http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/rss HealthPolicyForum.org RSS Feed - brought to you by Altarum Institute en Old and Sick in America: There’s No One In Charge http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/old-and-sick-america-there-s-no-one-charge <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/caroline-poplin-md"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/caroline-poplin.jpg" width="120" height="142" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/caroline-poplin-md">Caroline Poplin, M.D., J.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Lawyer, Physician, and Health Policy Analyst</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><em>This is the first in a two-part series.</em></p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/old-and-sick-america-there-s-no-one-charge" rel="tag" title="Old and Sick in America: There’s No One In Charge">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Old and Sick in America: There’s No One In Charge</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/old-and-sick-america-there-s-no-one-charge#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/854#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:00:17 +0000 Marijka Lischak 854 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Playful, Active and Healthy Cities: A New Partnership Between Let’s Move and Playful City USA http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/playful-active-and-healthy-cities-new-partnership-between-let-s-move-and-playful-city-usa <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/danielle-marshall"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/danielle_marshall-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Danielle Marshall" title="Danielle Marshall" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/danielle-marshall">Danielle Marshall</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Community Engagement, KaBOOM!</div></div></div></div></div><div class="field-item odd"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/mj-kurs-lasky"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/MJ-Kurs-Lasky_0.jpg" width="120" height="142" alt="MJ Kurs-Lasky" title="Playful City USA Manager, KaBOOM!" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/mj-kurs-lasky">MJ Kurs-Lasky</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Playful City USA Manager, KaBOOM!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><em>“Creating more and better playspaces is something that is very important to us. Research shows that recreation improves a person’s physical and emotional well-being. Quality playspaces make recreation more fun.</em></p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/playful-active-and-healthy-cities-new-partnership-between-let-s-move-and-playful-city-usa" rel="tag" title="Playful, Active and Healthy Cities: A New Partnership Between Let’s Move and Playful City USA">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Playful, Active and Healthy Cities: A New Partnership Between Let’s Move and Playful City USA</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/851#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:12:51 +0000 Marijka Lischak 851 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Effective Leadership Improves Care of Older Adults http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/effective-leadership-improves-care-older-adults <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/amy-berman"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/AmyBerman.jpg" width="120" height="150" alt="Amy Berman" title="Senior Program Officer, The John A. Hartford Foundation" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/amy-berman">Amy Berman</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Program Officer, The John A. Hartford Foundation</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Altarum Institute has released a report that highlights the Practice Change Fellows Program’s successful efforts to develop change leaders who spread innovations that improve the health of older adults. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/effective-leadership-improves-care-older-adults" rel="tag" title="Effective Leadership Improves Care of Older Adults">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Effective Leadership Improves Care of Older Adults</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/849#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:00:25 +0000 Marijka Lischak 849 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The Weight of the Nation: Bringing Researchers, Policymakers and the Public Together to Address the Issue http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/bringing-researchers-policymakers-and-public-together-address-weight-nation <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/sarah-lifsey"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Sarah-Lifsey_0.jpg" width="90" height="89" alt="Sarah Lifsey" title="Policy Associate, Altarum Institute" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/sarah-lifsey">Sarah Lifsey</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Policy Associate, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> This year, public health stakeholders have launched three key communication pieces to refocus the problem of obesity. Although these pieces are standalone efforts, they show how powerful coordinated efforts between researchers, local public health professionals and the American public can be. Together, these three pieces can give stakeholders at multiple levels concrete actions they can take to combat the problem of obesity. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/bringing-researchers-policymakers-and-public-together-address-weight-nation" rel="tag" title="The Weight of the Nation: Bringing Researchers, Policymakers and the Public Together to Address the Issue">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The Weight of the Nation: Bringing Researchers, Policymakers and the Public Together to Address the Issue</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/bringing-researchers-policymakers-and-public-together-address-weight-nation#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/843#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:00:52 +0000 Connie Harich 843 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Can You Trust Your Gut? The Importance of Asking Your Audience in Health Communications http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/can-you-trust-your-gut-importance-asking-your-audience-health-communications <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/heather-pierce"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Heather-Pierce-headshot_0.jpg" width="120" height="138" alt="Heather Pierce" title="Director of Strategic Communications, Palladian Partners, Inc." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/heather-pierce">Heather Pierce</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Strategic Communications, Palladian Partners, Inc.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Palladian worked closely with NIDA staff to develop the first-ever, easy-to-read website on drug abuse, designed for adults with low reading literacy (eighth grade or below reading level). </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/can-you-trust-your-gut-importance-asking-your-audience-health-communications" rel="tag" title="Can You Trust Your Gut? The Importance of Asking Your Audience in Health Communications">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Can You Trust Your Gut? The Importance of Asking Your Audience in Health Communications</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/842#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:00:40 +0000 Connie Harich 842 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The Aging Population: An Altarum Health Policy Roundtable Gives Voice to the Challenges of Elder Care http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/speak-altarum-health-policy-roundtable-gives-voice-challenges-elder-care <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/barbara-bryant"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/barbara-bryant.jpg" width="120" height="167" alt="Image of Barbara Bryant" title="Barbary Bryant" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/barbara-bryant">Barbara Bryant</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Publications Manager, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>The Supreme Court’s recent ruling in favor of requiring all American citizens to have health insurance coverage has eliminated much uncertainty over who will have access to health care, but it has not prepared us for a crisis over the availability and cost of health care that is just about</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/speak-altarum-health-policy-roundtable-gives-voice-challenges-elder-care" rel="tag" title="The Aging Population: An Altarum Health Policy Roundtable Gives Voice to the Challenges of Elder Care ">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The Aging Population: An Altarum Health Policy Roundtable Gives Voice to the Challenges of Elder Care </span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/speak-altarum-health-policy-roundtable-gives-voice-challenges-elder-care#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">4 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/837#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:02:57 +0000 Marijka Lischak 837 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org ACA Decision: Moving Ahead on Health Care Transformation http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/aca-decision-moving-ahead-health-care-transformation <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/bruce-allen-chernof-md"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Bruce-Chernof86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Bruce Allen Chernof, M.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/bruce-allen-chernof-md">Bruce Allen Chernof, M.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">President &amp; Chief Executive Officer, The SCAN Foundation</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> It is now time to focus on its robust and effective implementation so that we can all benefit from a care delivery system that puts people, families, and their care needs first. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/aca-decision-moving-ahead-health-care-transformation" rel="tag" title="ACA Decision: Moving Ahead on Health Care Transformation">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about ACA Decision: Moving Ahead on Health Care Transformation</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/835#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:00:45 +0000 Marijka Lischak 835 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Medicaid Expansion, States, and the Affordable Care Act: Red, Blue and Somewhere In Between http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/medicaid-expansion-states-and-affordable-care-act-red-blue-and-somewhere-between <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/holly-korda-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/holly_korda.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Holly Korda, Ph.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/holly-korda-phd">Holly Korda, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Deputy Director for Strategy and Growth, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> If states turn their backs on Medicaid expansion they leave a lot of federal money on the table. They also leave behind many vulnerable, low income constituents—our friends, families and neighbors—who could receive coverage through Medicaid without purchasing private health insurance (to which they may not have affordable, available options). </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/medicaid-expansion-states-and-affordable-care-act-red-blue-and-somewhere-between" rel="tag" title="Medicaid Expansion, States, and the Affordable Care Act: Red, Blue and Somewhere In Between">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Medicaid Expansion, States, and the Affordable Care Act: Red, Blue and Somewhere In Between</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/833#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:40:02 +0000 Marijka Lischak 833 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Patient Safety: We Expect Safety in Food, Toys and Travel. Why Not Medicine? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/we-expect-safety-food-toys-and-travel-why-not-medicine <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Wendy-Lynch-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Wendy Lynch Photo" title="Wendy Lynch" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd">Wendy Lynch, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Given our public interest in safety, one has to wonder how we have become so complacent about preventable illness and injury in medicine. Amazingly, 32 deaths trigger a nationwide recall on melon, but nearly 100,000 annual deaths from hospital infections (more than AIDS, car accidents and breast cancer combined) do not make news. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/we-expect-safety-food-toys-and-travel-why-not-medicine" rel="tag" title="Patient Safety: We Expect Safety in Food, Toys and Travel. Why Not Medicine?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Patient Safety: We Expect Safety in Food, Toys and Travel. Why Not Medicine?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/we-expect-safety-food-toys-and-travel-why-not-medicine#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/831#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:00:00 +0000 Marijka Lischak 831 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Local, State and the Federal Government Must Do More to Prevent Injuries http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/local-state-and-federal-government-must-do-more-prevent-injuries <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/laura-segal"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/laura_segal-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Laura Segal" title="Laura Segal" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/laura-segal">Laura Segal</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Public Affairs, Trust for America&#039;s Health</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> According to a new report, many states and the federal government do not have policies or laws that we know can protect citizens from injury, the leading cause of death for Americans under 44. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/local-state-and-federal-government-must-do-more-prevent-injuries" rel="tag" title="Local, State and the Federal Government Must Do More to Prevent Injuries">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Local, State and the Federal Government Must Do More to Prevent Injuries</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/829#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:44:08 +0000 Marijka Lischak 829 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Affordable Health Insurance: Employers Should Adopt Account-Based Health Plans to Keep Costs Down http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/affordable-health-insurance-employers-should-adopt-account-based-health-plans-keep-costs-down <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/roy-ramthun"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Ramthun.jpg" width="120" height="171" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/roy-ramthun">Roy Ramthun</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">President, HSA Consulting Services</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><em>This is the second in a two-part series. To read the first part, click <a href="http://healthpolicyforum.org/post/health-savings-accounts-and-reimbursement-arrangements-encourage-employer-group-health-coverage">here</a>.</em></p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/affordable-health-insurance-employers-should-adopt-account-based-health-plans-keep-costs-down" rel="tag" title=" Affordable Health Insurance: Employers Should Adopt Account-Based Health Plans to Keep Costs Down">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Affordable Health Insurance: Employers Should Adopt Account-Based Health Plans to Keep Costs Down</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/826#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:00:22 +0000 Marijka Lischak 826 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Health Savings Accounts and Reimbursement Arrangements Encourage Employer Group Health Coverage http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/health-savings-accounts-and-reimbursement-arrangements-encourage-employer-group-health-coverage <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/roy-ramthun"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Ramthun.jpg" width="120" height="171" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/roy-ramthun">Roy Ramthun</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">President, HSA Consulting Services</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><em>This is the first in a two-part series.</em></p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/health-savings-accounts-and-reimbursement-arrangements-encourage-employer-group-health-coverage" rel="tag" title="Health Savings Accounts and Reimbursement Arrangements Encourage Employer Group Health Coverage">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Health Savings Accounts and Reimbursement Arrangements Encourage Employer Group Health Coverage</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/824#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:00:56 +0000 Marijka Lischak 824 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org New Federal Transportation Spending Bill Could Jeopardize the Vitality of Our Communities http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/new-federal-transportation-spending-bill-could-jeopardize-vitality-our-communities <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/sarah-lifsey"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Sarah-Lifsey_0.jpg" width="90" height="89" alt="Sarah Lifsey" title="Policy Associate, Altarum Institute" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/sarah-lifsey">Sarah Lifsey</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Policy Associate, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Warm summer days and evenings draw many people outside to enjoy the weather and the extended daylight.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/new-federal-transportation-spending-bill-could-jeopardize-vitality-our-communities" rel="tag" title="New Federal Transportation Spending Bill Could Jeopardize the Vitality of Our Communities">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about New Federal Transportation Spending Bill Could Jeopardize the Vitality of Our Communities</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/new-federal-transportation-spending-bill-could-jeopardize-vitality-our-communities#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/820#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:50:13 +0000 Marijka Lischak 820 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Three Purple Messages for Consumers http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/three-purple-messages-consumers <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Wendy-Lynch-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Wendy Lynch Photo" title="Wendy Lynch" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd">Wendy Lynch, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>At <a href="http://www.altarum.org/csi/ccchc">Altarum's Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care</a>, we're working to increase individual involvement in health care decisions.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/three-purple-messages-consumers" rel="tag" title="Three Purple Messages for Consumers">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Three Purple Messages for Consumers</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/819#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:49:51 +0000 Wendy Lynch 819 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The Day After: Health Care Reform After NFIB v Sebelius http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/day-after-health-care-reform-after-nfib-v-sebelius <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/robert-f-graboyes-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/robert_graboyes86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Robert Graboyes" title="Robert Graboyes" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/robert-f-graboyes-phd">Robert F. Graboyes, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Fellow for Health and Economics, National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>The long process of health care reform will begin the day after the U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case of <em>NFIB v Sebelius</em>.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/day-after-health-care-reform-after-nfib-v-sebelius" rel="tag" title="The Day After: Health Care Reform After NFIB v Sebelius">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The Day After: Health Care Reform After NFIB v Sebelius</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/817#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:27:23 +0000 Jonathan Orr 817 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Transformation of SNAP Education Will Contribute to Obesity Prevention http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/transformation-snap-education-will-contribute-obesity-prevention <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/valerie-long"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Long_Valerie_Web_Photo.jpg" width="120" height="150" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/valerie-long">Valerie Long</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Deputy Director, Altarum Center for Food Assistance and Nutrition</div></div></div></div></div><div class="field-item odd"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/loren-bell"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/loren-bell.jpg" width="120" height="109" alt="Image of Loren Bell" title="Loren Bell" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/loren-bell">Loren Bell</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Altarum Institute Fellow</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>For more than 40 years, the <a href="http://www.fns.usda.gov/ora/menu/Published/snap/FILES/Other/BuildingHealthyAmerica.pdf" target="_blank">U.S.</a></p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/transformation-snap-education-will-contribute-obesity-prevention" rel="tag" title="Transformation of SNAP Education Will Contribute to Obesity Prevention ">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Transformation of SNAP Education Will Contribute to Obesity Prevention </span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/815#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:34:42 +0000 Jonathan Orr 815 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Public Health, Mobile and Social Media: a Nexus of Opportunity http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/public-health-mobile-and-social-media-nexus-opportunity <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/jason"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/jason_bonander.jpg" width="83" height="113" alt="Jason Bonander" title="Image of Jason Bonander" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/jason">Jason Bonander</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Office of Informatics and Information Resource Management, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>The challenges facing the public's health today are as serious as they have ever been. Obesity and diabetes are significant health issues for a large proportion of the U.S.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/public-health-mobile-and-social-media-nexus-opportunity" rel="tag" title="Public Health, Mobile and Social Media: a Nexus of Opportunity">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Public Health, Mobile and Social Media: a Nexus of Opportunity</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/public-health-mobile-and-social-media-nexus-opportunity#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/811#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:07:46 +0000 Jonathan Orr 811 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Is Health Spending Growth of “GDP+0” Sustainable? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/health-spending-growth-gdp0-sustainable <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Charles-Roehrig-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Charles Roehrig Photo" title="Charles Roehrig Photo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd">Charles Roehrig, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Vice President and Director, Altarum Center for Sustainable Health Spending</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>This is my fourth blog on the topic of sustainable health spending (others are here: <a href="http://healthpolicyforum.org/post/what-sustainable-health-spending">1</a>, <a href="http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2012/02/03/what-is-sustainable-health-spending/">2</a>, <a href="http://healthpolicyforu&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;"></a></p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/health-spending-growth-gdp0-sustainable" rel="tag" title="Is Health Spending Growth of “GDP+0” Sustainable? ">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Is Health Spending Growth of “GDP+0” Sustainable? </span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/808#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:02:20 +0000 Jonathan Orr 808 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The New Normal In Health Insurance: High Deductibles http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/new-normal-health-insurance-high-deductibles <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/khn_logo_light.gif" width="120" height="48" alt="Kaiser Health News" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news">Kaiser Health News</a></h2></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/new-normal-health-insurance-high-deductibles" rel="tag" title="The New Normal In Health Insurance: High Deductibles">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The New Normal In Health Insurance: High Deductibles</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/new-normal-health-insurance-high-deductibles#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/806#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 05 Jun 2012 11:24:57 +0000 Jonathan Orr 806 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Medical Overuse: More Care is Not Necessarily Better Care http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/medical-overuse-more-care-not-necessarily-better-care <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/holly-korda-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/holly_korda.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Holly Korda, Ph.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/holly-korda-phd">Holly Korda, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Deputy Director for Strategy and Growth, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Overuse of health care is moving into the policy spotlight as a critical—and addressable—cost and quality issue.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/medical-overuse-more-care-not-necessarily-better-care" rel="tag" title="Medical Overuse: More Care is Not Necessarily Better Care">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Medical Overuse: More Care is Not Necessarily Better Care</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/804#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 31 May 2012 11:39:59 +0000 Jonathan Orr 804 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Prescription Drug Abuse and Recovery—It Takes a Village http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/prescription-drug-abuse-and-recovery-it-takes-village <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/amarie-campbell"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Amerie-Campbell.jpg" width="120" height="167" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/amarie-campbell">Amarie Campbell</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Associate, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>In reading <a href="http://healthpolicyforum.org/post/cultural-differences-treatment-pain">Dr. Hua Carroll’s January post</a> here in the <em>Health Policy Forum</em> on the "Cultural Differences in the Treatment of Pain," two statements stood out to me:</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/prescription-drug-abuse-and-recovery-it-takes-village" rel="tag" title="Prescription Drug Abuse and Recovery—It Takes a Village">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Prescription Drug Abuse and Recovery—It Takes a Village</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/801#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 29 May 2012 15:34:55 +0000 Jonathan Orr 801 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Baby Boomers and the Demographic “Cannonball” http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/baby-boomers-and-demographic-cannonball <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/barbara-bryant"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/barbara-bryant.jpg" width="120" height="167" alt="Image of Barbara Bryant" title="Barbary Bryant" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/barbara-bryant">Barbara Bryant</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Publications Manager, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div><div class="field-item odd"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/janice-lynch-schuster"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/janice_schuster86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Janice Lynch Schuster" title="Janice Lynch Schuster" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/janice-lynch-schuster">Janice Lynch Schuster</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Writer, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><em>Your 80-year-old mother, who can’t recognize you due to severe Alzheimer’s dementia, has developed pneumonia after being hospitalized with a broken hip.</em></p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/baby-boomers-and-demographic-cannonball" rel="tag" title="Baby Boomers and the Demographic “Cannonball”">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Baby Boomers and the Demographic “Cannonball”</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/797#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 24 May 2012 12:00:24 +0000 Jonathan Orr 797 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Where I’d Put the Money: Quality of Life Investments for Frail and Disabled Elders http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/where-i-d-put-money-quality-life-investments-elderly <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-lynn-md-ma"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Joanne-Lynn-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Joanne Lynn" title="Joanne Lynn" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-lynn-md-ma">Joanne Lynn, M.D., M.A.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Elder Care and Advanced Illness</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Readers of this blog are familiar with—and mostly supportive of—these two claims: (1) that social and environmental factors are stronger than health care services in shaping the population’s health, but (2) those factors are weaker than health care services in securing funding </p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/where-i-d-put-money-quality-life-investments-elderly" rel="tag" title="Where I’d Put the Money: Quality of Life Investments for Frail and Disabled Elders">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Where I’d Put the Money: Quality of Life Investments for Frail and Disabled Elders</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/795#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 22 May 2012 11:09:24 +0000 Jonathan Orr 795 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Unlocking the Promise of Public Health Surveillance Data http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/unlocking-promise-public-health-surveillance-data <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/randy-durbin-md"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/randy-durbin.jpg" width="120" height="167" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/randy-durbin-md">Randy Durbin</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Medical Epidemiology and Health Informatics</div></div></div></div></div><div class="field-item odd"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/erica-griffin"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/erica-griffin.jpg" width="120" height="167" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/erica-griffin">Erica Griffin</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Policy Analyst, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>The promise of public health surveillance based on near real-time health data is based on the notion that there will be uniform participation among providers, the systems will be easy to utilize, the data will be timely and standardized and the information gained for the systems will be useful.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/unlocking-promise-public-health-surveillance-data" rel="tag" title="Unlocking the Promise of Public Health Surveillance Data">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Unlocking the Promise of Public Health Surveillance Data</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/unlocking-promise-public-health-surveillance-data#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/793#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 17 May 2012 11:49:34 +0000 Jonathan Orr 793 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Viral Hepatitis: The Alarm is Sounding on a Silent Epidemic http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/viral-hepatitis-alarm-sounding-silent-epidemic <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/antigone-dempsey"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Antigone-Dempsey.jpg" width="120" height="166" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/antigone-dempsey">Antigone Dempsey</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health Lead, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Today, more Americans are dying from viral hepatitis than HIV/AIDS. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/viral-hepatitis-alarm-sounding-silent-epidemic" rel="tag" title="Viral Hepatitis: The Alarm is Sounding on a Silent Epidemic">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Viral Hepatitis: The Alarm is Sounding on a Silent Epidemic</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/viral-hepatitis-alarm-sounding-silent-epidemic#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/788#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 15 May 2012 11:44:23 +0000 Jonathan Orr 788 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Health Care Transformation: Still a Work in Progress http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/health-care-transformation-still-work-progress <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/taylor-walsh"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/taylor_walsh86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Taylor Walsh" title="Taylor Walsh" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/taylor-walsh">Taylor Walsh</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Principal, Integrative Health &amp; Wellness Strategies</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Where does “health care transformation” exist? Google finds us 70,600,000 hits on the subject. Good luck with that. Is it out there in parts? On the horizon: in accountable care organizations; patient-centered medical homes? In gene therapy and epigenetics?</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/health-care-transformation-still-work-progress" rel="tag" title="Health Care Transformation: Still a Work in Progress">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Health Care Transformation: Still a Work in Progress</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/786#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 10 May 2012 14:47:54 +0000 Jonathan Orr 786 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org FDA’s Mini-Sentinel: Active Surveillance of Drug Safety http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/fda-s-mini-sentinel-active-surveillance-drug-safety <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/miriam-fogelson"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Miriam-Fogelson.jpg" width="120" height="167" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/miriam-fogelson">Miriam Fogelson</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Medical Affairs, KAI</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Mini-Sentinel is the Food &amp; Drug Administration’s new tool to assist in monitoring the safety of drugs and medical products after FDA approval.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/fda-s-mini-sentinel-active-surveillance-drug-safety" rel="tag" title="FDA’s Mini-Sentinel: Active Surveillance of Drug Safety">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about FDA’s Mini-Sentinel: Active Surveillance of Drug Safety</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/fda-s-mini-sentinel-active-surveillance-drug-safety#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/784#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 08 May 2012 11:26:10 +0000 Jonathan Orr 784 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Healthy Food Choices and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/healthy-food-choices-and-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/john-e-courtney-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/john-courtney86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/john-e-courtney-phd">John E. Courtney, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Executive Officer, American Society for Nutrition</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>With the rapidly changing economic trends within the United States, participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has ballooned recently.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/healthy-food-choices-and-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program" rel="tag" title="Healthy Food Choices and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Healthy Food Choices and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/healthy-food-choices-and-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/781#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 03 May 2012 11:53:47 +0000 Jonathan Orr 781 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org More Information Is Not Always Better: Pulling Consumers Into Active Choices About Testing http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/more-information-not-always-better-pulling-consumers-active-choices-about-testing <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Wendy-Lynch-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Wendy Lynch Photo" title="Wendy Lynch" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd">Wendy Lynch, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>“I’m thinking of getting a full-body CT scan,” Jane said. “What do you think?” Here was a healthy, active 72-year-old with no specific symptoms considering an expensive screening test.