Federal Support For Working-Age People With Disabilities: We Can Do Better
The federal government is spending a lot to support working-age people with disabilities. Federal outlays in fiscal year 2008 for this population totaled $357 billion – representing 12 percent of all...
View ArticleMedicare Spending Issues Are A Focus Of New Health Affairs Issue
To calculate physicians’ fees under Medicare—which in turn influence private payers’ decisions on how they will pay doctors—the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) relies on the...
View ArticleHealth Affairs Briefing: The Care Span For The Elderly And Disabled
On Tuesday, June 5, Health Affairs will hold a briefing to discuss its June 2012 issue, “Focus On The Care Span For The Elderly And Disabled.” The volume explores a wide range of topics — from...
View ArticleNew Health Affairs Focuses On Americans Covered By Both Medicare And Medicaid
Research and analysis in the newly released June 2012 issue of Health Affairs, supported by a grant from The SCAN Foundation, emphasizes the need to develop new ways of paying for and providing care...
View ArticleHealth Policy Brief: Coordination Of Care For Dual Eligibles
A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines efforts to better manage and coordinate care of more than nine million Americans covered by both Medicare...
View ArticleA Lost Opportunity For Persons With Disabilities? The Final Essential Health...
Among its myriad elements, the Affordable Care Act contains a breakthrough provision that, if implemented, could dramatically alter the way that health insurance coverage works for persons with...
View ArticleAnalysis Of Utilization Rate Declines Leads HA Blog March Top Ten
Mark Grube, Kenneth Kaufman and Robert York’s analysis of the decline in hospital utilization rates leads the Health Affairs Blog most-read list for March. Also on the top-ten list are articles on: the...
View ArticleAgainst All Odds: What One Family’s Experience Tells Us About Medicaid’s...
Medicaid is nearly 50 years old. Is it a relic of a different era that should be repealed and replaced, or does its importance endure? Ann Yurcek’s moving “Narrative Matters” essay in the September...
View ArticleImplementing Health Reform: December Data On Medicaid And CHIP Applications...
On January 22, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the December (2013) Monthly Applications and Eligibility Determinations Report for the Medicaid and CHIP programs. The top...
View ArticleThoughts On The VA Scandal And The Future
For eight years, until May 2013, I directed the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical research program from its Central Office and became familiar with the operations of the Veterans Health...
View ArticleTurning Family Caregivers Into A Political Force
Suzanne Mintz’s memorable Narrative Matters essay in the September issue of Health Affairs calls for attention to and support for family caregivers, and puts many important policy and practice...
View ArticleChallenges For People With Disabilities Within The Health Care Safety Net
Editor’s note: This post is part of a series of several posts stemming from presentations given at “The Law of Medicare and Medicaid at Fifty,” a conference held at Yale Law School on November 6 and 7...
View ArticleResilience, Speaking Up, Reframing: Reflections On Recovery
In October 2014—nearly three years after an auto-pedestrian accident that left me unable to walk—I embarked on a six-day bicycle trip through the Sicilian countryside. An account of the earlier...
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