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Health reform news: For the most expensive patients, better preventative care can drastically reduce costs
HSPH’s Atul Gawande, a physician and regular contributor to The New Yorker, wrote a piece in the January 24, 2011 issue of the magazine about how health care costs can be lowered by providing more hands-on preventative care…
Improving Americans' health literacy
January 2011 -- Why do hospitals have signs for the "nephrology department" when patients with kidney disease who need that department's services are unlikely to know what the word nephrology means? Rima Rudd, senior lecturer on society, human…
Gawande talks health reform with NPR, Colbert Report
Atul Gawande, associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at HSPH, spoke with Tom Ashbrook of NPR’s On Point about health care and health reform on January 4, 2011. Republicans in the House of Representatives…
Reforming Vermont's health care system won't be cheap, says HSPH prof
HSPH Prof. William Hsiao, who is serving as a consultant on health system reform for the Vermont State Legislature, recently provided a status report on his findings. He told an oversight committee that the system is broken and…
Health policy news: Can Medicaid successfully enroll the uninsured?
The broad expansion of Medicaid to cover all adults whose family income is below 133% of the federal poverty line is one of two strategies that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act calls for to expand health…
Health policy: Experts debate future of U.S. health care reform law
The mid-term elections may be over, but the battle over health care reform is just beginning, according to the panel of health policy experts who spoke on Nov. 5 at an event, The Impact of the 2010 Elections…
Poll analysis shows prospective voters for Democratic Congressional Candidates and prospective voters for Republicans hold starkly different views on what the next congress should do about new health care law
Results Suggest Outcome of 2010 Congressional Elections Will Be Significant for Future Direction of Health Care Legislation For immediate release: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 Boston, MA – A comprehensive review of national opinion polls, including newly released data,…
Health care law: New regulations kick in
Meredith Rosenthal, associate professor of health economics and policy at HSPH, was interviewed Sept. 24, 2010, by Fox25 Morning News in Boston about what changes will result from the first wave of the new federal health care regulations…
Epstein named to new GAO Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Board of Governors
HSPH's Arnold Epstein, chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management and John H. Foster professor of health policy and management, is one of 19 members appointed to the Board of Governors for the Government Accountability Office's…
Medical liability costs in U.S. pegged at 2.4 percent of annual health care spending
$55.6 Billion Price Tag Large, But Not a Key Driver of Total Health Care Spending For immediate release: September 7, 2010 Boston, MA – How much do medical liability costs—including the costs of malpractice insurance, claims and legal…