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/more-information-not-always-better-pulling-consumers-active-choices-about-testing" rel="tag" title="More Information Is Not Always Better: Pulling Consumers Into Active Choices About Testing">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about More Information Is Not Always Better: Pulling Consumers Into Active Choices About Testing</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/778#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 01 May 2012 11:53:53 +0000 Jonathan Orr 778 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Health Care: Dignity Is the Core of the Decent Care Values Approach http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/decent-care-values-health-care <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/jesse-milan-jr-jd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Jesse-Milan-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Jesse Milan Photo" title="Jesse Milan Photo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/jesse-milan-jr-jd">Jesse Milan, Jr., JD</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Vice President and Director, Community Health Systems, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div><div class="field-item odd"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/antigone-dempsey"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Antigone-Dempsey.jpg" width="120" height="166" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/antigone-dempsey">Antigone Dempsey</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health Lead, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Decent Care Values is an innovative, values-based model supporting transformation of health care at three levels: individual, social and systemic. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/decent-care-values-health-care" rel="tag" title="Health Care: Dignity Is the Core of the Decent Care Values Approach">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Health Care: Dignity Is the Core of the Decent Care Values Approach</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/775#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:43:30 +0000 Jonathan Orr 775 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Dignity-Driven Care as the Driver to Addressing Health Costs http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/dignity-driven-care-driver-addressing-health-costs <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/bruce-allen-chernof-md"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Bruce-Chernof86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Bruce Allen Chernof, M.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/bruce-allen-chernof-md">Bruce Allen Chernof, M.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">President &amp; Chief Executive Officer, The SCAN Foundation</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>The goal of a more effective and efficient system of care is straightforward—better care at lower costs. The path to that goal has proven far more elusive.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/dignity-driven-care-driver-addressing-health-costs" rel="tag" title="Dignity-Driven Care as the Driver to Addressing Health Costs">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Dignity-Driven Care as the Driver to Addressing Health Costs</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/772#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:30:26 +0000 Jonathan Orr 772 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Meeting the Health Needs of 21st Century Veterans http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/meeting-health-needs-21st-century-veterans <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/david"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/David-Anderson.jpg" width="120" height="167" alt="David Anderson" title="David Anderson" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/david">David Anderson</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Service Area Manager, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>After a decade of conflict in Iraq, our troops have come home, producing the largest increase in the number of American veterans since the 1970s. After Vietnam, an America tired of war and consumed with political angst neglected its veterans.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/meeting-health-needs-21st-century-veterans" rel="tag" title="Meeting the Health Needs of 21st Century Veterans">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Meeting the Health Needs of 21st Century Veterans</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/769#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:01:00 +0000 Jonathan Orr 769 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Where You Live Shouldn’t Determine How Healthy You Are (But it Can) http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/where-you-live-shouldn-t-determine-how-healthy-you-are-it-does <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/laura-segal"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/laura_segal-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Laura Segal" title="Laura Segal" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/laura-segal">Laura Segal</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Public Affairs, Trust for America&#039;s Health</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Your health shouldn’t be determined by where you live, but two new reports show that where you live, learn, work and play have a major impact on how healthy you are and how long you live.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/where-you-live-shouldn-t-determine-how-healthy-you-are-it-does" rel="tag" title="Where You Live Shouldn’t Determine How Healthy You Are (But it Can)">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Where You Live Shouldn’t Determine How Healthy You Are (But it Can)</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/766#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:31:11 +0000 Jonathan Orr 766 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Reducing Obesity and Achieving Health Equity Through CDC’s New Community Transformation Grants http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/reducing-obesity-and-achieving-health-equity-through-cdc-s-new-community-transformation-grants <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/jessica-mcduff"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Jessica-McDuff.jpg" width="120" height="167" alt="Jessica McDuff" title="Jessica McDuff" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/jessica-mcduff">Jessica McDuff</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Associate, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>It’s been in the news and at the forefront of public health policy debates—childhood obesity has tripled in the past 30 years and now represents one of the leading public health threats for our nation.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/reducing-obesity-and-achieving-health-equity-through-cdc-s-new-community-transformation-grants" rel="tag" title="Reducing Obesity and Achieving Health Equity Through CDC’s New Community Transformation Grants">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Reducing Obesity and Achieving Health Equity Through CDC’s New Community Transformation Grants</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/764#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:33:21 +0000 Jonathan Orr 764 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Physicians Wade Into Efforts To Curb Unnecessary Treatments http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/physicians-wade-efforts-curb-unnecessary-treatments <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/khn_logo_light.gif" width="120" height="48" alt="Kaiser Health News" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news">Kaiser Health News</a></h2></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>By Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News</p> <p>Nine prominent physician groups today released lists of <a href="http://choosingwisely.org/?page_id=13" target="_blank">45 common tests and treatments</a> they say are often unnecessary and may even harm patients.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/physicians-wade-efforts-curb-unnecessary-treatments" rel="tag" title="Physicians Wade Into Efforts To Curb Unnecessary Treatments ">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Physicians Wade Into Efforts To Curb Unnecessary Treatments </span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/761#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:33:14 +0000 Jonathan Orr 761 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Sustainable Health Spending Under the Ryan Path for Federal Non-Health Spending http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/sustainable-health-spending-under-ryan-path-federal-non-health-spending <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Charles-Roehrig-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Charles Roehrig Photo" title="Charles Roehrig Photo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd">Charles Roehrig, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Vice President and Director, Altarum Center for Sustainable Health Spending</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><strong>Background</strong></p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/sustainable-health-spending-under-ryan-path-federal-non-health-spending" rel="tag" title="Sustainable Health Spending Under the Ryan Path for Federal Non-Health Spending">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Sustainable Health Spending Under the Ryan Path for Federal Non-Health Spending</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/758#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:24:20 +0000 Jonathan Orr 758 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Health Care Law Blues: They Hear That Train a-Comin’ http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/don-t-look-now-health-reform-freight-train-coming <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/robert-f-graboyes-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/robert_graboyes86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Robert Graboyes" title="Robert Graboyes" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/robert-f-graboyes-phd">Robert F. Graboyes, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Fellow for Health and Economics, National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>For small business, the <a href="http://www.nfib.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=39lJugm_w4I%3d&amp;tabid=137">2010 health reform law</a> means higher costs, more red-tape and fewer choices. Some provisions are already in effect (e.g., coverage expansions, drug tax, FSA limits).</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/don-t-look-now-health-reform-freight-train-coming" rel="tag" title="Health Care Law Blues: They Hear That Train a-Comin’">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Health Care Law Blues: They Hear That Train a-Comin’</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/756#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:37:40 +0000 Jonathan Orr 756 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Getting the Right Medications Before and After Hospital Discharge http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/getting-right-medications-and-after-hospital-discharge <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/catherine-call"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/cathy-call.jpg" width="120" height="167" alt="Cathy Call Image" title="Cathy Call" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/catherine-call">Catherine Call</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Health Care Quality Research, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div><div class="field-item odd"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-lynn-md-ma"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Joanne-Lynn-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Joanne Lynn" title="Joanne Lynn" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-lynn-md-ma">Joanne Lynn, M.D., M.A.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Elder Care and Advanced Illness</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>According to the Institute of Medicine’s <em>Preventing Medication Errors </em>report, the average hospitalized patient encounters at least one medication error per day. One in five errors harms the patient.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/getting-right-medications-and-after-hospital-discharge" rel="tag" title="Getting the Right Medications Before and After Hospital Discharge">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Getting the Right Medications Before and After Hospital Discharge</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/754#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:22:58 +0000 Jonathan Orr 754 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Gambling With Your Health—Literally http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/gambling-your-health-literally <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/diana-williams"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/diana%20williams%202%202012.jpg" width="120" height="160" alt="Diana Williams" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/diana-williams">Diana Williams</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Associate &amp; Project Director, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div><div class="field-item odd"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/keith-s-whyte"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Keith-Whyte.jpg" width="120" height="141" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/keith-s-whyte">Keith S. Whyte</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Executive Director, National Council on Problem Gambling</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Do you love casinos? How about bingo? Do you bet on the NCAA tournament championship? Do you gamble on the Internet? If so, you are not alone: More than 70 percent of adults in the United States report that they’ve gambled at least once during the past year.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/gambling-your-health-literally" rel="tag" title="Gambling With Your Health—Literally ">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Gambling With Your Health—Literally </span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/752#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:06:38 +0000 Jonathan Orr 752 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The Health Law and the Supreme Court: A Primer for the Upcoming Oral Arguments http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/health-law-and-supreme-court-primer-upcoming-oral-arguments <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/khn_logo_light.gif" width="120" height="48" alt="Kaiser Health News" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news">Kaiser Health News</a></h2></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><em>By Stuart Taylor, Jr. for Kaiser Health News</em></p> <p>How big is the constitutional challenge to the Obama health care law, which the Supreme Court will hear on March 26-28?</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/health-law-and-supreme-court-primer-upcoming-oral-arguments" rel="tag" title="The Health Law and the Supreme Court: A Primer for the Upcoming Oral Arguments ">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The Health Law and the Supreme Court: A Primer for the Upcoming Oral Arguments </span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/749#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:09:25 +0000 Jonathan Orr 749 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Playing Smart: Getting Started on Joint Use Agreements http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/playing-smart-getting-started-joint-use-agreements <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/danielle-marshall"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/danielle_marshall-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Danielle Marshall" title="Danielle Marshall" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/danielle-marshall">Danielle Marshall</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Community Engagement, KaBOOM!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><em>The City of Niagara Falls was “spending a lot of money to maintain marginal courts where people didn’t want them anyway, and we were getting complaints from neighbors who lived nearby.” “We wanted to use all of that money to create one large-scale park with actual pro</em></p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/playing-smart-getting-started-joint-use-agreements" rel="tag" title="Playing Smart: Getting Started on Joint Use Agreements">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Playing Smart: Getting Started on Joint Use Agreements</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/747#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:15:41 +0000 Jonathan Orr 747 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org AIDS 2012: The World is Invited, but Who Will Respond and Who Will Come? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/2012-international-aids-conference-america-world-invited-who-will-respond-and-who-will-come <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/jesse-milan-jr-jd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Jesse-Milan-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Jesse Milan Photo" title="Jesse Milan Photo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/jesse-milan-jr-jd">Jesse Milan, Jr., JD</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Vice President and Director, Community Health Systems, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> The world’s largest—and most important—conference for bringing together service providers, advocates, policymakers and scientific and social science researchers to learn about and share advances in prevention, treatment, care and policy for an epidemic that counts 34 million living with HIV/AIDS worldwide takes place in Washington, D.C., from July 22 - 27. However, not everyone who could benefit from this conference will be able to enter the U.S. to attend, and it's worrisome that many people here in the U.S. who most need to hear its messages might not pay attention. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/2012-international-aids-conference-america-world-invited-who-will-respond-and-who-will-come" rel="tag" title="AIDS 2012: The World is Invited, but Who Will Respond and Who Will Come?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about AIDS 2012: The World is Invited, but Who Will Respond and Who Will Come?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/2012-international-aids-conference-america-world-invited-who-will-respond-and-who-will-come#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/745#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:04:11 +0000 Jonathan Orr 745 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org New WIC Food Package Widely Accepted, But Challenges Remain http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/new-wic-food-package-widely-accepted-challenges-remain <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/loren-bell"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/loren-bell.jpg" width="120" height="109" alt="Image of Loren Bell" title="Loren Bell" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/loren-bell">Loren Bell</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Altarum Institute Fellow</div></div></div></div></div><div class="field-item odd"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/stacy-gleason"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Stacy-Gleason.jpg" width="120" height="167" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/stacy-gleason">Stacy Gleason</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Policy Associate, Center for Food Assistance and Nutrition</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>The Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) provides federal grants to states for supplemental foods, health care referrals and nutrition education for low-income, pregnant and postpartum women, infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional-r</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/new-wic-food-package-widely-accepted-challenges-remain" rel="tag" title="New WIC Food Package Widely Accepted, But Challenges Remain">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about New WIC Food Package Widely Accepted, But Challenges Remain</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/742#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:30:39 +0000 Jonathan Orr 742 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Edging into the Center: Health Prevention, Improving the Research Process, and the Placebo Effect http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/edging-center-health-prevention-improving-research-process-and-placebo-effect <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/taylor-walsh"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/taylor_walsh86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Taylor Walsh" title="Taylor Walsh" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/taylor-walsh">Taylor Walsh</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Principal, Integrative Health &amp; Wellness Strategies</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>It is often difficult to discern what is happening on the fringe of things and then decide whether any of it matters.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/edging-center-health-prevention-improving-research-process-and-placebo-effect" rel="tag" title="Edging into the Center: Health Prevention, Improving the Research Process, and the Placebo Effect">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Edging into the Center: Health Prevention, Improving the Research Process, and the Placebo Effect</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/edging-center-health-prevention-improving-research-process-and-placebo-effect#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/738#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:38:24 +0000 Jonathan Orr 738 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Activating Consumers with Financial Control: Lessons from Health Savings Accounts http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/activating-consumers-financial-control-lessons-health-savings-accounts <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Wendy-Lynch-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Wendy Lynch Photo" title="Wendy Lynch" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd">Wendy Lynch, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Health Savings Accounts are growing up. No longer an oddity, millions of families have accounts funded by tens of thousands of employers (1). After almost a decade, the cumulative evidence about consumer-directed health plans is quite compelling.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/activating-consumers-financial-control-lessons-health-savings-accounts" rel="tag" title="Activating Consumers with Financial Control: Lessons from Health Savings Accounts">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Activating Consumers with Financial Control: Lessons from Health Savings Accounts</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/activating-consumers-financial-control-lessons-health-savings-accounts#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/736#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:20:13 +0000 Jonathan Orr 736 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org On “the Myth of Runaway Health Spending”: Is the Crisis Really Ending? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/myth-runaway-health-spending-crisis-really-ending <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Charles-Roehrig-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Charles Roehrig Photo" title="Charles Roehrig Photo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd">Charles Roehrig, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Vice President and Director, Altarum Center for Sustainable Health Spending</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><em>Center for Sustainable Health Spending colleagues George Miller, Ph.D. and Paul Hughes-Cromwick have the following thoughts.</em></p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/myth-runaway-health-spending-crisis-really-ending" rel="tag" title="On “the Myth of Runaway Health Spending”: Is the Crisis Really Ending?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about On “the Myth of Runaway Health Spending”: Is the Crisis Really Ending?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/735#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:23:09 +0000 Paul Hughes-Cromwick 735 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org What Does It Matter to You: Patient Activation and Good Health Outcomes http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/what-does-it-matter-you-patient-activation-and-good-health-outcomes <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/janice-lynch-schuster"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/janice_schuster86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Janice Lynch Schuster" title="Janice Lynch Schuster" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/janice-lynch-schuster">Janice Lynch Schuster</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Writer, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>A few days into my 68-year old father’s hospitalization for sepsis, his doctors determined the strain of bacteria that plagued him: streptococcus.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/what-does-it-matter-you-patient-activation-and-good-health-outcomes" rel="tag" title="What Does It Matter to You: Patient Activation and Good Health Outcomes">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about What Does It Matter to You: Patient Activation and Good Health Outcomes</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/what-does-it-matter-you-patient-activation-and-good-health-outcomes#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/733#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:12:53 +0000 Jonathan Orr 733 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org One Step Past Prevention: New Tools to Limit the Incidence of Obesity http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/one-step-past-prevention-new-tools-limit-incidence-obesity <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/john-e-courtney-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/john-courtney86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/john-e-courtney-phd">John E. Courtney, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Executive Officer, American Society for Nutrition</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Obesity is a rapidly growing concern in the United States—no pun intended. In 2010, about one-third (33.8 percent) of adults in the U.S., and approximately 17 percent of children and adolescents were considered <a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/238475.php">obese</a>.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/one-step-past-prevention-new-tools-limit-incidence-obesity" rel="tag" title="One Step Past Prevention: New Tools to Limit the Incidence of Obesity">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about One Step Past Prevention: New Tools to Limit the Incidence of Obesity</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/730#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:27:03 +0000 Jonathan Orr 730 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The Knowledge Gap of Practices in Child Care Settings: Progress on the Horizon http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/knowledge-gap-practices-child-care-settings-progress-horizon <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/karah-mantinan"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Karah-Mantinan86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Karah Mantinan, MPH, RD" title="Karah Mantinan, MPH, RD" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/karah-mantinan">Karah Mantinan, MPH, RD</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Deputy Director, Altarum Center for Healthy Child and Youth Development</div></div></div></div></div><div class="field-item odd"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/sarah-lifsey"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Sarah-Lifsey_0.jpg" width="90" height="89" alt="Sarah Lifsey" title="Policy Associate, Altarum Institute" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/sarah-lifsey">Sarah Lifsey</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Policy Associate, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>With the passage of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, the United States Department of Agriculture will be revising the nutrition guidelines for the Child and Adult Care Food Program for the first time in decades.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/knowledge-gap-practices-child-care-settings-progress-horizon" rel="tag" title="The Knowledge Gap of Practices in Child Care Settings: Progress on the Horizon">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The Knowledge Gap of Practices in Child Care Settings: Progress on the Horizon</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/728#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:11:21 +0000 Jonathan Orr 728 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Behavioral Health: How Substance Use Disorders Fit into the Picture http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/behavioral-health-how-substance-use-disorders-fit-picture <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/diana-williams"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/diana%20williams%202%202012.jpg" width="120" height="160" alt="Diana Williams" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/diana-williams">Diana Williams</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Associate &amp; Project Director, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div><div class="field-item odd"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/melissa-connolly"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/melissaconnolly.JPG" width="120" height="174" alt="Melissa Connolly" title="Melissa Connolly" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/melissa-connolly">Melissa Connolly</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Writer &amp; Editor, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>When I began working in the field of social work 25 years ago, a huge distinction existed between working with individuals who suffered from mental health issues or physical ailments and those who battled substance use disorders.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/behavioral-health-how-substance-use-disorders-fit-picture" rel="tag" title="Behavioral Health: How Substance Use Disorders Fit into the Picture">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Behavioral Health: How Substance Use Disorders Fit into the Picture</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/behavioral-health-how-substance-use-disorders-fit-picture#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">5 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/724#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:10:57 +0000 Jonathan Orr 724 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Cashews on the Hindenburg http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/cashews-hindenburg <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/robert-f-graboyes-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/robert_graboyes86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Robert Graboyes" title="Robert Graboyes" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/robert-f-graboyes-phd">Robert F. Graboyes, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Fellow for Health and Economics, National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has a thousand pages of moving parts, and the relatively few that have rolled out are shedding sprockets across the landscape.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/cashews-hindenburg" rel="tag" title="Cashews on the Hindenburg">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Cashews on the Hindenburg</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/720#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:55:03 +0000 Jonathan Orr 720 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Where’s the Value in Innovation? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/where-s-value-innovation <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/holly-korda-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/holly_korda.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Holly Korda, Ph.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/holly-korda-phd">Holly Korda, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Deputy Director for Strategy and Growth, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Innovation in health care products, services, delivery models and processes has emerged as a popular solution to spiraling U.S.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/where-s-value-innovation" rel="tag" title="Where’s the Value in Innovation?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Where’s the Value in Innovation?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/where-s-value-innovation#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/718#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:27:57 +0000 Jonathan Orr 718 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Experts Divided Over Recommendation To Screen Children For Cholesterol http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/experts-divided-over-recommendation-screen-children-cholesterol <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/khn_logo_light.gif" width="120" height="48" alt="Kaiser Health News" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news">Kaiser Health News</a></h2></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>By Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/experts-divided-over-recommendation-screen-children-cholesterol" rel="tag" title="Experts Divided Over Recommendation To Screen Children For Cholesterol">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Experts Divided Over Recommendation To Screen Children For Cholesterol</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/714#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:28:39 +0000 Jonathan Orr 714 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org What Is “Sustainable” Health Spending? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/what-sustainable-health-spending <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Charles-Roehrig-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Charles Roehrig Photo" title="Charles Roehrig Photo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd">Charles Roehrig, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Vice President and Director, Altarum Center for Sustainable Health Spending</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>As we embark upon a presidential campaign season, we can anticipate many lively debates on the topics of taxation and spending in this nation.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/what-sustainable-health-spending" rel="tag" title="What Is “Sustainable” Health Spending?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about What Is “Sustainable” Health Spending?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/what-sustainable-health-spending#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/712#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:00:36 +0000 Jonathan Orr 712 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Is Technology in Health Care a Double Edged Sword? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/technology-health-care-double-edged-sword <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/brock-husby"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/brock-husby.jpg" width="120" height="167" alt="Brock Husby" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/brock-husby">Brock Husby</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Lean Health Care Coach, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>With all of the discussions of rising health care costs, technology is often cited as being a major potential factor for reversing this crippling trend. Electronic medical records are predicted to save billions of dollars per year through increased efficiency and availability of information.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/technology-health-care-double-edged-sword" rel="tag" title="Is Technology in Health Care a Double Edged Sword?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Is Technology in Health Care a Double Edged Sword?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/technology-health-care-double-edged-sword#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/710#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Orr 710 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Coalition Building for Care Transitions: Communities Work to Help Frail Elders http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/coalition-building-care-transitions-communities-work-help-frail-elders <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-lynn-md-ma"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Joanne-Lynn-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Joanne Lynn" title="Joanne Lynn" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-lynn-md-ma">Joanne Lynn, M.D., M.A.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Elder Care and Advanced Illness</div></div></div></div></div><div class="field-item odd"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/janice-lynch-schuster"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/janice_schuster86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Janice Lynch Schuster" title="Janice Lynch Schuster" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/janice-lynch-schuster">Janice Lynch Schuster</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Writer, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>“Care transitions” is the new buzzword in efforts to improve health, improve care and reduce costs.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/coalition-building-care-transitions-communities-work-help-frail-elders" rel="tag" title="Coalition Building for Care Transitions: Communities Work to Help Frail Elders">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Coalition Building for Care Transitions: Communities Work to Help Frail Elders</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/707#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:25:07 +0000 Jonathan Orr 707 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Thoughts on Robert Samuelson's "Cutting Health-Care Spending the Old-Fashioned Way" http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/response-robert-samuelsons-cutting-health-care-spending-old-fashioned-way-0 <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Charles-Roehrig-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Charles Roehrig Photo" title="Charles Roehrig Photo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd">Charles Roehrig, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Vice President and Director, Altarum Center for Sustainable Health Spending</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Kudos to Robert Samuelson  (<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/cutting-heath-care-spending-the-old-fashioned-way/2012/01/16/gIQANMzH3P_story.html">Op-Ed, January 16, 2012, <em>The Washington Post</em></a>) for bringing attention to health care spending in the U.S., and to the m</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/response-robert-samuelsons-cutting-health-care-spending-old-fashioned-way-0" rel="tag" title="Thoughts on Robert Samuelson&#039;s &quot;Cutting Health-Care Spending the Old-Fashioned Way&quot;">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Thoughts on Robert Samuelson&#039;s &quot;Cutting Health-Care Spending the Old-Fashioned Way&quot;</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/703#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:41:54 +0000 Paul Hughes-Cromwick 703 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Are Consumers Ready to Transform Health Care? If Not Now, When? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/are-consumers-ready-transform-health-care-if-not-now-when <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Wendy-Lynch-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Wendy Lynch Photo" title="Wendy Lynch" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd">Wendy Lynch, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>There is a massive untapped resource in health care: consumers. Like a sleeping giant, unaware of its size and power, consumers have yet to realize what effect they could have on the system simply by asking questions or making choices.