About the Forum & Disclaimer

ABOUT THE FORUM

The Altarum Health Policy Forum is a weekly journal for debate and discussion about health care and health policy. With insightful posts from some of the most respected authorities in the field of health care policy and research, the Health Policy Forum provides the evidence-based commentary and analysis you need to break through the rhetoric and focus on the real health care issues facing our nation.

New content is published each Tuesday and Thursday morning, and readers can subscribe to e-mail alerts notifying them of new posts. New content is also available via Facebook and Twitter. Tuesdays feature a regular group of columnists, offering their own unique perspective on today’s most pressing health policy issues. Tuesdays also include the Health Policy Forum’s own original reporting, providing in-depth coverage of issues in health policy from some of the field’s most seasoned journalists. And on Thursdays, we offer opinion essays from leaders in the health policy and advocacy community, with regular essays from Trust For America’s Health, The SCAN Foundation, KaBOOM!, Wendy Lynch Consulting, policymakers, and Altarum’s own researchers and scholars.

The Health Policy Forum is a product of Altarum Institute, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit health care research and consulting organization. As an institute dedicated to improving human health, Altarum encourages open conversation about the many challenges in health care today. The Health Policy Forum enables us to host a public forum where issues and opinions can be discussed, considered, and commented upon in a neutral setting.

For more information on the Health Policy Forum, reprints of postings, or to suggest a topic or submit a posting, please contact Health Policy Forum Editor Jonathan Orr at jonathan.orr@altarum.org, or 703-575-1200.

REPUBLICATION

All content on the Health Policy Forum may be republished for free without permission from Altarum Institute. To reuse content, simply copy and paste the content from our website. All reuse and republication of our content must properly credit the Health Policy Forum and provide a link (when published electronically) or URL address (when reused in print format) to the source of the content on the Health Policy Forum. Proper attribution should be provided at the beginning or end of the article: “Originally published in the Altarum Health Policy Forum.”

DISCLAIMER

Submissions from those outside Altarum are welcomed, but are subject to our submission policy. As an interactive forum, we also welcome comments to any posting on the site. Please see each individual posting for instructions on how to comment. Altarum Institute reserves the right to refuse publication or edit all submissions and comments to the Health Policy Forum.

All postings to the Forum (whether from employees or those outside the Institute) represent the views of the individual authors or outside organizations and do not necessarily represent the position, interests, strategy, or opinions of Altarum Institute. “Viewpoints,” “Columns,” “Views and Opinions,” and “Special Contributor” blog postings are intended to allow non-Altarum Institute authors to pose their own opinions and policy positions in the realm of health care and health policy.

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The Health Policy Forum, including any content, is not generated to make money. Information included is not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, or anyone or thing. Altarum is not responsible, and will not be held liable, for any Information posted on the blog, including translation, interpretation, bad grammar or punctuation, nor for the laws which may be broken in the United States or the blogger’s country of origin through the blogger’s comments’ content, implication, or intent. The content of this blog may contain materials and marks that are protected by U.S. or other copyright and trademark law and may not be distributed, republished, reproduced, displayed or sold without the prior written authorization of the blogger.

Altarum is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. No posting should be considered an endorsement by Altarum of individual candidates, political parties, opinions, or policy positions.