up on health policy blogging highlights? The latest Health Wonk Review offers a post-election round-up hosted by Louise Norris of The Colorado Health Insurance Insider blog. Earlier, David Harlow of HealthBlawg took a turn at hosting the HWR and highlighted some terrific posts on health spending and the economy.

Health reform plan critiques from Obama and McCain advisors topped the list of most-read posts on Health Affairs Blog for October. Additional commenting is welcome. To stay on top of new postings, sign up for email or RSS feed alerts.

Health Plan Scoring That Runs Out Of Bounds
by Thomas Miller
The McCain Critique: Out Of Touch And [...]

It’s the morning after the final presidential debate. Today Joe Paduda (not Joe the Plumber, but a founder of the Health Wonk Review) weighs in with a substantive round-up of what the health policy blogs are saying about the election, the economy, and the presidential candidates’ health reform plans. Today’s terrific edition of the Health Wonk Review is [...]