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/are-consumers-ready-transform-health-care-if-not-now-when" rel="tag" title="Are Consumers Ready to Transform Health Care? If Not Now, When?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Are Consumers Ready to Transform Health Care? If Not Now, When?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/are-consumers-ready-transform-health-care-if-not-now-when#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/704#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:00:40 +0000 Jonathan Orr 704 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Encouraging Risk in a Risk Adverse World http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/encouraging-risk-risk-adverse-world <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/danielle-marshall"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/danielle_marshall-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Danielle Marshall" title="Danielle Marshall" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/danielle-marshall">Danielle Marshall</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Community Engagement, KaBOOM!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><em> “It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.</em></p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/encouraging-risk-risk-adverse-world" rel="tag" title="Encouraging Risk in a Risk Adverse World">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Encouraging Risk in a Risk Adverse World</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/encouraging-risk-risk-adverse-world#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">4 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/700#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:46:26 +0000 Jonathan Orr 700 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Cultural Differences in the Treatment of Pain http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/cultural-differences-treatment-pain <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/hua-carroll-md"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Hua_Carroll.JPG" width="120" height="109" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/hua-carroll-md">Hua Carroll, M.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Pharmacovigilance, KAI Research, Inc., An Altarum Company</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Due to the rapid increase in prescription drug abuse, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared prescription drug abuse an epidemic. The latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health indicates that over 70 percent of people who abused prescription pain medications obtained them from friends or relatives, while approximately 5 percent got them from a drug dealer or over the Internet. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/cultural-differences-treatment-pain" rel="tag" title="Cultural Differences in the Treatment of Pain">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Cultural Differences in the Treatment of Pain</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/cultural-differences-treatment-pain#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">3 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/698#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000 Marijka Lischak 698 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Resolving to Talk with Your Loved Ones About Aging with Dignity and Independence http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/resolving-talk-your-loved-ones-about-aging-dignity-and-independence <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/bruce-allen-chernof-md"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Bruce-Chernof86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Bruce Allen Chernof, M.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/bruce-allen-chernof-md">Bruce Allen Chernof, M.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">President &amp; Chief Executive Officer, The SCAN Foundation</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Although not an easy discussion, it is vital that we know the preferences and choices of loved ones (and they know ours) regarding the kind of support you and those you love expect long before a crisis occurs. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/resolving-talk-your-loved-ones-about-aging-dignity-and-independence" rel="tag" title="Resolving to Talk with Your Loved Ones About Aging with Dignity and Independence">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Resolving to Talk with Your Loved Ones About Aging with Dignity and Independence</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/resolving-talk-your-loved-ones-about-aging-dignity-and-independence#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/690#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000 Marijka Lischak 690 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The Walmart Opportunity: Can Retailers Revamp Primary Care? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/walmart-opportunity-can-retailers-revamp-primary-care <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/khn_logo_light.gif" width="120" height="48" alt="Kaiser Health News" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news">Kaiser Health News</a></h2></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Just as Walmart and other retailers shook up the prescription drug business by offering $4 generic drugs, the industry now aims to apply its negotiating and marketing clout to tackle problems that vex consumers and the health sector: unpredictable costs, a lack of primary care doctors and inefficient management of chronic illnesses, whose costs drive the majority of health care spending. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/walmart-opportunity-can-retailers-revamp-primary-care" rel="tag" title="The Walmart Opportunity: Can Retailers Revamp Primary Care?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The Walmart Opportunity: Can Retailers Revamp Primary Care?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/walmart-opportunity-can-retailers-revamp-primary-care#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/682#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:57:40 +0000 Marijka Lischak 682 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Tell Me About It: Clinicians Must Work with Patients To Develop Good Care Plans http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/tell-me-about-it-clinicians-must-work-patients-develop-good-care-plans <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-lynn-md-ma"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Joanne-Lynn-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Joanne Lynn" title="Joanne Lynn" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-lynn-md-ma">Joanne Lynn, M.D., M.A.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Elder Care and Advanced Illness</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Our health care system ably treats sudden threats to life, prevents many illnesses and cures much of what ails us. But it cannot reliably and efficiently support us when we face serious chronic illness and disability—a predictable part of the end of life.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/tell-me-about-it-clinicians-must-work-patients-develop-good-care-plans" rel="tag" title="Tell Me About It: Clinicians Must Work with Patients To Develop Good Care Plans">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Tell Me About It: Clinicians Must Work with Patients To Develop Good Care Plans</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/680#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:43:29 +0000 Janice Schuster 680 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Are We Ready or Not for the Next Public Health Emergency? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/are-we-ready-or-not-next-public-health-emergency <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/laura-segal"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/laura_segal-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Laura Segal" title="Laura Segal" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/laura-segal">Laura Segal</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Public Affairs, Trust for America&#039;s Health</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> It seems that a number of programs that help detect and respond to bioterrorism and other health emergencies are at risk for major cuts or elimination. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/are-we-ready-or-not-next-public-health-emergency" rel="tag" title="Are We Ready or Not for the Next Public Health Emergency?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Are We Ready or Not for the Next Public Health Emergency?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/are-we-ready-or-not-next-public-health-emergency#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/678#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000 Marijka Lischak 678 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Most Consumers Don't Ask About the Price of Health Care Services http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/most-consumers-dont-ask-about-price-health-care-services <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Wendy-Lynch-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Wendy Lynch Photo" title="Wendy Lynch" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd">Wendy Lynch, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>How interested are consumers in the price of health care services? Results from our Consumer Opinion survey indicate that most consumers have never asked about the price of a health care service before getting care.  Fewer than 30 percent asked about price in the past year. F</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/most-consumers-dont-ask-about-price-health-care-services" rel="tag" title="Most Consumers Don&#039;t Ask About the Price of Health Care Services">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Most Consumers Don&#039;t Ask About the Price of Health Care Services</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/most-consumers-dont-ask-about-price-health-care-services#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/676#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:54:54 +0000 Wendy Lynch 676 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Grading Docs With Electronic Medical Records http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/grading-docs-electronic-medical-records <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/khn_logo_light.gif" width="120" height="48" alt="Kaiser Health News" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news">Kaiser Health News</a></h2></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Once most doctors saw how grading could help them improve, they were won over. Electronic medical records are good for the patient, the doctor and the bottom line. But they're not the silver bullet that will slay all the nation's health care problems. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/grading-docs-electronic-medical-records" rel="tag" title="Grading Docs With Electronic Medical Records">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Grading Docs With Electronic Medical Records</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/grading-docs-electronic-medical-records#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/673#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:06:24 +0000 Marijka Lischak 673 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org We Need to Focus on Hospital Prices - It’s Where the Money Is http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/we-need-focus-hospital-prices-its-where-money <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/zack-cooper"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/zack_cooper86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Zack Cooper" title="Zack Cooper" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/zack-cooper">Zack Cooper</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist, London School of Economics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> The U.S. hospital sector is one of the largest industries in the United States. It’s a $700 billion dollar industry, and there is twice as much money spent on hospital care than is spent on the purchase of new cars. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/we-need-focus-hospital-prices-its-where-money" rel="tag" title="We Need to Focus on Hospital Prices - It’s Where the Money Is">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about We Need to Focus on Hospital Prices - It’s Where the Money Is</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/we-need-focus-hospital-prices-its-where-money#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">5 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/664#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:24:04 +0000 Marijka Lischak 664 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Small Business and Exchanges: SHOP Till You Drop http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/small-business-and-exchanges-shop-till-you-drop <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/robert-f-graboyes-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/robert_graboyes86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Robert Graboyes" title="Robert Graboyes" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/robert-f-graboyes-phd">Robert F. Graboyes, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Fellow for Health and Economics, National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Assuming the 2010 health care law survives through 2014, one of the big questions is the future of small-group insurance plans – those in which the employer chooses and administers a plan or plans for employees. The health insurance exchanges built into the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) create mechanisms for small-group survival, but also powerful incentives for their dissolution. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/small-business-and-exchanges-shop-till-you-drop" rel="tag" title="Small Business and Exchanges: SHOP Till You Drop">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Small Business and Exchanges: SHOP Till You Drop</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/659#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:00:00 +0000 Marijka Lischak 659 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Paying Patients to Take Drugs or Helping Them Make Informed Choices? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/paying-patients-take-drugs-or-helping-them-make-informed-choices <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Wendy-Lynch-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Wendy Lynch Photo" title="Wendy Lynch" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd">Wendy Lynch, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> While there is certainly evidence that cost influences a person’s likelihood of refilling medications, price is only one of many factors. It’s not a single conscious choice between taking a pill or not; it is ongoing management of a complex array of daily and weekly activities. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/paying-patients-take-drugs-or-helping-them-make-informed-choices" rel="tag" title="Paying Patients to Take Drugs or Helping Them Make Informed Choices?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Paying Patients to Take Drugs or Helping Them Make Informed Choices?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/paying-patients-take-drugs-or-helping-them-make-informed-choices#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/657#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:11:17 +0000 Marijka Lischak 657 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The Key to Longevity? A Healthy Lifestyle http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/key-longevity-healthy-lifestyle <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/rochelle-sharpe"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/rochelle_sharpe86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Rochelle Sharpe" title="Rochelle Sharpe" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/rochelle-sharpe">Rochelle Sharpe</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> The secrets of longevity are not so secret any more. Scientists know a lot about how diet, exercise, and social connections can extend the human lifespan. Study after study has shown that genes don’t affect life expectancy nearly as much as the environment. Enter Dan Buettner, best-selling author of The Blue Zones, who wrote a fascinating account of four places in the world where people live the longest – outliving Americans by more than a decade. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/key-longevity-healthy-lifestyle" rel="tag" title="The Key to Longevity? A Healthy Lifestyle">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The Key to Longevity? A Healthy Lifestyle</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/key-longevity-healthy-lifestyle#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">3 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/654#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:03:09 +0000 Marijka Lischak 654 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Hiding in Plain Sight: Seeing the Person Beyond the Patient http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/hiding-in-plain-sight-seeing-the-person-beyond-the-patient <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/bruce-allen-chernof-md"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Bruce-Chernof86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Bruce Allen Chernof, M.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/bruce-allen-chernof-md">Bruce Allen Chernof, M.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">President &amp; Chief Executive Officer, The SCAN Foundation</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> High-quality, cost-effective health care delivery is all about targeting: the right care, by the right provider, at the right time, in the right place, and for the right cost. It sounds straightforward, almost easy. The challenge to getting it right is understanding the range of variables in a person’s life that drive health care use and costs. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/hiding-in-plain-sight-seeing-the-person-beyond-the-patient" rel="tag" title="Hiding in Plain Sight: Seeing the Person Beyond the Patient">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Hiding in Plain Sight: Seeing the Person Beyond the Patient</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/644#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:44:13 +0000 Connie Harich 644 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Finding The Sweet Spot Where Geriatrics, Palliative Care, and System Integration Intersect http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/finding-the-sweet-spot-where-geriatrics-palliative-care-and-system-integration-intersect <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-kenen"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/joanne_kenen-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Joanne Kenen" title="Joanne Kenen" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-kenen">Joanne Kenen</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Dealing with the hard stuff – the very sick, the complex, the dying – is the essence of quality health care in an aging society. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/finding-the-sweet-spot-where-geriatrics-palliative-care-and-system-integration-intersect" rel="tag" title="Finding The Sweet Spot Where Geriatrics, Palliative Care, and System Integration Intersect">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Finding The Sweet Spot Where Geriatrics, Palliative Care, and System Integration Intersect</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/635#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:13:50 +0000 Connie Harich 635 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org What is “Sustainable” Health Spending? (Part I) http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/what-is-sustainable-health-spending-part-i <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Charles-Roehrig-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Charles Roehrig Photo" title="Charles Roehrig Photo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd">Charles Roehrig, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Vice President and Director, Altarum Center for Sustainable Health Spending</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> There is surprisingly little consensus – and not even much being written – about what growth rate would be “sustainable”? Defining sustainable growth and establishing a credible target is one of our top research priorities. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/what-is-sustainable-health-spending-part-i" rel="tag" title="What is “Sustainable” Health Spending? (Part I)">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about What is “Sustainable” Health Spending? (Part I)</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/what-is-sustainable-health-spending-part-i#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/625#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:12:01 +0000 Connie Harich 625 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Healthier Americans for a Healthier Economy http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/healthier-americans-for-a-healthier-economy <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/laura-segal"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/laura_segal-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Laura Segal" title="Laura Segal" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/laura-segal">Laura Segal</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Public Affairs, Trust for America&#039;s Health</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Preventing disease is one of the most common sense ways to improve health in America. But it is also a major factor for improving the economy. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/healthier-americans-for-a-healthier-economy" rel="tag" title="Healthier Americans for a Healthier Economy">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Healthier Americans for a Healthier Economy</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/605#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 605 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org After CLASS: A Long-Term Care Insurance System http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/after-class-long-term-care-insurance-system <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/gloria-eldridge-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Gloria-Eldridge86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Gloria Eldridge, Ph.D." title="Gloria Eldridge, Ph.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/gloria-eldridge-phd">Gloria Eldridge, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Strategic Innovations for Health Care Reform</div></div></div></div></div><div class="field-item odd"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-lynn-md-ma"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Joanne-Lynn-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Joanne Lynn" title="Joanne Lynn" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-lynn-md-ma">Joanne Lynn, M.D., M.A.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Elder Care and Advanced Illness</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Let’s not capitalize on or mourn the loss of CLASS for too long. We have work to do – and we do not have the luxury of time before forging ahead. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/after-class-long-term-care-insurance-system" rel="tag" title="After CLASS: A Long-Term Care Insurance System">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about After CLASS: A Long-Term Care Insurance System</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/479#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 479 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Boosting Creative Play Through Loose Parts http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/boosting-creative-play-through-loose-parts <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/danielle-marshall"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/danielle_marshall-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Danielle Marshall" title="Danielle Marshall" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/danielle-marshall">Danielle Marshall</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Community Engagement, KaBOOM!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> The use of open-ended play materials is as old as play itself... having seen the rich experiences that develop as children engage in play with open-ended materials it is hard not to advocate for their increased use. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/boosting-creative-play-through-loose-parts" rel="tag" title="Boosting Creative Play Through Loose Parts">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Boosting Creative Play Through Loose Parts</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/boosting-creative-play-through-loose-parts#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">3 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/507#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 507 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The Politics of Prevention http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/politics-prevention <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-kenen"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/joanne_kenen-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Joanne Kenen" title="Joanne Kenen" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-kenen">Joanne Kenen</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> If there’s one thing everyone in Washington can agree on it’s that prevention is good. And that’s about as far as the agreement goes. As for the rest of it – who is responsible for prevention, how to define prevention, what is the government’s role in prevention, how much to spend on prevention and when to spend it – is not so clear, and wrapped up in the bitter politics (and difficult economics) of the day. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/politics-prevention" rel="tag" title="The Politics of Prevention">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The Politics of Prevention</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/395#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:27:27 +0000 Connie Harich 395 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The Biggest Health Disparity of All: Control (Part 2) http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/biggest-health-disparity-all-control-part-2 <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Wendy-Lynch-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Wendy Lynch Photo" title="Wendy Lynch" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd">Wendy Lynch, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> In many cases the health care system has determined that certain people are incapable of understanding their health issues and making their own decisions. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/biggest-health-disparity-all-control-part-2" rel="tag" title="The Biggest Health Disparity of All: Control (Part 2)">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The Biggest Health Disparity of All: Control (Part 2)</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/biggest-health-disparity-all-control-part-2#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">5 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/361#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Tim Green 361 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The Biggest Health Disparity of All: Control (Part 1) http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/biggest-health-disparity-all-control-part-1 <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Wendy-Lynch-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Wendy Lynch Photo" title="Wendy Lynch" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd">Wendy Lynch, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> In many cases the health care system has determined that certain people are incapable of understanding their health issues and making their own decisions. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/biggest-health-disparity-all-control-part-1" rel="tag" title="The Biggest Health Disparity of All: Control (Part 1)">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The Biggest Health Disparity of All: Control (Part 1)</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/biggest-health-disparity-all-control-part-1#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">4 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/706#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 706 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Population Health: Can Partnerships be Mobilized and Sustained to Improve Community Health? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/can-partnerships-be-mobilized-and-sustained-improve-community-health <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/beth-costello-mba"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Beth-Costello-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Beth Costello" title="Beth Costello" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/beth-costello-mba">Beth Costello, M.B.A.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Analyst, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> In your community, do block groups, farmer’s markets, city planners, community clinics, emergency services, and departments of health work elbow-to-elbow, or do they act in organizational silos? Improving population health was an important aspect of the Affordable Care Act, which led to the emergence of new community-based strategies that were launched in part from the public health campaign. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/can-partnerships-be-mobilized-and-sustained-improve-community-health" rel="tag" title="Population Health: Can Partnerships be Mobilized and Sustained to Improve Community Health?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Population Health: Can Partnerships be Mobilized and Sustained to Improve Community Health?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/369#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 369 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org CLASS Act Gone, But Costs of Aging Remain http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/class-act-gone-costs-aging-remain <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/gloria-eldridge-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Gloria-Eldridge86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Gloria Eldridge, Ph.D." title="Gloria Eldridge, Ph.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/gloria-eldridge-phd">Gloria Eldridge, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Strategic Innovations for Health Care Reform</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> The Obama Administration abandoned the Community Living Services and Supports (CLASS) Act last month. This public long-term care insurance program was slated to be the country’s first attempt at dealing with an aging Boomer population that is in denial about what it costs to grow old in America. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/class-act-gone-costs-aging-remain" rel="tag" title="CLASS Act Gone, But Costs of Aging Remain">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about CLASS Act Gone, But Costs of Aging Remain</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/359#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:45:42 +0000 Tim Green 359 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Evidence-Based Interventions: Replicate or Adapt? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/evidence-based-interventions-replicate-or-adapt <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-lynn-md-ma"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Joanne-Lynn-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Joanne Lynn" title="Joanne Lynn" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-lynn-md-ma">Joanne Lynn, M.D., M.A.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Elder Care and Advanced Illness</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Carefully done research on small numbers in a few settings will not be enough to guide practical implementation of process redesign. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/evidence-based-interventions-replicate-or-adapt" rel="tag" title="Evidence-Based Interventions: Replicate or Adapt?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Evidence-Based Interventions: Replicate or Adapt?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/evidence-based-interventions-replicate-or-adapt#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/504#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 504 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Our (Limited) Policy Toolbox for Slowing Health Care Spending Growth http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/our-limited-policy-toolbox-slowing-health-care-spending-growth <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/zack-cooper"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/zack_cooper86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Zack Cooper" title="Zack Cooper" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/zack-cooper">Zack Cooper</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist, London School of Economics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Nearly every developed country is under substantial pressure to slow the growth in health care spending. However, as we have seen, while virtually every country has pledged to spend less, few have been successful. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/our-limited-policy-toolbox-slowing-health-care-spending-growth" rel="tag" title="Our (Limited) Policy Toolbox for Slowing Health Care Spending Growth">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Our (Limited) Policy Toolbox for Slowing Health Care Spending Growth</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/our-limited-policy-toolbox-slowing-health-care-spending-growth#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/467#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 467 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Running, Chasing, Fleeing: Why We Need Rough and Tumble Play http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/running-chasing-fleeing-why-we-need-rough-and-tumble-play <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/danielle-marshall"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/danielle_marshall-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Danielle Marshall" title="Danielle Marshall" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/danielle-marshall">Danielle Marshall</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Community Engagement, KaBOOM!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> If we can look past our fears that rough and tumble play breeds aggression, we can focus on its merits. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/running-chasing-fleeing-why-we-need-rough-and-tumble-play" rel="tag" title="Running, Chasing, Fleeing: Why We Need Rough and Tumble Play">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Running, Chasing, Fleeing: Why We Need Rough and Tumble Play</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/running-chasing-fleeing-why-we-need-rough-and-tumble-play#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/370#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 370 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Are Health Apps the Cure for Anything That Ails You? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/are-health-apps-the-cure-for-anything-that-ails-you <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/rochelle-sharpe"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/rochelle_sharpe86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Rochelle Sharpe" title="Rochelle Sharpe" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/rochelle-sharpe">Rochelle Sharpe</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> The store offers a mindboggling array of creative apps, including ones that calculate calories burned during exercise, create soundtracks to help people fall asleep, and display pictures that can elicit memories from Alzheimer’s patients. If the store doesn’t offer something for what ails you now, it probably will soon. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/are-health-apps-the-cure-for-anything-that-ails-you" rel="tag" title="Are Health Apps the Cure for Anything That Ails You?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Are Health Apps the Cure for Anything That Ails You?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/563#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 563 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Note to Consumers: The Rules in Health Care Are a Little Different http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/note-consumers-rules-health-care-are-little-different <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Wendy-Lynch-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Wendy Lynch Photo" title="Wendy Lynch" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd">Wendy Lynch, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Because consumers don’t realize that the price of health care products and services is set very differently than prices in other markets, it leads to perceptions and behaviors that can be expensive and even dangerous. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/note-consumers-rules-health-care-are-little-different" rel="tag" title="Note to Consumers: The Rules in Health Care Are a Little Different">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Note to Consumers: The Rules in Health Care Are a Little Different</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/498#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 498 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Health Care Law Subsidies: A Tale of Two Cities http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/health-care-law-subsidies-tale-two-cities <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/robert-f-graboyes-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/robert_graboyes86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Robert Graboyes" title="Robert Graboyes" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/robert-f-graboyes-phd">Robert F. Graboyes, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Fellow for Health and Economics, National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> The 2010 health care law will conjure up a strange brew of inequities as it comes to a boil in 2014. The mechanistic, one-size-fits-all health insurance subsidies, for example, will generate serious questions about the law’s fairness. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/health-care-law-subsidies-tale-two-cities" rel="tag" title="Health Care Law Subsidies: A Tale of Two Cities">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Health Care Law Subsidies: A Tale of Two Cities</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/482#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 482 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Are We There Yet? A Look at the National Long-Term Services and Supports Scorecard http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/are-we-there-yet-look-national-long-term-services-and-supports-scorecard <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/bruce-allen-chernof-md"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Bruce-Chernof86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Bruce Allen Chernof, M.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/bruce-allen-chernof-md">Bruce Allen Chernof, M.