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Massachusetts health policy news: Patrick administration introduces payment reform legislation
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick released his new payment reform proposal, an expansion on the health care reform overhaul of 2006, on February 17, 2011. Nancy Turnbull, senior lecturer on health policy and associate dean for educational programs at…
Racial and ethnic inequalities
John McDonough, director of the Center for Public Health Leadership, discusses his recent op-ed in the The Baltimore Sun that said repealing last year's health care reform law would damage the potential to address the longstanding racial and ethnic health inequalities in…
Millions of Americans may churn in and out of health coverage under Affordable Care Act
Millions of Americans could lose insurance for periods of time under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new report in Health Affairs co-authored by Benjamin Sommers, assistant professor of health policy and economics at HSPH. Under the…
Health reform news: accountable care organizations offer promise for cost-savings, greater efficiency
Accountable care organizations (ACOs), legal partnerships between doctors and hospitals that provide financial incentives to providers for more efficient and better care, will be part of Medicare by 2012 and are attracting wider interest among commercial payers and…
Americans remain divided over health reform with an uptick in public opposition as GOP ramped up repeal campaign
As Many Americans Would Like To Keep or Expand Health Reform Law As Would Like To Repeal Or Replace It, And Most Oppose Defunding Implementation Public Concerned About The Deficit But A Majority Opposes Cutting Medicare And Social…
Health reform news: HSPH Prof recommends single-payer health care system for Vermont
Last year, Harvard School of Public Health economist William Hsiao was commissioned by the Vermont state legislature to design three options for reforming the state health care system. Hsiao, who helped design a single-payer system for Taiwan and…
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…