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Health IT: The Time Is Now

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Americans need and deserve health information technology (IT). As the chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications Inc. and the only business representative on a federal commission to develop a strategy for health care IT standards, I have spent considerable time over the past several years promoting this technological necessity.  
In addition, Verizon helped found an unprecedented, […]

CHILD HEALTH: Time To Stop Bickering And Get To Work

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Just when it looked as if the debate over the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) couldn’t get any more agonizing, some of the same folks who brought us the devastating RAND 55 percent study four years ago are back with the dismal news that children, on average, receive recommended treatment in only 46.5 percent […]

CHILDREN: SCHIP, Schools, And Access

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Policy debates about reauthorizing and expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and its related Medicaid programs for kids are about providing access for poor kids to health insurance. School-based health care is about reaching kids where they spend half or more of each weekday. The larger issue in creating high-quality health care accessible […]

REFORM: The Edwards Health Plan and the Return of Community Rating

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Community rating, once the hallmark of health insurance in the United States, has been in accelerated decline since the 1980s. For the past few years, a fundamentally opposite notion of insurance, that of individual health savings accounts has been all the rage. The concept of consumer-driven health care–making consumers more aware of the actual costs […]

PHYSICIANS AND HOSPITALS: Can They Cooperate To Control Costs?

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Elliott Fisher and colleagues in their provocative paper published online December 5 validated an approach to quantifying the clinical and economic performance of physician communities clustered statistically around hospitals. Fisher describes the so-called extended hospital medical staff as “hospital-associated multispecialty group practices” or “virtual organizations.” While some physician markets do indeed function as “communities,” with […]

HOSPITALS AND PHYSICIANS: Bob Berenson, Elliott Fisher And Gail Wilensky Debate Policy Proposals

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

On Wednesday, Dec. 6, Health Affairs hosted a conference call among the authors of the primary papers in its Dec. 5 Web Exclusive package on hospital-physician relations:
Chris Fleming (communications manager, Health Affairs): You all wrote very interesting papers for our package on hospital-physician relations, and I thought I would start things out by just asking, […]

PUBLIC HEALTH: How To Be A Healthy Society

Monday, November 20th, 2006

American Public Health Association executive director Georges Benjamin spoke with Health Affairs deputy editor Parmeeth Atwal at the APHA annual meeting earlier this month in Boston about the meeting’s human rights theme, the association’s “Get Ready” program, and the future direction of public health.
Atwal: I note that in this month’s issue of the American Journal […]

Why Health Affairs Is Launching A Blog

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

I am pleased to announce that after twenty-five years as a bimonthly print journal and six years in online publishing, Health Affairs has entered the blogosphere as a new means of engaging readers in the health policy debate. The journal is all about an ongoing dialogue on health policy issues of concern to a diverse […]


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