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">President &amp; Chief Executive Officer, The SCAN Foundation</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> So many fundamental activities crucial to our daily lives can be measured with certainty and confidence, but not so in health care—and certainly not when it comes to aging and long-term services and supports. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/are-we-there-yet-look-national-long-term-services-and-supports-scorecard" rel="tag" title="Are We There Yet? A Look at the National Long-Term Services and Supports Scorecard">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Are We There Yet? A Look at the National Long-Term Services and Supports Scorecard</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/464#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 464 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Innovations in Caregiver Support During Hospice http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/innovations-caregiver-support-during-hospice <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-kenen"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/joanne_kenen-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Joanne Kenen" title="Joanne Kenen" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-kenen">Joanne Kenen</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> A look at at three research projects aimed at developing something that may work—something that may improve end of life care for both the patient and the family. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/innovations-caregiver-support-during-hospice" rel="tag" title="Innovations in Caregiver Support During Hospice">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Innovations in Caregiver Support During Hospice</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/368#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 368 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Ten Years After September 11th and Anthrax http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/ten-years-after-september-11th-and-anthrax <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/laura-segal"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/laura_segal-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Laura Segal" title="Laura Segal" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/laura-segal">Laura Segal</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Public Affairs, Trust for America&#039;s Health</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> September 11, 2001 shook the country to our core. On the heels of experiencing the unimaginable, the field of public health was thrust onto the front lines with the anthrax attacks – and was changed forever. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/ten-years-after-september-11th-and-anthrax" rel="tag" title="Ten Years After September 11th and Anthrax">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Ten Years After September 11th and Anthrax</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/371#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 371 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Why Advocate for Consumer Choice in Health Care? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/why-advocate-consumer-choice-health-care <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Wendy-Lynch-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Wendy Lynch Photo" title="Wendy Lynch" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd">Wendy Lynch, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Providers deliver care of ever-increasing complexity within brief, often-rushed encounters, leaving limited time for dialog. So, why invest resources and attention on an individual’s preferences about treatment? </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/why-advocate-consumer-choice-health-care" rel="tag" title="Why Advocate for Consumer Choice in Health Care?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Why Advocate for Consumer Choice in Health Care?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/why-advocate-consumer-choice-health-care#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/499#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 499 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org What's Killing Our Creativity? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/whats-killing-our-creativity <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/danielle-marshall"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/danielle_marshall-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Danielle Marshall" title="Danielle Marshall" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/danielle-marshall">Danielle Marshall</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Community Engagement, KaBOOM!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Creativity is not something that should be thought of as a privilege of youth. It is something that we each can tap into each day, regardless of age. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/whats-killing-our-creativity" rel="tag" title="What&#039;s Killing Our Creativity?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about What&#039;s Killing Our Creativity?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/whats-killing-our-creativity#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/508#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 22 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 508 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org A Brief History of Health Spending Since 1965 http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/brief-history-health-spending-1965 <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Charles-Roehrig-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Charles Roehrig Photo" title="Charles Roehrig Photo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd">Charles Roehrig, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Vice President and Director, Altarum Center for Sustainable Health Spending</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Since last March when we began tracking national health expenditures (NHE) on a monthly basis, we have been wondering when the health spending share of GDP would hit the 18 percent threshold. The recent downward revision of historical GDP estimates has provided the answer – it already happened — back in the summer of 2009, around the time when the recession was declared officially over. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/brief-history-health-spending-1965" rel="tag" title="A Brief History of Health Spending Since 1965">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about A Brief History of Health Spending Since 1965</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/354#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Tim Green 354 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org VA Experience Shows Patient 'Rebound' Hard to Counter http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/va-experience-shows-patient-rebound-hard-to-counter <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/khn_logo_light.gif" width="120" height="48" alt="Kaiser Health News" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news">Kaiser Health News</a></h2></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> The Veterans Health Administration, the largest integrated health care system in the country, has long employed many of the approaches Medicare is pushing on all hospitals to cut unnecessary readmissions. But new data show VA hospital patients are just as likely to end up back in a hospital bed as are patients at private hospitals. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/va-experience-shows-patient-rebound-hard-to-counter" rel="tag" title="VA Experience Shows Patient &#039;Rebound&#039; Hard to Counter">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about VA Experience Shows Patient &#039;Rebound&#039; Hard to Counter</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/541#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 15 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 541 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Health Reform – Many Americans Don’t Know What It Means http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/health-reform-many-americans-do-not-know-what-it-means <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-kenen"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/joanne_kenen-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Joanne Kenen" title="Joanne Kenen" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-kenen">Joanne Kenen</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> He finally said it. “Obama cares,” President Barack Obama told a town hall over the summer, turning the Republican “Obamacare” phrase on its head. I was wondering what took him so long </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/health-reform-many-americans-do-not-know-what-it-means" rel="tag" title="Health Reform – Many Americans Don’t Know What It Means">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Health Reform – Many Americans Don’t Know What It Means</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/604#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 604 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Social Media’s Evolving Role in Health Care http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/social-media-evolving-role-in-health-care-how-tweet-it-is <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Wendy-Lynch-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Wendy Lynch Photo" title="Wendy Lynch" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd">Wendy Lynch, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> On August 23, 2011, some people in New York knew an earthquake was coming before it happened. They weren’t psychic (as far as I know), but digital tweets from their friends in Washington, DC arrived 30 seconds before any seismic rumbles began </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/social-media-evolving-role-in-health-care-how-tweet-it-is" rel="tag" title="Social Media’s Evolving Role in Health Care">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Social Media’s Evolving Role in Health Care</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/social-media-evolving-role-in-health-care-how-tweet-it-is#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/596#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 596 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Where To For Hospice? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/where-hospice <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-lynn-md-ma"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Joanne-Lynn-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Joanne Lynn" title="Joanne Lynn" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-lynn-md-ma">Joanne Lynn, M.D., M.A.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Elder Care and Advanced Illness</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> While hospice provides a good model of care for the cancer patients it was originally designed to serve, it does not deliver efficiently or comprehensively what the majority of us will need. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/where-hospice" rel="tag" title="Where To For Hospice?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Where To For Hospice?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/where-hospice#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/505#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 505 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org What Community Health Centers Mean to Economic and Health Security http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/what-community-health-centers-mean-to-economic-and-health-security <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/peter-shin-phd-mph"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Peter-Shin86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Peter Shin, Ph.D., M.P.H." title="Peter Shin, Ph.D., M.P.H." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/peter-shin-phd-mph">Peter Shin, Ph.D., M.P.H.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Associate Professor of Health Policy, George Washington University</div></div></div></div></div><div class="field-item odd"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/kristen-perosino-mph"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Kristen-Perosino86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Kristen Perosino, M.P.H." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/kristen-perosino-mph">Kristen Perosino, M.P.H.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Manager of Advocacy Partnerships, Altarum Institute </div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> In our current economic climate, community health centers continue to absorb rising numbers of uninsured patients, providing high-quality and affordable care while generating billions in savings to the health care system. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/what-community-health-centers-mean-to-economic-and-health-security" rel="tag" title="What Community Health Centers Mean to Economic and Health Security">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about What Community Health Centers Mean to Economic and Health Security</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/552#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 552 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Slowing Health Care Spending Is Crucial To Our Fiscal Future http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/slowing-health-care-spending-crucial-our-fiscal-future <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/zack-cooper"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/zack_cooper86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Zack Cooper" title="Zack Cooper" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/zack-cooper">Zack Cooper</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist, London School of Economics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> The U.S. debt ceiling debate was a master class in political dysfunction. However, in the midst of the political infighting and false debates about the merits of raising revenue versus slashing spending, one firm fiscal fact remained: unless the U.S. can slow the rate of growth in health care spending, we’re going to keep having these paralyzing debt debates time and time again. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/slowing-health-care-spending-crucial-our-fiscal-future" rel="tag" title="Slowing Health Care Spending Is Crucial To Our Fiscal Future">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Slowing Health Care Spending Is Crucial To Our Fiscal Future</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/slowing-health-care-spending-crucial-our-fiscal-future#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/468#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 468 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Public Health Strategies: Enlisting a New Generation http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/public-health-strategies-enlisting-a-new-generation <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/danielle-marshall"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/danielle_marshall-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Danielle Marshall" title="Danielle Marshall" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/danielle-marshall">Danielle Marshall</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Community Engagement, KaBOOM!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Service learning presents an amazing opportunity to include children and youth in efforts to deal with the public health crises that are obesity and the play deficit. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/public-health-strategies-enlisting-a-new-generation" rel="tag" title="Public Health Strategies: Enlisting a New Generation">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Public Health Strategies: Enlisting a New Generation</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/public-health-strategies-enlisting-a-new-generation#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/509#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 18 Aug 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 509 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org e-Patient Networks on the Rise http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/e-patient-networks-on-the-rise <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/rochelle-sharpe"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/rochelle_sharpe86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Rochelle Sharpe" title="Rochelle Sharpe" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/rochelle-sharpe">Rochelle Sharpe</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>In this era of government gridlock and the 15-minute doctor’s appointment, a growing number of consumers are no longer waiting for the political establishment to solve the nation’s health care crisis. Instead, they are banding together to fix problems themselves.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/e-patient-networks-on-the-rise" rel="tag" title="e-Patient Networks on the Rise">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about e-Patient Networks on the Rise</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/e-patient-networks-on-the-rise#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/564#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 564 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Hospitals and “Post-Hospital” Care http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/hospitals-and-post-hospital-care <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-lynn-md-ma"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Joanne-Lynn-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Joanne Lynn" title="Joanne Lynn" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-lynn-md-ma">Joanne Lynn, M.D., M.A.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Elder Care and Advanced Illness</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> While hospice provides a good model of care for the cancer patients it was originally designed to serve, it does not deliver efficiently or comprehensively what the majority of us will need. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/hospitals-and-post-hospital-care" rel="tag" title="Hospitals and “Post-Hospital” Care">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Hospitals and “Post-Hospital” Care</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/hospitals-and-post-hospital-care#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/506#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 506 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org PPACA and the Jobless Recovery http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/ppaca-and-jobless-recovery <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/robert-f-graboyes-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/robert_graboyes86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Robert Graboyes" title="Robert Graboyes" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/robert-f-graboyes-phd">Robert F. Graboyes, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Fellow for Health and Economics, National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Small-business owners are deeply concerned that the 2010 health care law (PPACA) will prolong what has been described as America’s “jobless recovery.” </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/ppaca-and-jobless-recovery" rel="tag" title="PPACA and the Jobless Recovery">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about PPACA and the Jobless Recovery</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/483#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 09 Aug 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 483 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Dignity as the Cornerstone to Better Care http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/dignity-cornerstone-better-care <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/bruce-allen-chernof-md"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Bruce-Chernof86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Bruce Allen Chernof, M.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/bruce-allen-chernof-md">Bruce Allen Chernof, M.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">President &amp; Chief Executive Officer, The SCAN Foundation</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> The cornerstone of a more effective and efficient system of care is to engage people in making decisions about their life and health in a way that upholds their dignity, independence, and right to self determination. Unfortunately, when it comes to serving older Americans who face advanced illness, this concept is contrary to the way most health care is actually delivered. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/dignity-cornerstone-better-care" rel="tag" title="Dignity as the Cornerstone to Better Care">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Dignity as the Cornerstone to Better Care</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/465#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 04 Aug 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 465 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org HeartLink Program Reduces Hospital Readmissions http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/heartlink-program-reduces-hospital-readmissions <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-kenen"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/joanne_kenen-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Joanne Kenen" title="Joanne Kenen" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-kenen">Joanne Kenen</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Hospital readmissions in the HeartLink group versus regular care are lower. And when they do get readmitted … they aren’t as sick, and don’t stay in the hospital as long. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/heartlink-program-reduces-hospital-readmissions" rel="tag" title="HeartLink Program Reduces Hospital Readmissions">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about HeartLink Program Reduces Hospital Readmissions</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/400#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 02 Aug 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 400 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The Tipping Point in America's Obesity Epidemic http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/tipping-point-americas-obesity-epidemic <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/laura-segal"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/laura_segal-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Laura Segal" title="Laura Segal" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/laura-segal">Laura Segal</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Public Affairs, Trust for America&#039;s Health</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Obesity is hurting more than just our health, it’s hitting us in the pocketbook. Obesity-related health care costs total around $147 billion annually, roughly 10 percent of health care spending. And it’s hurting our productivity. Obesity-related job absenteeism costs about $4.3 annually, lower productivity accounts for approximately $506 per obese worker per year, and as a person’s BMI increases, so do his or her sick days, medical claims, and health care costs. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/tipping-point-americas-obesity-epidemic" rel="tag" title="The Tipping Point in America&#039;s Obesity Epidemic">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The Tipping Point in America&#039;s Obesity Epidemic</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/tipping-point-americas-obesity-epidemic#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/406#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Wed, 27 Jul 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 406 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Health Law Bolsters Funding for In-School Clinics http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/health-law-bolsters-funding-for-in-school-clinics <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/khn_logo_light.gif" width="120" height="48" alt="Kaiser Health News" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news">Kaiser Health News</a></h2></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Treating skinned knees and stomachaches is part of the drill at any school nurse’s office or school-based health center. But for many kids, health-care providers at these sites do much more than treat everyday aches and pains: They give checkups and vaccinations, make sure kids take their insulin shots and antidepressants on time, and teach them how to manage chronic conditions such as asthma. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/health-law-bolsters-funding-for-in-school-clinics" rel="tag" title="Health Law Bolsters Funding for In-School Clinics">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Health Law Bolsters Funding for In-School Clinics</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/542#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 542 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Child’s Play: It’s a Social Justice Issue http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/childs-play-its-a-social-justice-issue <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/danielle-marshall"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/danielle_marshall-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Danielle Marshall" title="Danielle Marshall" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/danielle-marshall">Danielle Marshall</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Community Engagement, KaBOOM!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> From my window I can hear the sounds of children at play. Their giggles and chants echo what childhood should be—a carefree time to explore, play, and challenge oneself. Only, despite the appearance this boisterous group provides, this is not the case for many children. In fact for many children play has become an issue of social justice. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/childs-play-its-a-social-justice-issue" rel="tag" title="Child’s Play: It’s a Social Justice Issue">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Child’s Play: It’s a Social Justice Issue</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/515#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 515 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Must We Bend the Health Care Employment Curve? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/must-we-bend-health-care-employment-curve <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Charles-Roehrig-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Charles Roehrig Photo" title="Charles Roehrig Photo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd">Charles Roehrig, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Vice President and Director, Altarum Center for Sustainable Health Spending</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Monthly employment figures for June (released on July 8) were much lower than anticipated and have caused new doubts about the robustness of the economic recovery. The increase in payroll jobs was only 18,000, a fraction of what had been expected by most forecasters. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/must-we-bend-health-care-employment-curve" rel="tag" title="Must We Bend the Health Care Employment Curve?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Must We Bend the Health Care Employment Curve?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/must-we-bend-health-care-employment-curve#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/355#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Tim Green 355 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The Rhinestone Cowboy Shows Us the Way http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/rhinestone-cowboy-shows-us-way <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/janice-lynch-schuster"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/janice_schuster86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Janice Lynch Schuster" title="Janice Lynch Schuster" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/janice-lynch-schuster">Janice Lynch Schuster</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Writer, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Glen Campbell’s decision to put a face on Alzheimer's by continuing to tour is a mark of real courage and heart. Not many celebrities let us come so close. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/rhinestone-cowboy-shows-us-way" rel="tag" title="The Rhinestone Cowboy Shows Us the Way">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The Rhinestone Cowboy Shows Us the Way</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/500#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 500 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Medicare Spending Tug of War Continues http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/medicare-spending-tug-war-continues <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-kenen"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/joanne_kenen-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Joanne Kenen" title="Joanne Kenen" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-kenen">Joanne Kenen</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> “Granny” is in the health policy crosshairs yet again. This time, it’s IPAB – the Independent Payment Advisory Board, the topic of two separate House hearings this week – that will theoretically unplug her, ration her, or sink her with the Titanic. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/medicare-spending-tug-war-continues" rel="tag" title="Medicare Spending Tug of War Continues">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Medicare Spending Tug of War Continues</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/403#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 403 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Informed Choices: A Critical Responsibility for Health Care Consumers http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/informed-choices-a-critical-responsibility-for-health-care-consumers <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Wendy-Lynch-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Wendy Lynch Photo" title="Wendy Lynch" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd">Wendy Lynch, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Did you know that doctors make different treatment choices for themselves than they recommend to their patients? A recent study found that doctors are more likely to take on the risk of death to avoid serious complications than they recommend to patients. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/informed-choices-a-critical-responsibility-for-health-care-consumers" rel="tag" title="Informed Choices: A Critical Responsibility for Health Care Consumers">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Informed Choices: A Critical Responsibility for Health Care Consumers</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/597#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 07 Jul 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 597 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Consumers Add Their 2 Cents to Health Laws Plan Labels http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/consumers-add-their-2-cents-to-health-laws-plan-labels <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/khn_logo_light.gif" width="120" height="48" alt="Kaiser Health News" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news">Kaiser Health News</a></h2></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Starting next March, all insurers and employers will have to make it easier for consumers faced with the ordeal of picking a health plan. Under the 2010 health law, they’ll have to provide health policy information that the average enrollee can understand and use to compare with other plans. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/consumers-add-their-2-cents-to-health-laws-plan-labels" rel="tag" title="Consumers Add Their 2 Cents to Health Laws Plan Labels">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Consumers Add Their 2 Cents to Health Laws Plan Labels</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/consumers-add-their-2-cents-to-health-laws-plan-labels#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/543#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 28 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 543 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Learning From a Policy Mishap in the English NHS http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/learning-policy-mishap-english-nhs <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/zack-cooper"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/zack_cooper86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Zack Cooper" title="Zack Cooper" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/zack-cooper">Zack Cooper</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist, London School of Economics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Do you want more evidence that health care reform can be a hugely difficult process? If so, then take a look at the political and policy tumult over the British government’s health care reforms to the English National Health Service. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/learning-policy-mishap-english-nhs" rel="tag" title="Learning From a Policy Mishap in the English NHS">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Learning From a Policy Mishap in the English NHS</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/469#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 469 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org KaBOOM!: 2,000 Playgrounds and Counting http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/kaboom-2000-playgrounds-and-counting <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/danielle-marshall"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/danielle_marshall-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Danielle Marshall" title="Danielle Marshall" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/danielle-marshall">Danielle Marshall</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Community Engagement, KaBOOM!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Like many nonprofits, KaBOOM! exists to solve a problem—the play deficit. Our children are playing less than any previous generation, and this lack of play is causing them profound physical, intellectual, social, and emotional harm. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/kaboom-2000-playgrounds-and-counting" rel="tag" title="KaBOOM!: 2,000 Playgrounds and Counting">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about KaBOOM!: 2,000 Playgrounds and Counting</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/516#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 516 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org AIDS in America: No Thirty Year Reunion http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/no-thirty-year-reunion <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/jesse-milan-jr-jd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Jesse-Milan-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Jesse Milan Photo" title="Jesse Milan Photo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/jesse-milan-jr-jd">Jesse Milan, Jr., JD</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Vice President and Director, Community Health Systems, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Thirty years ago this month, the CDC released a report documenting the first cases of what we now know as the acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Unfortunately, the news was not heard or understood by the millions AIDS would touch. In this the 30th year of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, much has changed. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/no-thirty-year-reunion" rel="tag" title="AIDS in America: No Thirty Year Reunion">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about AIDS in America: No Thirty Year Reunion</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/no-thirty-year-reunion#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">7 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/363#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Tim Green 363 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Value-Based Health Care: The Issues http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/value-based-health-care-issues <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/gloria-eldridge-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Gloria-Eldridge86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Gloria Eldridge, Ph.D." title="Gloria Eldridge, Ph.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/gloria-eldridge-phd">Gloria Eldridge, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Strategic Innovations for Health Care Reform</div></div></div></div></div><div class="field-item odd"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/holly-korda-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/holly_korda.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Holly Korda, Ph.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/holly-korda-phd">Holly Korda, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Deputy Director for Strategy and Growth, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Addressing three dilemmas: Who defines value and how? How can value be measured? Can a value-based system also respect choice? </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/value-based-health-care-issues" rel="tag" title="Value-Based Health Care: The Issues">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Value-Based Health Care: The Issues</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/481#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 16 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 481 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org HIT Hit: (PPACA’s Health Insurance Tax) http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/hit-hit-ppacas-health-insurance-tax <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/robert-f-graboyes-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/robert_graboyes86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Robert Graboyes" title="Robert Graboyes" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/robert-f-graboyes-phd">Robert F. Graboyes, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Fellow for Health and Economics, National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> The 2010 health care law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), hits small business with a barrage of inequities. Among the most egregious is the health insurance tax (HIT) launched by the law’s Section 9010. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/hit-hit-ppacas-health-insurance-tax" rel="tag" title="HIT Hit: (PPACA’s Health Insurance Tax)">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about HIT Hit: (PPACA’s Health Insurance Tax)</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/hit-hit-ppacas-health-insurance-tax#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/484#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 484 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Community First Choice: Allowing Older Adults to Age with Dignity and Independence http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/community-first-choice-allowing-older-adults-to-age-with-dignity-and-independence <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/lisa-shugarman-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/lisa_shugarman.jpg" width="81" height="91" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/lisa-shugarman-phd">Lisa Shugarman, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Policy, The SCAN Foundation</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> For most seniors, the “right place” is what they consider to be their homes and communities. Before passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the limited set of federal and state options for community-based care hampered the extent to which this vision could be realized. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/community-first-choice-allowing-older-adults-to-age-with-dignity-and-independence" rel="tag" title="Community First Choice: Allowing Older Adults to Age with Dignity and Independence">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Community First Choice: Allowing Older Adults to Age with Dignity and Independence</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/568#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Wed, 08 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 568 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Transitional Care Model: A Better Approach for High Risk or Chronically Ill http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/transitional-care-model-a-better-approach-for-high-risk-or-chronically-ill <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-kenen"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/joanne_kenen-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Joanne Kenen" title="Joanne Kenen" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-kenen">Joanne Kenen</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> What if a high-risk, chronically ill elderly patient that was admitted to the hospital had an advanced practice nurse (APN) caring for him (or her) from the get-go? And that nurse enhanced health care team communication and prevented functional decline? </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/transitional-care-model-a-better-approach-for-high-risk-or-chronically-ill" rel="tag" title="Transitional Care Model: A Better Approach for High Risk or Chronically Ill">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Transitional Care Model: A Better Approach for High Risk or Chronically Ill</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/583#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 583 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Prevention Works: How Health Statistics Contribute to Sound Policy Decisions http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/prevention-works-how-health-statistics-contribute-sound-policy-decisions <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/john-e-courtney-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/john-courtney86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/john-e-courtney-phd">John E. Courtney, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Executive Officer, American Society for Nutrition</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 created the Prevention and Public Health Fund to prevent illness and promote the health of all Americans. The Prevention and Public Health Fund (the Fund) will provide $15 billion over the first 10 years and $2 billion each year after to national, state, and community efforts to promote health and wellness. These efforts will help prevent disease, manage conditions before they become epidemics, and decrease burgeoning health care costs. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/prevention-works-how-health-statistics-contribute-sound-policy-decisions" rel="tag" title="Prevention Works: How Health Statistics Contribute to Sound Policy Decisions">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Prevention Works: How Health Statistics Contribute to Sound Policy Decisions</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/prevention-works-how-health-statistics-contribute-sound-policy-decisions#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/471#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 471 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Fighting a Silent Epidemic: A New Strategic Approach to Viral Hepatitis http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/fighting-a-silent-epidemic-a-new-strategic-approach-to-viral-hepatitis <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/laura-segal"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/laura_segal-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Laura Segal" title="Laura Segal" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/laura-segal">Laura Segal</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Public Affairs, Trust for America&#039;s Health</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Millions of baby boomers and other Americans have hepatitis B or C and do not know it. In fact, nearly two percent of the U.S. population may have some form of the disease – and approximately five million individuals will develop a chronic form of the diseases. Yet, startlingly, many of them will not even realize they have a hepatitis infection for decades. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/fighting-a-silent-epidemic-a-new-strategic-approach-to-viral-hepatitis" rel="tag" title="Fighting a Silent Epidemic: A New Strategic Approach to Viral Hepatitis">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Fighting a Silent Epidemic: A New Strategic Approach to Viral Hepatitis</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/560#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 26 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 560 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Bundled Payment, Transparency, and Market Competition: What's Under Wraps? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/bundled-payment-transparency-and-market-competition-whats-under-wraps <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/holly-korda-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/holly_korda.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Holly Korda, Ph.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/holly-korda-phd">Holly Korda, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Deputy Director for Strategy and Growth, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Bundling provides incentives for providers to differentiate product and price and enables purchasers and payers to compare and contrast offerings. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/bundled-payment-transparency-and-market-competition-whats-under-wraps" rel="tag" title="Bundled Payment, Transparency, and Market Competition: What&#039;s Under Wraps?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Bundled Payment, Transparency, and Market Competition: What&#039;s Under Wraps?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/402#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 24 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 402 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Recess: Moving People to Action http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/recess-moving-people-to-action <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/danielle-marshall"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/danielle_marshall-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Danielle Marshall" title="Danielle Marshall" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/danielle-marshall">Danielle Marshall</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Community Engagement, KaBOOM!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> I often start off my play-related trainings with a visioning exercise. I ask the audience to close their eyes and remember their own play memories–the sights and sounds they experienced, how they interacted with their peers, and where they were when they played. At the close of the activity the group participates in a sharing of memories. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/recess-moving-people-to-action" rel="tag" title="Recess: Moving People to Action">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Recess: Moving People to Action</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/recess-moving-people-to-action#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/517#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 19 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 517 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org New Labels Will Help Consumers Choose Health Plans http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/new-labels-will-help-consumers-choose-health-plans <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/khn_logo_light.gif" width="120" height="48" alt="Kaiser Health News" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news">Kaiser Health News</a></h2></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> For the first time, consumers shopping for a health policy will be able to get a good idea of how much of the costs different plans will cover for three medical conditions: maternity care, treatment for diabetes and breast cancer. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/new-labels-will-help-consumers-choose-health-plans" rel="tag" title="New Labels Will Help Consumers Choose Health Plans">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about New Labels Will Help Consumers Choose Health Plans</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/544#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 17 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 544 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org What You Need to Know to Engage Patients...and Why http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/what-you-need-to-know-to-engage-patients-and-why <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/howard-rosen"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/howard-rosen.jpg" width="86" height="91" alt="Howard Rosen" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/howard-rosen">Howard Rosen</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">CEO/Founder, Life:WIRE® Corp</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 88 percent of American adults who have Internet access research information about their health online. This trend provides a unique opportunity to improve the patient experience and quite pos­sibly their health outcomes. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/what-you-need-to-know-to-engage-patients-and-why" rel="tag" title="What You Need to Know to Engage Patients...and Why">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about What You Need to Know to Engage Patients...and Why</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/557#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 12 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 557 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The Case for Tracking Health Spending as a Share of "Potential" GDP http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/case-tracking-health-spending-share-potential-gdp <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Charles-Roehrig-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Charles Roehrig Photo" title="Charles Roehrig Photo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd">Charles Roehrig, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Vice President and Director, Altarum Center for Sustainable Health Spending</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> In my last Altarum Health Policy blog, I discussed how to recognize a bent health care cost curve. This curve was defined in terms of health spending as a share of gross domestic product (GDP), a measure that is closely watched by health economists and policymakers who are concerned with the share of national income needed to fund health care. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/case-tracking-health-spending-share-potential-gdp" rel="tag" title="The Case for Tracking Health Spending as a Share of &quot;Potential&quot; GDP">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The Case for Tracking Health Spending as a Share of &quot;Potential&quot; GDP</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/case-tracking-health-spending-share-potential-gdp#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">4 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/356#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Wed, 11 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Tim Green 356 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Is the Political Terrain Shifting on Health Reform? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/is-the-political-terrain-shifting-on-health-reform <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-kenen"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/joanne_kenen-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Joanne Kenen" title="Joanne Kenen" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-kenen">Joanne Kenen</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> As of this writing, since taking control of the House in January, Republicans have tried to repeal the ACA, strike out large portions of the law, defund it, and weaken some of the regulations of health reform. Some were willing to shut down the government over health reform. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/is-the-political-terrain-shifting-on-health-reform" rel="tag" title="Is the Political Terrain Shifting on Health Reform?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Is the Political Terrain Shifting on Health Reform?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/584#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 10 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 584 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Being a Consumer Isn’t Just About Money, It’s About Choice http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/being-a-consumer-isnt-just-about-money-its-about-choice <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Wendy-Lynch-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Wendy Lynch Photo" title="Wendy Lynch" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd">Wendy Lynch, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> In a system that generates income by providing more and more services, the only party currently paying attention to the necessary care question is the government and employers. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/being-a-consumer-isnt-just-about-money-its-about-choice" rel="tag" title="Being a Consumer Isn’t Just About Money, It’s About Choice">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Being a Consumer Isn’t Just About Money, It’s About Choice</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/being-a-consumer-isnt-just-about-money-its-about-choice#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/598#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 05 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 598 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Essential Health Benefits: The Secretary’s Joystick http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/essential-health-benefits-secretarys-joystick <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/robert-f-graboyes-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/robert_graboyes86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Robert Graboyes" title="Robert Graboyes" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/robert-f-graboyes-phd">Robert F. Graboyes, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Fellow for Health and Economics, National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Beginning in 2014, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) hands the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services a joystick – the Essential Health Benefits package – with the potential to rocket small-business health insurance premiums skyward. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/essential-health-benefits-secretarys-joystick" rel="tag" title="Essential Health Benefits: The Secretary’s Joystick">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Essential Health Benefits: The Secretary’s Joystick</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/485#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 03 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 485 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Where’s the Patient in the Patient-Centered Medical Home? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/patient-centered-medical-home <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/holly-korda-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/holly_korda.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Holly Korda, Ph.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/holly-korda-phd">Holly Korda, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Deputy Director for Strategy and Growth, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> PCMH models are new, diverse, dynamic, and evolving. We need to understand them, work with them, and design them from blueprints that meet patients’ needs. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/patient-centered-medical-home" rel="tag" title="Where’s the Patient in the Patient-Centered Medical Home?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Where’s the Patient in the Patient-Centered Medical Home?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/patient-centered-medical-home#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/494#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 494 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Medicare Payments: Will Hospital Cost-Shifting Blunt the Impact of Reform? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/will-hospital-cost-shifting-blunt-impact-medicare-payment-reform <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/zack-cooper"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/zack_cooper86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Zack Cooper" title="Zack Cooper" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/zack-cooper">Zack Cooper</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist, London School of Economics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> If cost shifting in hospitals was a frequent phenomenon in the U.S., it would have profound policy implications. In the absence of cost shifting, reductions in the Medicare reimbursement rate would lower overall health care spending, and hospitals would absorb the loss in revenue. On aggregate, this would mean a reduction in overall health care spending. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/will-hospital-cost-shifting-blunt-impact-medicare-payment-reform" rel="tag" title="Medicare Payments: Will Hospital Cost-Shifting Blunt the Impact of Reform?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Medicare Payments: Will Hospital Cost-Shifting Blunt the Impact of Reform?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/470#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 25 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 470 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org New Ways to Increase Physical Activity and Play: Using What’s Already in Our Backyards http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/new-ways-to-increase-physical-activity-and-play <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/danielle-marshall"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/danielle_marshall-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Danielle Marshall" title="Danielle Marshall" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/danielle-marshall">Danielle Marshall</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Community Engagement, KaBOOM!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> For individuals fortunate enough to have access to a car, what is it that makes us pack up our things, load the kids or perhaps the family dog and head out across town instead of heading to a local playground we could reach on foot? </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/new-ways-to-increase-physical-activity-and-play" rel="tag" title="New Ways to Increase Physical Activity and Play: Using What’s Already in Our Backyards">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about New Ways to Increase Physical Activity and Play: Using What’s Already in Our Backyards</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/518#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 21 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 518 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Progress Needed on End-of-Life Care http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/progress-needed-end-life-care <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/janice-lynch-schuster"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/janice_schuster86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Janice Lynch Schuster" title="Janice Lynch Schuster" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/janice-lynch-schuster">Janice Lynch Schuster</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Writer, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Palliative care is the thorough assessment and treatment of symptoms, attention to the whole person and support for the entire journey we each will face at the end of life. We know palliative care helps. Let's make it standard care. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/progress-needed-end-life-care" rel="tag" title="Progress Needed on End-of-Life Care">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Progress Needed on End-of-Life Care</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/progress-needed-end-life-care#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/501#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 21 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 501 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Preventive Screenings Could be Harmful to Your Health http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/preventive-screenings-could-be-harmful-to-your-health <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/rochelle-sharpe"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/rochelle_sharpe86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Rochelle Sharpe" title="Rochelle Sharpe" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/rochelle-sharpe">Rochelle Sharpe</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Consumer Reports, which has been rating everything from cars to coffeemakers for the past 75 years, evaluated a different kind of item earlier this year: heart screening tests. The unprecedented move came after the magazine discovered that more than 40 percent of its subscribers had undergone unnecessary heart testing </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/preventive-screenings-could-be-harmful-to-your-health" rel="tag" title="Preventive Screenings Could be Harmful to Your Health">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Preventive Screenings Could be Harmful to Your Health</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/preventive-screenings-could-be-harmful-to-your-health#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/565#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Fri, 15 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 565 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Paving the Way for Successful CLASS Implementation http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/paving-way-successful-class-implementation <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/lisa-shugarman-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/lisa_shugarman.jpg" width="81" height="91" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/lisa-shugarman-phd">Lisa Shugarman, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Policy, The SCAN Foundation</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> A major challenge of the current system of care for adults with functional limitations is the inability of middle-income individuals to protect themselves against the financial risk of needing and accessing available supports and services to help them remain in their homes and communities. Over 10 million Americans need supports and services today due to disabling conditions, and this figure will likely grow due to population aging. In 2008, the cost of this care totaled $264 billion, comprising public, private, and in-kind expenditures. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/paving-way-successful-class-implementation" rel="tag" title="Paving the Way for Successful CLASS Implementation">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Paving the Way for Successful CLASS Implementation</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/399#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 399 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Text4baby: Health Care Providers Are Connecting With Mothers-To-Be Via Cellphones http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/text4baby-health-care-providers-are-connecting-with-mothers-to-be-via-cellphones <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-kenen"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/joanne_kenen-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Joanne Kenen" title="Joanne Kenen" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-kenen">Joanne Kenen</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Text4baby? No, babies in utero are not that tech-savvy, not even in 2011, not yet at least. But a program that sends free health and wellness cellphone text messages to women during pregnancy and the first year of the baby’s life has been getting attention. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/text4baby-health-care-providers-are-connecting-with-mothers-to-be-via-cellphones" rel="tag" title="Text4baby: Health Care Providers Are Connecting With Mothers-To-Be Via Cellphones">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Text4baby: Health Care Providers Are Connecting With Mothers-To-Be Via Cellphones</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/585#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 585 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Obesity: Weighing Down Our Economy http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/obesity-weighing-down-our-economy <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/laura-segal"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/laura_segal-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Laura Segal" title="Laura Segal" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/laura-segal">Laura Segal</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Public Affairs, Trust for America&#039;s Health</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Obesity is one of the most challenging health crises the country has ever faced; obesity-related medical costs and a less productive workforce are hampering America’s ability to compete in the global economy. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/obesity-weighing-down-our-economy" rel="tag" title="Obesity: Weighing Down Our Economy">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Obesity: Weighing Down Our Economy</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/561#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 561 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org How to Recognize a Bent Health Care Cost Curve http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/how-recognize-bent-health-care-cost-curve <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Charles-Roehrig-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Charles Roehrig Photo" title="Charles Roehrig Photo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd">Charles Roehrig, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Vice President and Director, Altarum Center for Sustainable Health Spending</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> As noted in our most recent Health Sector Economic Indicators release, health spending has grown at historically low rates for the past 28 consecutive months (September 2008 through January 2011). In addition, the health spending share of gross domestic product has remained stable since the start of the recovery in June 2009. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/how-recognize-bent-health-care-cost-curve" rel="tag" title="How to Recognize a Bent Health Care Cost Curve">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about How to Recognize a Bent Health Care Cost Curve</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/how-recognize-bent-health-care-cost-curve#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/357#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 28 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Tim Green 357 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Promising Practices: Making the Prevention and Public Health Fund Work for Your Community http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/promising-practices-making-the-prevention-and-public-health-fund-work-for-your-community <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/danielle-marshall"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/danielle_marshall-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Danielle Marshall" title="Danielle Marshall" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/danielle-marshall">Danielle Marshall</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Community Engagement, KaBOOM!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Almost all agree that the rising rate of obesity in the U.S. has spiraled to an alarming rate and that we must take steps to re-introduce healthier lifestyles. What is up for debate is how we get there amidst contrasting schools of thought. At days’ end, the truth is that no one simple answer exists. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/promising-practices-making-the-prevention-and-public-health-fund-work-for-your-community" rel="tag" title="Promising Practices: Making the Prevention and Public Health Fund Work for Your Community">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Promising Practices: Making the Prevention and Public Health Fund Work for Your Community</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/519#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 519 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org From California to the New York Island, a New Understanding of Higher Medicare Spending http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/from-california-to-the-new-york-island-a-new-understanding-of-higher-medicare-spending <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/khn_logo_light.gif" width="120" height="48" alt="Kaiser Health News" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news">Kaiser Health News</a></h2></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Some regions of the country that have been lambasted for high levels of Medicare spending actually are below the national average once the severity of patient sickness and special local expenses are taken into account, according to data from a new government analysis. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/from-california-to-the-new-york-island-a-new-understanding-of-higher-medicare-spending" rel="tag" title="From California to the New York Island, a New Understanding of Higher Medicare Spending">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about From California to the New York Island, a New Understanding of Higher Medicare Spending</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/545#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 545 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The National Prevention Strategy: Catching up with the Nation http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/the-national-prevention-strategy-catching-up-with-the-nation <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/taylor-walsh"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/taylor_walsh86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Taylor Walsh" title="Taylor Walsh" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/taylor-walsh">Taylor Walsh</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Principal, Integrative Health &amp; Wellness Strategies</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> With the nation about to renew its emphasis on wellness and prevention with the delivery of the National Prevention Strategy, it is fair to wonder if the long-established approaches to prevention and health promotion can truly upend their own paradigm and achieve the strategy’s goal of “… Moving the nation from a focus on illness and disease to one based on wellness and prevention.” </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/the-national-prevention-strategy-catching-up-with-the-nation" rel="tag" title="The National Prevention Strategy: Catching up with the Nation">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The National Prevention Strategy: Catching up with the Nation</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/577#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 577 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Public Support for Health Prevention is High, But Confidence in Government Efforts Remains Mixed http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/public-support-for-health-prevention-is-high-but-confidence-in-government-efforts-remains-mixed-2 <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-kenen"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/joanne_kenen-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Joanne Kenen" title="Joanne Kenen" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-kenen">Joanne Kenen</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Prevention is one of those things that everyone can agree on, the health policy world’s equivalent of apple pie (minus the fat and sodium). Except that nowadays, health care is so politicized that no one can agree on anything. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/public-support-for-health-prevention-is-high-but-confidence-in-government-efforts-remains-mixed-2" rel="tag" title="Public Support for Health Prevention is High, But Confidence in Government Efforts Remains Mixed">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Public Support for Health Prevention is High, But Confidence in Government Efforts Remains Mixed</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/586#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 586 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org ACOs: Missing Accountability from a Very Critical Stakeholder http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/acos-missing-accountability-from-a-very-critical-stakeholder <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Wendy-Lynch-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Wendy Lynch Photo" title="Wendy Lynch" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd">Wendy Lynch, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Imagine that you decided to run an Accountable Car-Care Organization. The government announces that you would no longer be paid on repairs alone, but for keeping cars on the road and out of the garage. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/acos-missing-accountability-from-a-very-critical-stakeholder" rel="tag" title="ACOs: Missing Accountability from a Very Critical Stakeholder">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about ACOs: Missing Accountability from a Very Critical Stakeholder</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/599#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 599 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Insurance Trade-Off: Reducing Premiums By Eliminating Expensive Doctors, Hospitals http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/insurance-trade-off-reducing-premiums-by-eliminating-expensive-doctors-hospitals <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/khn_logo_light.gif" width="120" height="48" alt="Kaiser Health News" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news">Kaiser Health News</a></h2></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> When consumers and employers pick health plans, some increasingly are being offered a trade-off these days: They can get a hefty break on their premiums if they agree to pay more out-of-pocket when they use certain high-cost providers in their network or if they cut those providers out of their network altogether. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/insurance-trade-off-reducing-premiums-by-eliminating-expensive-doctors-hospitals" rel="tag" title="Insurance Trade-Off: Reducing Premiums By Eliminating Expensive Doctors, Hospitals">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Insurance Trade-Off: Reducing Premiums By Eliminating Expensive Doctors, Hospitals</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/546#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 08 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 546 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Quality, Cost and ACOs: What Have We Learned from HMOs? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/quality-cost-and-acos-what-have-we-learned-hmos <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/holly-korda-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/holly_korda.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Holly Korda, Ph.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/holly-korda-phd">Holly Korda, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Deputy Director for Strategy and Growth, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> National health reform legislation gave birth to accountable care organizations, which were touted as a model to promote quality and reduce costs of health care delivery, but are they “HMOs on steroids”? </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/quality-cost-and-acos-what-have-we-learned-hmos" rel="tag" title="Quality, Cost and ACOs: What Have We Learned from HMOs?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Quality, Cost and ACOs: What Have We Learned from HMOs?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/495#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 03 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 495 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The (Over)Use of Statin Drugs May be Preventive Medicine Gone Awry http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/news-analysis-the-overuse-of-statin-drugs-may-be-preventive-medicine-gone-awry <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/rochelle-sharpe"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/rochelle_sharpe86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Rochelle Sharpe" title="Rochelle Sharpe" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/rochelle-sharpe">Rochelle Sharpe</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Some health experts are now worrying that our infatuation with statins may be spiraling out of control. Not only do many doctors question whether statins should ever be used to prevent heart disease, but some are dubious that these medications have ever been the miracle drugs they are advertised to be. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/news-analysis-the-overuse-of-statin-drugs-may-be-preventive-medicine-gone-awry" rel="tag" title="The (Over)Use of Statin Drugs May be Preventive Medicine Gone Awry">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The (Over)Use of Statin Drugs May be Preventive Medicine Gone Awry</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/news-analysis-the-overuse-of-statin-drugs-may-be-preventive-medicine-gone-awry#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">11 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/566#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 01 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 566 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Community Development: Creating Healthy Change, One Community at a Time http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/views-opinions-creating-healthy-change-one-community-at-a-time <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/danielle-marshall"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/danielle_marshall-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Danielle Marshall" title="Danielle Marshall" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/danielle-marshall">Danielle Marshall</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Community Engagement, KaBOOM!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> At some point, each of us has been an eyewitness to an injustice or infraction. While it is common to hear grumbles over the country’s current state of affairs, many grievances about the economy, health care, or education reform fail to make it beyond the dinner table or water cooler. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/views-opinions-creating-healthy-change-one-community-at-a-time" rel="tag" title="Community Development: Creating Healthy Change, One Community at a Time">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Community Development: Creating Healthy Change, One Community at a Time</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/520#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 520 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Are There Alternatives to a Mandate? Yes, But They Create More Problems Than They Solve http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/columns-commentary-are-there-alternatives-to-a-mandate-yes-but-they-create-more-problems-than-they-solve <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/zack-cooper"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/zack_cooper86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Zack Cooper" title="Zack Cooper" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/zack-cooper">Zack Cooper</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist, London School of Economics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> These days, the most hotly contested element of the health care reform law is the mandate that requires every American to purchase insurance coverage come 2014. The mandate is a lightning rod for criticism and many have expressed hope that the Supreme Court will deem it unconstitutional </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/columns-commentary-are-there-alternatives-to-a-mandate-yes-but-they-create-more-problems-than-they-solve" rel="tag" title="Are There Alternatives to a Mandate? Yes, But They Create More Problems Than They Solve">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Are There Alternatives to a Mandate? Yes, But They Create More Problems Than They Solve</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/columns-commentary-are-there-alternatives-to-a-mandate-yes-but-they-create-more-problems-than-they-solve#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/523#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 523 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Some Seniors Are In For Sticker Shock on Drug Premiums http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/news-analysis-some-seniors-are-in-for-sticker-shock-on-drug-premiums <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/khn_logo_light.gif" width="120" height="48" alt="Kaiser Health News" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news">Kaiser Health News</a></h2></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> The Obama administration often touts the health-law provision that over the next decade will close the unpopular “doughnut hole”—a gap in Medicare prescription drug coverage. But officials rarely cite another provision, one that might cause sticker shock among some seniors. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/news-analysis-some-seniors-are-in-for-sticker-shock-on-drug-premiums" rel="tag" title="Some Seniors Are In For Sticker Shock on Drug Premiums">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Some Seniors Are In For Sticker Shock on Drug Premiums</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/547#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 547 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Full Capacity Protocol: Simple Changes Can Transform a Hospital http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/news-analysis-full-capacity-protocol-simple-changes-can-transform-a-hospital <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-kenen"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/joanne_kenen-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Joanne Kenen" title="Joanne Kenen" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-kenen">Joanne Kenen</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> “Full Capacity Protocol”—the fancy name for when an emergency department (ED) sends patients “upstairs” whether a bed is available or not—sounds like the clinical version of chutzpah. But it turns out that there is more thought and less bravado (albeit still a dash of chutzpah) in the approach than one might first think. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/news-analysis-full-capacity-protocol-simple-changes-can-transform-a-hospital" rel="tag" title="Full Capacity Protocol: Simple Changes Can Transform a Hospital">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Full Capacity Protocol: Simple Changes Can Transform a Hospital</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/news-analysis-full-capacity-protocol-simple-changes-can-transform-a-hospital#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">3 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/587#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 587 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Small Business Health Care Wish List: Repeal and Replace http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/columns-commentary-small-business-health-care-wish-list-repeal-and-replace <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/robert-f-graboyes-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/robert_graboyes86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Robert Graboyes" title="Robert Graboyes" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/robert-f-graboyes-phd">Robert F. Graboyes, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Fellow for Health and Economics, National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> To start a real dialogue that leads to real reform, here’s the small business position: The past was awful, the present lies somewhere between no-better and much-worse, and the future can be bright if sensible replace follows blessed repeal. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/columns-commentary-small-business-health-care-wish-list-repeal-and-replace" rel="tag" title="Small Business Health Care Wish List: Repeal and Replace">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Small Business Health Care Wish List: Repeal and Replace</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/columns-commentary-small-business-health-care-wish-list-repeal-and-replace#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/581#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 08 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 581 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Public Doesn't Support Cuts To Health Care Programs http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/news-analysis-public-doesnt-support-cuts-to-health-care-programs <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/khn_logo_light.gif" width="120" height="48" alt="Kaiser Health News" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/kaiser-health-news">Kaiser Health News</a></h2></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> As Washington lawmakers face renewed pressure to remedy the country’s trillion-dollar budget deficit, fractured public opinion on where to make critical cuts—in health care and other major entitlement programs—could complicate political strategies in the run up to the 2012 presidential election </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/news-analysis-public-doesnt-support-cuts-to-health-care-programs" rel="tag" title="Public Doesn&#039;t Support Cuts To Health Care Programs">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Public Doesn&#039;t Support Cuts To Health Care Programs</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/news-analysis-public-doesnt-support-cuts-to-health-care-programs#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/548#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 01 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 548 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org New Year’s Resolution: A Healthier America? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/views-opinions-new-year%E2%80%99s-resolution-a-healthier-america <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/laura-segal"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/laura_segal-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Laura Segal" title="Laura Segal" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/laura-segal">Laura Segal</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Public Affairs, Trust for America&#039;s Health</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> January 1st each year millions of us resolve to improve our health—to eat less, exercise more, quit smoking, and so on. Seems simple enough. Sounds like basic willpower. But if staying healthy was that easy—we’d all keep our resolutions. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/views-opinions-new-year%E2%80%99s-resolution-a-healthier-america" rel="tag" title="New Year’s Resolution: A Healthier America?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about New Year’s Resolution: A Healthier America?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/562#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 562 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org We Can’t Bend the Cost Curve Without Talking About Costs http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/columns-commentary-cannot-bend-the-cost-curve-without-talking-about-costs <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Charles-Roehrig-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Charles Roehrig Photo" title="Charles Roehrig Photo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd">Charles Roehrig, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Vice President and Director, Altarum Center for Sustainable Health Spending</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Data from the National Health Statistics Group at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services shows that health spending accounted for 17.6 percent of the gross domestic product in 2009—up a full percentage point from 2008. There was a time when a 10 percent share was viewed as apocalyptic. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/columns-commentary-cannot-bend-the-cost-curve-without-talking-about-costs" rel="tag" title="We Can’t Bend the Cost Curve Without Talking About Costs">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about We Can’t Bend the Cost Curve Without Talking About Costs</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/554#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 554 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Restoring Children's Play: The Case for Unstructured Play and Its Connection to Better Health http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/restoring-childrens-play-the-case-for-unstructured-play-and-its-connection-to-better-health <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/danielle-marshall"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/danielle_marshall-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Danielle Marshall" title="Danielle Marshall" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/danielle-marshall">Danielle Marshall</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Community Engagement, KaBOOM!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Play has been receiving some long-overdue attention in recent months. Major media are abuzz discussing the benefits of play, the consequences of its removal, and how parents and communities can work to actively restore play for their children. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/restoring-childrens-play-the-case-for-unstructured-play-and-its-connection-to-better-health" rel="tag" title="Restoring Children&#039;s Play: The Case for Unstructured Play and Its Connection to Better Health">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Restoring Children&#039;s Play: The Case for Unstructured Play and Its Connection to Better Health</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/restoring-childrens-play-the-case-for-unstructured-play-and-its-connection-to-better-health#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">5 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/521#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 521 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Will "Repeal and Replace" Really Result in "Repeal and Confuse"? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/news-analysis-will-repeal-and-replace-really-result-in-repeal-and-confuse <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-kenen"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/joanne_kenen-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Joanne Kenen" title="Joanne Kenen" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-kenen">Joanne Kenen</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> The Republicans pledged to “repeal and replace” health reform, but some political observers are now concerned that the result could be little more than “repeal and confuse.” </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/news-analysis-will-repeal-and-replace-really-result-in-repeal-and-confuse" rel="tag" title="Will &quot;Repeal and Replace&quot; Really Result in &quot;Repeal and Confuse&quot;?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Will &quot;Repeal and Replace&quot; Really Result in &quot;Repeal and Confuse&quot;?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/news-analysis-will-repeal-and-replace-really-result-in-repeal-and-confuse#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/588#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 18 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 588 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Electronic Health Records for All: Will We Fulfill the Promise or Defer the Dream? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/views-opinions-electronic-health-records-for-all-will-we-fulfill-the-promise-or-defer-the-dream <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/ruth-perot"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/ruth_perot86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Ruth Perot" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/ruth-perot">Ruth Perot</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Executive Director and CEO, Summit Health Institute for Research and Education, Inc.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> A key component of Public Law 111-5, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, is seen by many observers as having the potential to energize the creation of a national high-quality, patient-focused, equitable, and cost-effective health care system. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/views-opinions-electronic-health-records-for-all-will-we-fulfill-the-promise-or-defer-the-dream" rel="tag" title="Electronic Health Records for All: Will We Fulfill the Promise or Defer the Dream?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Electronic Health Records for All: Will We Fulfill the Promise or Defer the Dream?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/views-opinions-electronic-health-records-for-all-will-we-fulfill-the-promise-or-defer-the-dream#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/553#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 553 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Bad Policy Can Kill: A Case Study on Competition from the English National Health Service http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/columns-commentary-bad-policy-can-kill-a-case-study-on-competition-from-the-english-national-health-service <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/zack-cooper"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/zack_cooper86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Zack Cooper" title="Zack Cooper" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/zack-cooper">Zack Cooper</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist, London School of Economics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Over the last six months, a new government in the U.K. has proposed a series of sweeping reforms for the English NHS, many of which I support, including expanding patient choice, increasing quality transparency, and increasing competition. However, the type of competition the new government wants to introduce—simultaneous price and quality competition—has me worried. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/columns-commentary-bad-policy-can-kill-a-case-study-on-competition-from-the-english-national-health-service" rel="tag" title="Bad Policy Can Kill: A Case Study on Competition from the English National Health Service">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Bad Policy Can Kill: A Case Study on Competition from the English National Health Service</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/columns-commentary-bad-policy-can-kill-a-case-study-on-competition-from-the-english-national-health-service#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/524#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 524 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Is a Good Education the Best Medicine of All? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/views-opinions-is-a-good-education-the-best-medicine-of-all <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Wendy-Lynch-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Wendy Lynch Photo" title="Wendy Lynch" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd">Wendy Lynch, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> "Junior, do your homework so you can grow up to be big and strong". There is an undeniable link between education and health, even as we age. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/views-opinions-is-a-good-education-the-best-medicine-of-all" rel="tag" title="Is a Good Education the Best Medicine of All?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Is a Good Education the Best Medicine of All?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/views-opinions-is-a-good-education-the-best-medicine-of-all#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">3 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/600#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 06 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 600 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Competition in Health Care Markets Requires More Regulation, Not Less http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/special-contributor-competition-in-health-care-markets-requires-more-regulation-not-less <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/zack-cooper"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/zack_cooper86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Zack Cooper" title="Zack Cooper" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/zack-cooper">Zack Cooper</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist, London School of Economics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Ultimately, the central lesson emerging from Europe at the moment is that within hospital and insurance markets, it often takes more regulation and a more active state in order to create meaningful competition and productive incentives. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/special-contributor-competition-in-health-care-markets-requires-more-regulation-not-less" rel="tag" title="Competition in Health Care Markets Requires More Regulation, Not Less">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Competition in Health Care Markets Requires More Regulation, Not Less</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/special-contributor-competition-in-health-care-markets-requires-more-regulation-not-less#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/525#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 525 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Pill Popping - Or Pill Stopping? Polypharmacy's Impact on Older Patients http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/special-contributor-pill-popping-or-pill-stopping <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-kenen"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/joanne_kenen-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Joanne Kenen" title="Joanne Kenen" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-kenen">Joanne Kenen</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Some research has established that medications can be cut in nursing home patients with good outcomes. But in the community, where there is often no single doctor keeping track of all the patients’ medicines, it can be challenging. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/special-contributor-pill-popping-or-pill-stopping" rel="tag" title="Pill Popping - Or Pill Stopping? Polypharmacy&#039;s Impact on Older Patients">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Pill Popping - Or Pill Stopping? Polypharmacy&#039;s Impact on Older Patients</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/589#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 589 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Do Electronic Health Records Deliver on Their Promise? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/do-electronic-health-records-deliver-their-promise <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/jennifer-ecklund-johnson"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/jecklund-johnson86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Jennifer Ecklund-Johnson" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/jennifer-ecklund-johnson">Jennifer Ecklund-Johnson</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Health care providers all over the United States are converting from paper-based health record systems to electronic health records (EHRs). But the transition from paper to electronic records does not come without challenges. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/do-electronic-health-records-deliver-their-promise" rel="tag" title="Do Electronic Health Records Deliver on Their Promise?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Do Electronic Health Records Deliver on Their Promise?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/do-electronic-health-records-deliver-their-promise#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">3 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/475#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 30 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 475 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Public Health’s Untold Crisis: The Play Deficit http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/public-health%27s-untold-crisis-the-play-deficit <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/danielle-marshall"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/danielle_marshall-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Danielle Marshall" title="Danielle Marshall" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/danielle-marshall">Danielle Marshall</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Community Engagement, KaBOOM!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> The health of a society should be measured by the health of its play. The play of a healthy society should be rich and varied: imaginative, dramatic, physical, cooperative, solitary. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/public-health%27s-untold-crisis-the-play-deficit" rel="tag" title="Public Health’s Untold Crisis: The Play Deficit">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Public Health’s Untold Crisis: The Play Deficit</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/522#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 522 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Good Managers Are Necessary for Good Hospitals http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/special-contributor-good-managers-are-necessary-for-good-hospitals <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/zack-cooper"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/zack_cooper86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Zack Cooper" title="Zack Cooper" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/zack-cooper">Zack Cooper</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist, London School of Economics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> A recent joint project between the London School of Economics and McKinsey & Company had a powerful central finding: good hospital management leads to good patient outcomes. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/special-contributor-good-managers-are-necessary-for-good-hospitals" rel="tag" title="Good Managers Are Necessary for Good Hospitals">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Good Managers Are Necessary for Good Hospitals</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/526#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 526 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org More Doctors or Busier Nurses? Anticipated Shortages in Primary Care Providers May Demand Both http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/more-doctors-or-busier-nurses-anticipated-shortages-primary-care-providers-may-demand-both <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/jennifer-ecklund-johnson"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/jecklund-johnson86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Jennifer Ecklund-Johnson" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/jennifer-ecklund-johnson">Jennifer Ecklund-Johnson</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Prior to the passage of health reform legislation, the U.S. health care system was already anticipating a shortage of primary care physicians as older physicians retired and fewer medical students appeared ready to take their place. Now, with the potential influx of millions of newly insured patients in 2014 when the full effects of health reform take effect, this potential shortage has become more urgent than ever. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/more-doctors-or-busier-nurses-anticipated-shortages-primary-care-providers-may-demand-both" rel="tag" title="More Doctors or Busier Nurses? Anticipated Shortages in Primary Care Providers May Demand Both">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about More Doctors or Busier Nurses? Anticipated Shortages in Primary Care Providers May Demand Both</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/476#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 476 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Going For the Gold (Star) in Health Care http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/special-contributor-going-for-the-gold-star <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-kenen"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/joanne_kenen-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Joanne Kenen" title="Joanne Kenen" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-kenen">Joanne Kenen</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Better Health, which began in February 2007, involves more than 20 stakeholders including health systems, hospitals, payors, and state and local government. More than 45 participating physician practices—most of which have electronic health records that allow tracking and measurement—take part in learning collaboratives </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/special-contributor-going-for-the-gold-star" rel="tag" title="Going For the Gold (Star) in Health Care ">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Going For the Gold (Star) in Health Care </span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/590#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 19 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 590 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org It’s Our Down Economy That’s Driving Up Health Insurance Premiums http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/special-contributor-it%E2%80%99s-our-down-economy-that%E2%80%99s-driving-up-health-insurance-premiums <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/zack-cooper"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/zack_cooper86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Zack Cooper" title="Zack Cooper" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/zack-cooper">Zack Cooper</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist, London School of Economics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> In 2011, health insurance premiums in the United States are going to rise. In all likelihood, the price increase that consumers are going to see isn’t going to be trivial. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/special-contributor-it%E2%80%99s-our-down-economy-that%E2%80%99s-driving-up-health-insurance-premiums" rel="tag" title="It’s Our Down Economy That’s Driving Up Health Insurance Premiums">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about It’s Our Down Economy That’s Driving Up Health Insurance Premiums</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/special-contributor-it%E2%80%99s-our-down-economy-that%E2%80%99s-driving-up-health-insurance-premiums#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">3 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/527#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 527 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Health Reform and Safety Net Clinics: Preparing for Change http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/health-reform-and-safety-net-clinics-preparing-change <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/jennifer-ecklund-johnson"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/jecklund-johnson86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Jennifer Ecklund-Johnson" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/jennifer-ecklund-johnson">Jennifer Ecklund-Johnson</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> In the midst of health reform, there continues to be uncertainty amongst legislators, the general public, and the health care community about how health reform legislation will affect the actual delivery of health care. One category of health care providers that is expected to face some of the biggest challenges related to health reform is the safety net health clinics. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/health-reform-and-safety-net-clinics-preparing-change" rel="tag" title="Health Reform and Safety Net Clinics: Preparing for Change">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Health Reform and Safety Net Clinics: Preparing for Change</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/477#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 477 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Sending Innovations Abroad. Only a Change in Incentives Will Bring Them Back. http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/viewpoints-health-innovation-sending-innovations-abroad-only-a-change-in-incentives-will-bring-them-back <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Wendy-Lynch-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Wendy Lynch Photo" title="Wendy Lynch" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/wendy-lynch-phd">Wendy Lynch, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director, Altarum Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Innovation requires several things. Certainly, it needs new discovery, but in business it also implies market adoption. In most U.S. industries, this happens through pressure from one (or both) of the following dimensions: 1) improved quality or utility of a product and 2) the price of the product. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/viewpoints-health-innovation-sending-innovations-abroad-only-a-change-in-incentives-will-bring-them-back" rel="tag" title="Sending Innovations Abroad. Only a Change in Incentives Will Bring Them Back.">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Sending Innovations Abroad. Only a Change in Incentives Will Bring Them Back.</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/viewpoints-health-innovation-sending-innovations-abroad-only-a-change-in-incentives-will-bring-them-back#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/601#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 601 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The Senate Needs to Act Now to Fix the Cracks in Our Nation’s Food Safety System http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/special-contributor-the-senate-needs-to-act-now-to-fix-the-cracks-in-our-nation%E2%80%99s-food-safety-system <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/serena-vinter"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/serena_vinter86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Serena Vinter" title="Serena Vinter" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/serena-vinter">Serena Vinter</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Research Associate, Trust for America&#039;s Health</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Year after year Americans are exposed to contaminated foods that enter the nation’s food supply due to an antiquated set of food safety laws that don’t provide the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with the tools and authorities it needs to protect public health. It doesn’t have to be this way. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/special-contributor-the-senate-needs-to-act-now-to-fix-the-cracks-in-our-nation%E2%80%99s-food-safety-system" rel="tag" title="The Senate Needs to Act Now to Fix the Cracks in Our Nation’s Food Safety System">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The Senate Needs to Act Now to Fix the Cracks in Our Nation’s Food Safety System</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/572#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 572 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Health Care Reform and Long-Term Care - The Beginning of System Redesign http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/viewpoints-health-economics-health-care-reform-and-long-term-care-the-beginning-of-system-redesign <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/lisa-shugarman-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/lisa_shugarman.jpg" width="81" height="91" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/lisa-shugarman-phd">Lisa Shugarman, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Policy, The SCAN Foundation</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Medicaid currently pays for half of all long-term care in the United States at a cost of more than $100 billion a year to taxpayers. As a result, state and federal budgets are collapsing under the weight of these skyrocketing expenditures </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/viewpoints-health-economics-health-care-reform-and-long-term-care-the-beginning-of-system-redesign" rel="tag" title="Health Care Reform and Long-Term Care - The Beginning of System Redesign">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Health Care Reform and Long-Term Care - The Beginning of System Redesign</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/viewpoints-health-economics-health-care-reform-and-long-term-care-the-beginning-of-system-redesign#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/570#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 570 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Palliative Care - Difficult Conversations, Significant Results http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/special-contributor-palliative-care-difficult-conversations-significant-results <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/zack-cooper"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/zack_cooper86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Zack Cooper" title="Zack Cooper" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/zack-cooper">Zack Cooper</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist, London School of Economics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Terminal illness is one of the most difficult issues in medicine and health policy. Terminal illness forces us to address end of life care, death, quality of life, and the limits of modern medicine. Terminal illness is also hugely expensive. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/special-contributor-palliative-care-difficult-conversations-significant-results" rel="tag" title="Palliative Care - Difficult Conversations, Significant Results">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Palliative Care - Difficult Conversations, Significant Results</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/528#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 528 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Shared Decision-Making: Ensuring the PPACA Really Makes Health Care Affordable and Sustainable http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/shared-decision-making-ensuring-the-ppaca-really-makes-health-care-affordable-and-sustainable <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/michael-d-parkinson-md"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/michael_parkinson86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Michael D. Parkinson, M.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/michael-d-parkinson-md">Michael D. Parkinson, M.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Altarum Institute Distinguished Scholar</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> When administration officials tout the cost savings potential of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in a lead New England Journal of Medicine article (NEJM.org Aug. 12, 2010), one has to wonder if the statute adequately addresses the core drivers of poor health and excessive health care costs in a way which is understandable and actionable by patients and their doctors. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/shared-decision-making-ensuring-the-ppaca-really-makes-health-care-affordable-and-sustainable" rel="tag" title="Shared Decision-Making: Ensuring the PPACA Really Makes Health Care Affordable and Sustainable">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Shared Decision-Making: Ensuring the PPACA Really Makes Health Care Affordable and Sustainable</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/shared-decision-making-ensuring-the-ppaca-really-makes-health-care-affordable-and-sustainable#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/550#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 550 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Can Cost Outcome Research Really Deliver Savings? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/can-cost-outcome-research-really-deliver-savings <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/jennifer-ecklund-johnson"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/jecklund-johnson86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Jennifer Ecklund-Johnson" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/jennifer-ecklund-johnson">Jennifer Ecklund-Johnson</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Given that the United States has the highest health care costs in the world relative to the size of our economy, it would be hard to argue against the utility of examining where and how our health care dollars are being spent. Finding ways to decrease the cost and burden of health care benefits both patients and the economy. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/can-cost-outcome-research-really-deliver-savings" rel="tag" title="Can Cost Outcome Research Really Deliver Savings?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Can Cost Outcome Research Really Deliver Savings?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/478#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 478 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Building Medical Homes for Medicaid http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/special-contributor-building-medical-homes-for-medicaid <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-kenen"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/joanne_kenen-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Joanne Kenen" title="Joanne Kenen" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-kenen">Joanne Kenen</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Care Oregon, the state’s main Medicaid managed care plan, had two choices a few years ago, after many commercial partners in the Oregon Health Plan decided to get out of the money-draining business. It could go broke. Or it could change its world. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/special-contributor-building-medical-homes-for-medicaid" rel="tag" title="Building Medical Homes for Medicaid">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Building Medical Homes for Medicaid</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/591#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 591 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Learning from Health Care Reform Abroad - More Lessons from the British National Health Service http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/special-contributor-learning-from-health-care-reform-abroad-more-lessons-from-the-british-national-health-service <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/zack-cooper"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/zack_cooper86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Zack Cooper" title="Zack Cooper" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/zack-cooper">Zack Cooper</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist, London School of Economics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Unlike in the U.S., where it’s exceedingly difficult to pass health care legislation, sweeping health care reforms are commonplace in Britain. Because of their parliamentary, winner-takes-all political system, when each new government arrives in power, they almost always introduce broad changes to the National Health Service. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/special-contributor-learning-from-health-care-reform-abroad-more-lessons-from-the-british-national-health-service" rel="tag" title="Learning from Health Care Reform Abroad - More Lessons from the British National Health Service">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Learning from Health Care Reform Abroad - More Lessons from the British National Health Service</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/529#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 03 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 529 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The Uncertain Impact of Health Reform on Hospitals http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/special-contributor-the-uncertain-impact-of-health-reform-on-hospitals <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/jennifer-ecklund-johnson"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/jecklund-johnson86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Jennifer Ecklund-Johnson" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/jennifer-ecklund-johnson">Jennifer Ecklund-Johnson</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Even before President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 5390) into law in March, there was much consternation among health care professionals who believed the results from health reform would negatively affect their bottom line. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/special-contributor-the-uncertain-impact-of-health-reform-on-hospitals" rel="tag" title="The Uncertain Impact of Health Reform on Hospitals">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The Uncertain Impact of Health Reform on Hospitals</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/580#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 580 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Combating PTSD and mTBI: Surfing the Second Wave of Telemental Health http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/surfing-second-wave-telemental-health <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/brad-smith-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/brad_smith.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/brad-smith-phd">Brad Smith, Ph.D</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Research Director for Innovative Care Delivery, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> While there is debate about the precise rate of prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in the population of service members returning from deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan, few would disagree that the sheer number of first and repeat deployments has placed a high demand on the Department of Veteran Affairs and military mental health treatment systems. Compounding the challenge is the key role played by reservists and National Guardsmen in these wars. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/surfing-second-wave-telemental-health" rel="tag" title="Combating PTSD and mTBI: Surfing the Second Wave of Telemental Health">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Combating PTSD and mTBI: Surfing the Second Wave of Telemental Health</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/405#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 405 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org AIDS in America: New AIDS Strategy a Decade-Long Journey http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/new-aids-strategy-a-decade-long-journey <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/jesse-milan-jr-jd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Jesse-Milan-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Jesse Milan Photo" title="Jesse Milan Photo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/jesse-milan-jr-jd">Jesse Milan, Jr., JD</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Vice President and Director, Community Health Systems, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> While plans are only truly useful once successfully implemented, it is a significant accomplishment and newsworthy that the United States now has a plan in place to guide its efforts in combating HIV/AIDS. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/new-aids-strategy-a-decade-long-journey" rel="tag" title="AIDS in America: New AIDS Strategy a Decade-Long Journey">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about AIDS in America: New AIDS Strategy a Decade-Long Journey</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/513#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 513 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Living Large: Are Our Communities Making Us Fat? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/special-contributor-living-large-are-our-communities-making-us-fat <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/serena-vinter"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/serena_vinter86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Serena Vinter" title="Serena Vinter" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/serena-vinter">Serena Vinter</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Research Associate, Trust for America&#039;s Health</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> With the passage of the Affordable Care Act, state, tribal, and local governmental agencies and community-based organizations now have the opportunity to transform their communities into places that offer healthy choices to all residents. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/special-contributor-living-large-are-our-communities-making-us-fat" rel="tag" title="Living Large: Are Our Communities Making Us Fat?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Living Large: Are Our Communities Making Us Fat?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/special-contributor-living-large-are-our-communities-making-us-fat#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/573#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 573 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Going Dutch in U.S. Health Care http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/special-contributor-going-dutch-in-u-s-health-care <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/zack-cooper"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/zack_cooper86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Zack Cooper" title="Zack Cooper" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/zack-cooper">Zack Cooper</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist, London School of Economics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> In the four years since a significant package of health care reforms was enacted in the Netherlands, the Dutch have emerged with a health system that’s innovative, dynamic, and widely viewed by many health policy experts as a blueprint for a high functioning 21st century health care system. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/special-contributor-going-dutch-in-u-s-health-care" rel="tag" title="Going Dutch in U.S. Health Care">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Going Dutch in U.S. Health Care</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/530#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 530 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Reduce Prices, Bend the Cost Curve http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/viewpoints-health-economics-reduce-prices-bend-the-cost-curve <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/dennis-shea-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/dennis_shea86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Dennis Shea, Ph.D." title="Dennis Shea, Ph.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/dennis-shea-phd">Dennis Shea, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Professor of Health Policy and Administration, Pennsylvania State University</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> You don’t hear much about that idea in discussions of health reform and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but a significant part of those deficit-reducing savings will come from reductions in payments to Medicare providers... </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/viewpoints-health-economics-reduce-prices-bend-the-cost-curve" rel="tag" title="Reduce Prices, Bend the Cost Curve">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Reduce Prices, Bend the Cost Curve</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/viewpoints-health-economics-reduce-prices-bend-the-cost-curve#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/567#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 567 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org AGE-ing GRACE-fully http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/special-contributor-age-ing-grace-fully <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-kenen"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/joanne_kenen-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Joanne Kenen" title="Joanne Kenen" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-kenen">Joanne Kenen</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Transitions are one of the weak points in the U.S. health care system. Poor coordination and inadequate communication around transitions is particularly pronounced in the care of frail elderly people with multiple chronic diseases—or maybe an acute illness or injury on top of a whole big bunch of chronic diseases. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/special-contributor-age-ing-grace-fully" rel="tag" title="AGE-ing GRACE-fully">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about AGE-ing GRACE-fully</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/592#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 592 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Health Reform and the Role of Community Partnerships in Promoting Quality and Value http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/viewpoints-health-economics-health-reform-and-the-role-of-community-partnerships-in-promoting-quality-and-value <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/dennis-p-scanlon-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/dennis_scanlon86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Dennis P. Scanlon, Ph.D." title="Dennis P. Scanlon, Ph.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/dennis-p-scanlon-phd">Dennis P. Scanlon, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Professor of Health Policy and Administration, The Pennsylvania State University</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Now that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been signed into law, the key question is whether it will lead to improved quality and better value in health care.</p></div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/viewpoints-health-economics-health-reform-and-the-role-of-community-partnerships-in-promoting-quality-and-value" rel="tag" title="Health Reform and the Role of Community Partnerships in Promoting Quality and Value">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Health Reform and the Role of Community Partnerships in Promoting Quality and Value</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/viewpoints-health-economics-health-reform-and-the-role-of-community-partnerships-in-promoting-quality-and-value#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/559#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 559 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Health Care Reform: Why Was the Health Reform Endgame So Difficult? Ask Ken Arrow. http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/viewpoints-health-economics-why-was-the-health-reform-endgame-so-difficult-ask-ken-arrow <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/timothy-d-mcbride-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/timothy_mcbride86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Timothy D. McBride, Ph.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/timothy-d-mcbride-phd">Timothy D. McBride, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Professor and Associate Dean of Public Health, Washington University</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Certainly now that health reform has been signed into law, most of us are looking toward the future, focusing on the daunting task of implementing this major piece of legislation—perhaps the most significant and wide-reaching piece of social legislation to pass in the last several decades. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/viewpoints-health-economics-why-was-the-health-reform-endgame-so-difficult-ask-ken-arrow" rel="tag" title="Health Care Reform: Why Was the Health Reform Endgame So Difficult? Ask Ken Arrow.">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Health Care Reform: Why Was the Health Reform Endgame So Difficult? Ask Ken Arrow.</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/510#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 510 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Does Mandated Insurance Mean More Paternalistic Public Health Policy? Hopefully Not. http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/special-contributor-does-mandated-insurance-mean-more-paternalistic-public-health-policy-hopefully-not <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/zack-cooper"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/zack_cooper86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Zack Cooper" title="Zack Cooper" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/zack-cooper">Zack Cooper</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist, London School of Economics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> In Britain, because the NHS is funded by taxation, everyone in the country is required to pay for the cost of medical care. However, the amount each person in Britain pays into the NHS is not proportional to what they take out in the form of services, medications, and care. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/special-contributor-does-mandated-insurance-mean-more-paternalistic-public-health-policy-hopefully-not" rel="tag" title="Does Mandated Insurance Mean More Paternalistic Public Health Policy? Hopefully Not.">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Does Mandated Insurance Mean More Paternalistic Public Health Policy? Hopefully Not.</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/special-contributor-does-mandated-insurance-mean-more-paternalistic-public-health-policy-hopefully-not#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/531#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 531 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Was Health Reform A Game Changer for the Long-Term Care Industry? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/was-health-reform-game-changer-long-term-care-industry <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/rachel-lee"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/rachel_lee86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Rachel Lee" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/rachel-lee">Rachel Lee</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Associate with the Senior Living Practice, Dixon Hughes PLLC</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> A little-known provision of the health reform law has the potential to transform long-term care services and delivery. The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act establishes the nation’s first voluntary insurance program to purchase long-term care services and supports from the community. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/was-health-reform-game-changer-long-term-care-industry" rel="tag" title="Was Health Reform A Game Changer for the Long-Term Care Industry?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Was Health Reform A Game Changer for the Long-Term Care Industry?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/was-health-reform-game-changer-long-term-care-industry#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/496#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 25 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 496 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org WIC: A Key Player in the Fight Against Childhood Obesity http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/wic-key-player-fight-against-childhood-obesity <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/patti-hauser"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/patti_hauser86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Patti Hauser" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/patti-hauser">Patti Hauser</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">WIC Program Director, Wisconsin Division of Public Health</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> WIC participation saves taxpayer dollars in the babies’ early years and contributes to the prevention of several chronic diseases in both the mom and the child later in life. WIC is also taking on a very important role in fighting an epidemic that poses one of the greatest new threats to childhood health: obesity. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/wic-key-player-fight-against-childhood-obesity" rel="tag" title="WIC: A Key Player in the Fight Against Childhood Obesity">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about WIC: A Key Player in the Fight Against Childhood Obesity</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/wic-key-player-fight-against-childhood-obesity#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/487#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 17 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 487 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Health Reform Offers New Resources and New Opportunities for Public Health http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/special-contributor-health-reform-offers-new-resources-and-new-opportunities-for-public-health <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/serena-vinter"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/serena_vinter86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Serena Vinter" title="Serena Vinter" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/serena-vinter">Serena Vinter</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Research Associate, Trust for America&#039;s Health</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Lost amid the yearlong debate over health reform and the heated talk of death panels and socialism were some major changes to the way in which the United States funds public health, prevention, and wellness programs as a result of the passage of health reform legislation. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/special-contributor-health-reform-offers-new-resources-and-new-opportunities-for-public-health" rel="tag" title="Health Reform Offers New Resources and New Opportunities for Public Health">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Health Reform Offers New Resources and New Opportunities for Public Health</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/574#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 11 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 574 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The Choice is Simple: Slow Health Care Spending or Raise Taxes http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/special-contributor-the-choice-is-simple-slow-health-care-spending-or-raise-taxes <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/zack-cooper"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/zack_cooper86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Zack Cooper" title="Zack Cooper" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/zack-cooper">Zack Cooper</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist, London School of Economics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Right now in both countries, there’s a push among most politicians to exhort the necessity of reining in our respective national deficits. Politicians in the U.S. and U.K. have hit the stump and said to anyone who will listen that unless deficits are reduced, the consequences for the economy will be dramatic. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/special-contributor-the-choice-is-simple-slow-health-care-spending-or-raise-taxes" rel="tag" title="The Choice is Simple: Slow Health Care Spending or Raise Taxes">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The Choice is Simple: Slow Health Care Spending or Raise Taxes</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/532#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 04 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 532 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Health Reform - New Burdens for Small Business http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/viewpoints-health-economics-health-reform-new-burdens-for-small-business <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/robert-f-graboyes-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/robert_graboyes86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Robert Graboyes" title="Robert Graboyes" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/robert-f-graboyes-phd">Robert F. Graboyes, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Fellow for Health and Economics, National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Health care reform is now the law of the land, and the rollout has begun. If the law stands without major revision, only time will tell how it ultimately affects health care costs, coverage, and quality. Like everyone else, I have my own thoughts, but opinion and forecast must give way to reality. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/viewpoints-health-economics-health-reform-new-burdens-for-small-business" rel="tag" title="Health Reform - New Burdens for Small Business">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Health Reform - New Burdens for Small Business</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/582#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 582 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Centering - Better Health Care Without Higher Costs http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/special-contributor-centering-better-health-care-without-higher-costs <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-kenen"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/joanne_kenen-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Joanne Kenen" title="Joanne Kenen" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-kenen">Joanne Kenen</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Eight months pregnant, Elvira, 28, was poised, articulate and confident through a two-hour prenatal class. Then she formed a circle with 10 other mothers-to-be, caught a skein of bright pink yarn a nurse tossed to her, and burst into tears of gratitude. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/special-contributor-centering-better-health-care-without-higher-costs" rel="tag" title="Centering - Better Health Care Without Higher Costs">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Centering - Better Health Care Without Higher Costs</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/593#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 20 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 593 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The Medical Community's View on Health Reform http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/viewpoints-the-ama%E2%80%99s-view-on-health-reform <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/j-james-rohack-md"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/j_james_rohack86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="J. James Rohack, M.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/j-james-rohack-md">J. James Rohack, M.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Cardiologist, Scott &amp; White Clinic</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Our country recently took an historic and long overdue step toward health system reform. While the new law is not perfect and more still needs to be done, this sweeping reform package will greatly benefit America’s patients and their physicians. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/viewpoints-the-ama%E2%80%99s-view-on-health-reform" rel="tag" title="The Medical Community&#039;s View on Health Reform">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The Medical Community&#039;s View on Health Reform</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/555#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 555 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Health Care Reform: We’ve Really Only Just Begun http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/special-contributor-health-care-reform-we%E2%80%99ve-really-only-just-begun <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/zack-cooper"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/zack_cooper86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Zack Cooper" title="Zack Cooper" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/zack-cooper">Zack Cooper</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist, London School of Economics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> On March 23, President Obama signed the Affordable Health Care for America Act. This legislation will go down as one of the most significant pieces of social policy legislation that Congress has ever passed. Sure, the legislation isn’t perfect—no law ever is—but it expands coverage to 32 million Americans </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/special-contributor-health-care-reform-we%E2%80%99ve-really-only-just-begun" rel="tag" title="Health Care Reform: We’ve Really Only Just Begun">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Health Care Reform: We’ve Really Only Just Begun</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/533#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 533 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org What We Really Do – and Don’t – Know About Health in This Nation http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/what-we-really-do-and-do-not-know-about-health-nation <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/david-kindig-md-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/david_kindig86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="David Kindig, M.D., Ph.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/david-kindig-md-phd">David Kindig, M.D., Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Altarum Institute Distinguished Scholar </div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> What do we know about the levels of population health and the state of medical care and the many other determinants of health across the United States? Despite years of data collection, it has been difficult to gain a comprehensive view of population health. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/what-we-really-do-and-do-not-know-about-health-nation" rel="tag" title="What We Really Do – and Don’t – Know About Health in This Nation">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about What We Really Do – and Don’t – Know About Health in This Nation</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/what-we-really-do-and-do-not-know-about-health-nation#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/493#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 493 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Can the First Lady Solve the Childhood Obesity Epidemic? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/special-contributor-can-the-first-lady-solve-the-childhood-obesity-epidemic <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/serena-vinter"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/serena_vinter86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Serena Vinter" title="Serena Vinter" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/serena-vinter">Serena Vinter</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Research Associate, Trust for America&#039;s Health</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> There’s no doubt Mrs. Obama’s Let’s Move campaign has re-energized public health officials, community health workers, and advocates who have been fighting the childhood obesity epidemic for years. But the latest numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show just what a challenge solving the problem will be </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/special-contributor-can-the-first-lady-solve-the-childhood-obesity-epidemic" rel="tag" title="Can the First Lady Solve the Childhood Obesity Epidemic?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Can the First Lady Solve the Childhood Obesity Epidemic?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/special-contributor-can-the-first-lady-solve-the-childhood-obesity-epidemic#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/575#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 575 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Seeking Solutions From IT Instead of From People http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/seeking-solutions-it-instead-people <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/david-c-kibbe-md-mba"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/David_Kibbe86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Dr. David C. Kibbe" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/david-c-kibbe-md-mba">David C. Kibbe, M.D., M.B.A.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Principal, The Kibbe Group LLC</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> When I first came to “Health 2.0” and joined ranks with folks who were leading this charge, it was because I was so thoroughly discouraged by the realm of health information technology for physicians and hospitals and disappointed with both the vendors of electronic health record technology and most of their customers. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/seeking-solutions-it-instead-people" rel="tag" title="Seeking Solutions From IT Instead of From People">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Seeking Solutions From IT Instead of From People</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/491#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 491 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Complexity in Health Care Can’t Be a Vice http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/special-contributor-complexity-in-health-care-can%E2%80%99t-be-a-vice <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/zack-cooper"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/zack_cooper86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Zack Cooper" title="Zack Cooper" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/zack-cooper">Zack Cooper</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist, London School of Economics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Health care reform is testing the United State’s capacity to address big issues and has highlighted glaring flaws in the legislative process. What’s clear by now is that it’s tough to boil health care policy down into concise talking points and it’s nearly impossible to sell sensible reforms politically. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/special-contributor-complexity-in-health-care-can%E2%80%99t-be-a-vice" rel="tag" title="Complexity in Health Care Can’t Be a Vice">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Complexity in Health Care Can’t Be a Vice</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/534#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 534 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The Spread of Obesity in Developing and Transitional Countries http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/viewpoints-the-spread-of-obesity-in-developing-and-transitional-countries <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/lisa-pawloski-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/lisa_pawloski86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Lisa Pawloski, Ph.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/lisa-pawloski-phd">Lisa Pawloski, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Global and Community Health, George Mason University </div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Obesity is increasingly becoming an epidemic in industrialized nations, particularly in the U.S. where one out of every three adults is obese. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/viewpoints-the-spread-of-obesity-in-developing-and-transitional-countries" rel="tag" title="The Spread of Obesity in Developing and Transitional Countries">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The Spread of Obesity in Developing and Transitional Countries</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/551#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 551 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Will Nutrition Labels on Menus Make America Healthy, Wealthy, and Svelte? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/special-contributor-will-nutrition-labels-on-menus-make-america-healthy-wealthy-and-svelte <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-kenen"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/joanne_kenen-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Joanne Kenen" title="Joanne Kenen" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-kenen">Joanne Kenen</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> One perverse side effect of the stalled national health reform legislation is that popular, commonsense provisions tucked in the bills get stuck too. That includes the restaurant menu labeling requirement, which has support from Democrats; Republicans; the public health community; and, more recently, even the fast-food industry. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/special-contributor-will-nutrition-labels-on-menus-make-america-healthy-wealthy-and-svelte" rel="tag" title="Will Nutrition Labels on Menus Make America Healthy, Wealthy, and Svelte?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Will Nutrition Labels on Menus Make America Healthy, Wealthy, and Svelte?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/594#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 594 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Achieving Person-Centered Care Through Accountable Care Organizations http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/views-opinions-achieving-person-centered-care-through-accountable-care-organizations <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/lisa-shugarman-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/lisa_shugarman.jpg" width="81" height="91" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/lisa-shugarman-phd">Lisa Shugarman, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Director of Policy, The SCAN Foundation</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> As the nation ages, health care must evolve to focus around three critical factors: adopting person- and family-centered engagement with older adults who have complex care needs, improving the health of the older population as a whole, and improving cost efficiency. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/views-opinions-achieving-person-centered-care-through-accountable-care-organizations" rel="tag" title="Achieving Person-Centered Care Through Accountable Care Organizations">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Achieving Person-Centered Care Through Accountable Care Organizations</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/views-opinions-achieving-person-centered-care-through-accountable-care-organizations#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/569#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 569 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The Challenge of Monopolies in U.S. Health Care - England May Help Illustrate the Solution http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/special-contributor-the-challenge-of-monopolies-in-u-s-health-care-england-may-help-illustrate-the-solution <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/zack-cooper"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/zack_cooper86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Zack Cooper" title="Zack Cooper" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/zack-cooper">Zack Cooper</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist, London School of Economics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> In the U.S., private-sector insurers hold a powerful monopoly in insurance markets, and this hinders progress. Conversely, in the U.K., it has historically been the government-run hospitals’ monopoly power that was hampering improvements. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/special-contributor-the-challenge-of-monopolies-in-u-s-health-care-england-may-help-illustrate-the-solution" rel="tag" title="The Challenge of Monopolies in U.S. Health Care - England May Help Illustrate the Solution">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The Challenge of Monopolies in U.S. Health Care - England May Help Illustrate the Solution</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/535#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 535 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org A Crucial Tool in Fighting Childhood Obesity: Monitoring Body Mass Index http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/crucial-tool-fighting-childhood-obesity-monitoring-body-mass-index <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/cong-ron-kind"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/ron_kind86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Cong. Ron Kind" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/cong-ron-kind">Cong. Ron Kind</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">US House of Representatives, 3rd District of Wisconsin</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> It’s no secret that childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of obese children has tripled since 1980. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/crucial-tool-fighting-childhood-obesity-monitoring-body-mass-index" rel="tag" title="A Crucial Tool in Fighting Childhood Obesity: Monitoring Body Mass Index">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about A Crucial Tool in Fighting Childhood Obesity: Monitoring Body Mass Index</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/492#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 492 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Give High School Students Healthy Transportation Choices, Too http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/give-high-school-students-healthy-transportation-choices-too <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/cong-earl-blumenauer"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/earl_blumenauer86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Cong. Earl Blumenauer" title="Cong. Earl Blumenauer" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/cong-earl-blumenauer">Cong. Earl Blumenauer</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">US House of Representatives, 3rd District of Oregon</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> We all recognize the signs of a livable community: people biking and kids walking safely around their neighborhoods. These are important forms of commuting that also contribute to a community’s vitality. This is especially true for children, who should be able to securely walk and bike to their most important destinations: schools, parks, and their friends’ homes. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/give-high-school-students-healthy-transportation-choices-too" rel="tag" title="Give High School Students Healthy Transportation Choices, Too">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Give High School Students Healthy Transportation Choices, Too</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/461#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 461 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org World AIDS Day: A Time to Take Stock of Our Health http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/world-aids-day-a-time-to-take-stock-of-our-health <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/jesse-milan-jr-jd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Jesse-Milan-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Jesse Milan Photo" title="Jesse Milan Photo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/jesse-milan-jr-jd">Jesse Milan, Jr., JD</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Vice President and Director, Community Health Systems, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> So many of us work hard to look healthy on the outside; let’s also spend time protecting our health on the inside. Too many gay men hope they are HIV-negative but don’t know for sure. Too many who are positive don’t know that they are, and may be infecting others. Too many of us worry alone. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/world-aids-day-a-time-to-take-stock-of-our-health" rel="tag" title="World AIDS Day: A Time to Take Stock of Our Health">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about World AIDS Day: A Time to Take Stock of Our Health</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/512#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 512 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Of Carrot Cake and Oreos http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/viewpoints-of-carrot-cake-and-oreos <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/joanne-kenen"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/joanne_kenen-91x91.jpg" width="91" height="91" alt="Joanne Kenen" title="Joanne Kenen" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/joanne-kenen">Joanne Kenen</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Policy Forum Contributing Writer</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Dr. David Kessler, as you’ve probably heard, is out with a terrific best-seller called The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite. The cover grabs your attention: very pure white glossy background with a carrot cake and carrots. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/viewpoints-of-carrot-cake-and-oreos" rel="tag" title="Of Carrot Cake and Oreos">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Of Carrot Cake and Oreos</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/595#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 595 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org How Health Reform Can Improve End-of-Life Care http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/how-health-reform-can-improve-end-life-care <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/sydney-dy-md"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/sydney_dy86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Sydney Dy, M.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/sydney-dy-md">Sydney Dy, M.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Health care reform offers significant opportunities not only to improve the quality of end-of-life care, but to apply the principles of good end-of-life care to improving our health care system. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/how-health-reform-can-improve-end-life-care" rel="tag" title="How Health Reform Can Improve End-of-Life Care">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about How Health Reform Can Improve End-of-Life Care</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/474#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 474 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Immigrants and Health Care – The Real Numbers and Policy Implications http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/viewpoints-immigrants-and-health-care-%E2%80%93-the-real-numbers-and-policy-implications <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/marc-r-rosenblum"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/marc_rosenblum86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Marc R. Rosenblum" title="Marc R. Rosenblum" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/marc-r-rosenblum">Marc R. Rosenblum</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> As the House and Senate move toward the final outlines of health care reform legislation, they confront important questions about how proposals might apply to immigrants </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/viewpoints-immigrants-and-health-care-%E2%80%93-the-real-numbers-and-policy-implications" rel="tag" title="Immigrants and Health Care – The Real Numbers and Policy Implications">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Immigrants and Health Care – The Real Numbers and Policy Implications</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/558#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 558 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org The Challenge of Modern Health Information Privacy Laws http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/challenge-modern-health-information-privacy-laws <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/james-hodge"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/james_hodge86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="James Hodge" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/james-hodge">James Hodge</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Lincoln Professor of Health, Law and Ethics, ASU Sandra Day O&#039;Connor College of Law</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Access to identifiable health data among multiple groups continues to grow exponentially as digital personal health records (PHRs) become pervasive. Ongoing national health care reform efforts may only increase demands for greater public and private sector access to health data... </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/challenge-modern-health-information-privacy-laws" rel="tag" title="The Challenge of Modern Health Information Privacy Laws">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about The Challenge of Modern Health Information Privacy Laws</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/488#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 488 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Health Information Technology: A Tool for Health Equity and System Transformation http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/health-information-technology-tool-health-equity-and-system-transformation <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/ruth-perot"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/ruth_perot86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Ruth Perot" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/ruth-perot">Ruth Perot</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Executive Director and CEO, Summit Health Institute for Research and Education, Inc.</div></div></div></div></div><div class="field-item odd"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/russell-davis-dpa-mapt"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/russell_davis86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Russell Davis, D.P.A., M.A.P.T." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/russell-davis-dpa-mapt">Russell Davis, D.P.A., M.A.P.T.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">President, Summit Health Institute for Research and Education, Inc.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Since 1985, the issue of racial and ethnic health disparities has crept to the center stage of public policy, with a large volume of evidence amassed to demonstrate the presence and impact of these disparities. Today, an overwhelming consensus with respect to research on racial and ethnic health disparities — the existence of disparities and the need to eliminate them — has led some stakeholders to conclude that it is time for a paradigm shift. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/health-information-technology-tool-health-equity-and-system-transformation" rel="tag" title="Health Information Technology: A Tool for Health Equity and System Transformation">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Health Information Technology: A Tool for Health Equity and System Transformation</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/472#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 472 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Message to the Senate Finance Committee: More Dynamism, Less Politicking http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/message-to-the-senate-finance-committee-more-dynamism-less-politicking <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/zack-cooper"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/zack_cooper86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Zack Cooper" title="Zack Cooper" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/zack-cooper">Zack Cooper</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist, London School of Economics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Sen. Max Baucus’s America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009 has received a tepid reception from Democrats and Republicans alike. That’s precisely because Sen. Baucus’s bill embodies compromise, mutual conciliation, and moderation. While pragmatism and expediency are laudable goals, they are apt to produce uninspiring results, and that’s what we’ve gotten in the Healthy Future Act. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/message-to-the-senate-finance-committee-more-dynamism-less-politicking" rel="tag" title="Message to the Senate Finance Committee: More Dynamism, Less Politicking">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Message to the Senate Finance Committee: More Dynamism, Less Politicking</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/536#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 536 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org How Much Should We Really Spend on Preventive Care? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/how-much-should-we-really-spend-on-preventive-care <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/george-miller-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/george_miller86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="George Miller, Ph.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/george-miller-phd">George Miller, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Altarum Institute Fellow</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Because “prevention accounts for only two to three percent of health care expenditures,” we could achieve significant savings in future health care costs by devoting more money to preventive measures. Unfortunately, this argument is flawed. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/how-much-should-we-really-spend-on-preventive-care" rel="tag" title="How Much Should We Really Spend on Preventive Care?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about How Much Should We Really Spend on Preventive Care?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/539#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 539 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Cheap Political Victories and End of Life Care: A Better End for Anyone? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/cheap-political-victories-and-end-life-care-better-end-anyone <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/janice-lynch-schuster"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/janice_schuster86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Janice Lynch Schuster" title="Janice Lynch Schuster" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/janice-lynch-schuster">Janice Lynch Schuster</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Writer, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> As if just talking about dying weren’t hard enough for most of us, now comes the disinformation campaign about end-of-life care discussions waged by opponents of health care reform. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/cheap-political-victories-and-end-life-care-better-end-anyone" rel="tag" title="Cheap Political Victories and End of Life Care: A Better End for Anyone?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Cheap Political Victories and End of Life Care: A Better End for Anyone?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/502#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 502 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Incentives, Incentives, Incentives (and Adverse Selection) http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/path/viewpoints-incentives-incentives-incentives-and-adverse-selection <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/zack-cooper"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/zack_cooper86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Zack Cooper" title="Zack Cooper" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/zack-cooper">Zack Cooper</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist, London School of Economics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Some believe that too much competition has been the catalyst for rising health care costs and inefficiency in the American health care market. I disagree. I believe that the U.S. insurance market actually suffers from too little competition. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/path/viewpoints-incentives-incentives-incentives-and-adverse-selection" rel="tag" title="Incentives, Incentives, Incentives (and Adverse Selection)">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Incentives, Incentives, Incentives (and Adverse Selection)</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/537#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 537 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Looking Back at Hurricane Katrina: Is Our Public Health System More Prepared? http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/viewpoints-looking-back-at-katrina-are-we-more-prepared <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/serena-vinter"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/serena_vinter86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Serena Vinter" title="Serena Vinter" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/serena-vinter">Serena Vinter</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Research Associate, Trust for America&#039;s Health</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Four years ago this week – August 28, 2005 to be precise – Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast region, killing more than 1,800 people and causing more than $81 billion in damages. The devastating storm left the region’s public health and health care systems in shambles from which they are still trying to recover years later. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/viewpoints-looking-back-at-katrina-are-we-more-prepared" rel="tag" title="Looking Back at Hurricane Katrina: Is Our Public Health System More Prepared?">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Looking Back at Hurricane Katrina: Is Our Public Health System More Prepared?</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/576#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 576 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Health Care Costs, Health Savings Accounts, and a Transformed Health System http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/health-care-costs-health-savings-accounts-and-transformed-health-system <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/paul-hughes-cromwick"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/paul_hughes_cromwick86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/paul-hughes-cromwick">Paul Hughes-Cromwick</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist and Senior Analyst, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Health care should be consumer driven for reasons of both efficiency and ethics. When in possession of adequate information and faced with appropriate incentives, consumers make better choices for their own health than does any third party, regardless of whether that third party is motivated by the most worthy of intentions. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/health-care-costs-health-savings-accounts-and-transformed-health-system" rel="tag" title="Health Care Costs, Health Savings Accounts, and a Transformed Health System">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Health Care Costs, Health Savings Accounts, and a Transformed Health System</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/490#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 490 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org An Economist’s Perspective on Health Care Reform http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/viewpoints-an-economists-perspective-on-health-care-reform <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/mark-zandi-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/mark_zandi86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Mark Zandi, Ph.D." title="Mark Zandi, Ph.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/mark-zandi-phd">Mark Zandi, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Chief Economist and Cofounder, Moody&#039;s Economy.com</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> To be successful, healthcare reform must pay for extending coverage to the uninsured while credibly controlling future costs. Current proposals include a mandate for employers, a public insurance option, and tax increases on high-income households. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/viewpoints-an-economists-perspective-on-health-care-reform" rel="tag" title="An Economist’s Perspective on Health Care Reform">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about An Economist’s Perspective on Health Care Reform</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/viewpoints-an-economists-perspective-on-health-care-reform#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">1 comment</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/627#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 627 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Incentives, Incentives, Incentives (and Risk Selection) http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/viewpoints-incentives-incentives-incentives-and-risk-selection <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/zack-cooper"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/zack_cooper86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Zack Cooper" title="Zack Cooper" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/zack-cooper">Zack Cooper</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist, London School of Economics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> If any major health care legislation is passed in the United States in 2009, it will almost certainly involve some form of an insurance exchange. This post focuses on why policymakers are eager to create an exchange and the detrimental impact of risk selection on true competition in an insurance exchange. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/viewpoints-incentives-incentives-incentives-and-risk-selection" rel="tag" title="Incentives, Incentives, Incentives (and Risk Selection)">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Incentives, Incentives, Incentives (and Risk Selection)</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/607#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 607 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Electronic Medical Information is Critical for Returning Service Members http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/electronic-medical-information-critical-returning-service-members <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/cong-steve-buyer"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/steve_buyer86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Cong. Steve Buyer" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/cong-steve-buyer">Cong. Steve Buyer</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">US House of Representatives, 4th District of Indiana</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Two years have passed since a Washington Post article revealed some instances of inadequate treatment of soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The resulting public outcry and concern for our nation’s veterans led to a number of investigations and inquiries on what should be done to support wounded service members. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/electronic-medical-information-critical-returning-service-members" rel="tag" title="Electronic Medical Information is Critical for Returning Service Members">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Electronic Medical Information is Critical for Returning Service Members</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/463#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 463 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org AIDS in America: Creating a National AIDS Strategy With Impact http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/creating-national-aids-strategy-impact <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/chris-collins"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/chris_collins86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/chris-collins">Chris Collins</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Vice President and Director of Public Policy, amfAR</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> The campaign to create a National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NAS) for the United States has been a remarkable success so far. Over the last two years, the concept has won support from hundreds of organizations and more than 1,000 individuals. They all endorsed a Call to Action demanding a more coordinated, accountable, and results-oriented response to AIDS in our country. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/creating-national-aids-strategy-impact" rel="tag" title="AIDS in America: Creating a National AIDS Strategy With Impact">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about AIDS in America: Creating a National AIDS Strategy With Impact</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/466#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 466 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Barriers, Roadblocks, and Opportunities: A Pathway to Health Care Reform in the United States http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/viewpoints-barriers-roadblocks-and-opportunities-a-pathway-to-health-care-reform-in-the-united-states <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/zack-cooper"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/zack_cooper86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Zack Cooper" title="Zack Cooper" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/zack-cooper">Zack Cooper</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Health Economist, London School of Economics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Broad reform of the U.S. health care system could save $3 trillion by 2020, expand coverage to 99 percent of Americans, and save 100,000 lives annually...If that is the prize on offer, why is health care reform so difficult and what is standing in the way of President Obama and Congress succeeding? </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/viewpoints-barriers-roadblocks-and-opportunities-a-pathway-to-health-care-reform-in-the-united-states" rel="tag" title="Barriers, Roadblocks, and Opportunities: A Pathway to Health Care Reform in the United States">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Barriers, Roadblocks, and Opportunities: A Pathway to Health Care Reform in the United States</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/538#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 538 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Health Is Not Just About Health Care http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/health-is-not-just-about-health-care <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/david-r-williams-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/david_williams86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="David R. Williams, Ph.D." title="David R. Williams, Ph.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/david-r-williams-phd">David R. Williams, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Altarum Institute Distinguished Scholar</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America, of which I have served as staff director, recently released its report with 10 recommendations that we believe will allow Americans – particularly those who face the greatest barriers to good health – to lead healthy lives. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/health-is-not-just-about-health-care" rel="tag" title="Health Is Not Just About Health Care">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Health Is Not Just About Health Care</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/health-is-not-just-about-health-care#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">4 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/578#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 578 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Celebrating the Health Benefits of Biking http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/celebrating-health-benefits-biking <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/cong-earl-blumenauer"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/earl_blumenauer86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Cong. Earl Blumenauer" title="Cong. Earl Blumenauer" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/cong-earl-blumenauer">Cong. Earl Blumenauer</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">US House of Representatives, 3rd District of Oregon</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Last May, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution naming May “National Bicycle Month,” giving federal recognition to our most efficient form of transportation. Several months later, the Bicycle Commuter Act was signed into law, enabling bicycle commuters to receive tax-free benefits for their unique contributions reducing traffic congestion and air pollution while improving their own health. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/celebrating-health-benefits-biking" rel="tag" title="Celebrating the Health Benefits of Biking">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Celebrating the Health Benefits of Biking</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/462#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Wed, 27 May 2009 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 462 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Children Should Be a Focus of Health Reform http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/children-should-be-focus-health-reform <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/charles-homer-md"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/charles_homer86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Charles Homer, M.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/charles-homer-md">Charles Homer, M.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">President and CEO, National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> While there is certainly no magic bullet, constructing a system that keeps in mind the needs of families and children will prove crucial to the integrity of the system as a whole. Improvement will certainly require simultaneous efforts on a number of fronts, but building a system around the needs of our children will create health care that embodies our values, delivers effectively, and eventually lowers cost. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/children-should-be-focus-health-reform" rel="tag" title="Children Should Be a Focus of Health Reform">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Children Should Be a Focus of Health Reform</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/489#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 21 May 2009 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 489 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Childhood Obesity Prevention - A Promising New Method for Tackling the Epidemic http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/childhood-obesity-prevention-promising-new-method-tackling-epidemic <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/matt-longjohn-md-mph"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/matt_longjohn86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Matt Longjohn, M.D., M.P.H." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/matt-longjohn-md-mph">Matt Longjohn, M.D., M.P.H.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Co-Project Director, Altarum Institute Childhood Obesity Prevention Mission Project</div></div></div></div></div><div class="field-item odd"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/amy-sheon-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/amy_sheon86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Amy Sheon, Ph.D." title="Amy Sheon, Ph.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/amy-sheon-phd">Amy Sheon, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Former Co-Director, Altarum Institute Childhood Obesity Prevention Mission Project</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> As we begin again to consider health care reform in this nation, the issue of childhood obesity should not be ignored. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/childhood-obesity-prevention-promising-new-method-tackling-epidemic" rel="tag" title="Childhood Obesity Prevention - A Promising New Method for Tackling the Epidemic">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Childhood Obesity Prevention - A Promising New Method for Tackling the Epidemic</span></a></li> <li class="comment-comments"><a href="/post/childhood-obesity-prevention-promising-new-method-tackling-epidemic#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting.">2 comments</a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/497#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Wed, 06 May 2009 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 497 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Why Health Care Reform Can't Wait http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/why-health-care-reform-cant-wait <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/cong-john-d-dingell"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/john_dingell86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Cong. John D. Dingell" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/cong-john-d-dingell">Cong. John D. Dingell</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">US House of Representatives, 15th District of Michigan</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> I believe today we face one of the most important decisions in our Nation’s history—how to address the insolvency of our health care system that threatens to decimate our country’s budget, stability, and overall wellbeing. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/why-health-care-reform-cant-wait" rel="tag" title="Why Health Care Reform Can&#039;t Wait">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Why Health Care Reform Can&#039;t Wait</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/473#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 473 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org An Rx For Health Care Reform http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/viewpoints-an-rx-for-health-care-reform <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/j-james-rohack-md"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/j_james_rohack86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="J. James Rohack, M.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/j-james-rohack-md">J. James Rohack, M.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Cardiologist, Scott &amp; White Clinic</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> As unemployment rises to its highest level in 24 years, one expected consequence is an increase in the number of Americans who may forgo needed health care because they lost their health insurance along with their job. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/viewpoints-an-rx-for-health-care-reform" rel="tag" title="An Rx For Health Care Reform">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about An Rx For Health Care Reform</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/556#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 556 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Health Care Reform: Decent Care as a Key Value http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/decent-care-key-values-health-care-reform <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/jesse-milan-jr-jd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Jesse-Milan-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Jesse Milan Photo" title="Jesse Milan Photo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/jesse-milan-jr-jd">Jesse Milan, Jr., JD</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Vice President and Director, Community Health Systems, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div><div class="field-item odd"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/janice-lynch-schuster"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/janice_schuster86x92_0.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Janice Lynch Schuster" title="Janice Lynch Schuster" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/janice-lynch-schuster">Janice Lynch Schuster</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senior Writer, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> “Decent care” offers a new approach to health care that seeks to acknowledge and apply universal human values of decency. Just as the concept of “decent work” sought to name and redefine the conditions of work in the industrial age, decent care seeks no less than to redefine and describe values that are essential to primary health worldwide. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/decent-care-key-values-health-care-reform" rel="tag" title="Health Care Reform: Decent Care as a Key Value">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Health Care Reform: Decent Care as a Key Value</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/503#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 503 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Meeting the Need: The Launch of the Mission Projects Initiative http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/mission-project-initiative <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/lincoln-smith"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/lincoln_smith86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Lincoln Smith" title="Lincoln Smith" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/lincoln-smith">Lincoln Smith</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">President and Chief Executive Officer, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> With the Mission Projects Initiative, we are attempting to solve pressing health issues facing our nation, problems that now affect the quality of life of millions of Americans. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/mission-project-initiative" rel="tag" title="Meeting the Need: The Launch of the Mission Projects Initiative">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Meeting the Need: The Launch of the Mission Projects Initiative</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/571#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 571 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org Evaluating the Obama Health Plan: We Need Both Short-Term Affordability and Long-Term Sustainability http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/evaluating-obama-health-plan <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Charles-Roehrig-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Charles Roehrig Photo" title="Charles Roehrig Photo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/charles-roehrig-phd">Charles Roehrig, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Vice President and Director, Altarum Center for Sustainable Health Spending</div></div></div></div></div><div class="field-item odd"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/george-miller-phd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/george_miller86x92.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="George Miller, Ph.D." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/george-miller-phd">George Miller, Ph.D.</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Altarum Institute Fellow</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> Although there is considerable attention paid to addressing cost growth and investing in public health and prevention, the most noteworthy aspect of Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s health care plan is its focus on attempting to make insurance affordable for all Americans </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/evaluating-obama-health-plan" rel="tag" title="Evaluating the Obama Health Plan: We Need Both Short-Term Affordability and Long-Term Sustainability">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Evaluating the Obama Health Plan: We Need Both Short-Term Affordability and Long-Term Sustainability</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/540#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:01:00 +0000 Connie Harich 540 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org HIV and the Workplace: Making the Business Case for HIV Workplace Partnerships http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/post/hiv-workplace-partnerships <div class="field field-name-field-post-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="ds-1col node node-author view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts view-mode-author_info_top_of_posts clearfix "> <div class="field field-name-field-author-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/author/jesse-milan-jr-jd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.healthpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/styles/120_pixels_wide/public/author_photos/Jesse-Milan-Photo-for-HPF.jpg" width="86" height="92" alt="Jesse Milan Photo" title="Jesse Milan Photo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h2><a href="/author/jesse-milan-jr-jd">Jesse Milan, Jr., JD</a></h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Vice President and Director, Community Health Systems, Altarum Institute</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> HIV is everyone’s business; whether we want it to be or not. Yet after 27 years of the pandemic, AIDS is still not everyone’s concern. Too many people who should know their HIV status still don’t. Too many people who should be in treatment and care still are not. </div></div></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/post/hiv-workplace-partnerships" rel="tag" title="HIV and the Workplace: Making the Business Case for HIV Workplace Partnerships">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about HIV and the Workplace: Making the Business Case for HIV Workplace Partnerships</span></a></li> <li class="comment-add last"><a href="/comment/reply/514#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000 Connie Harich 514 at http://www.healthpolicyforum.org