A December Health Reform Implementation Update: A Health Affairs Conversation...
What should we make of the latest enrollment numbers in the health insurance exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act? What sort of problems should we expect when coverage begins through the...
View ArticleACA Coverage Goes Live: A Health Affairs Conversation With Karen Davis, Dan...
What is the status of the coverage roll-out under the Affordable Care Act, and how is enrollment in the ACA’s health insurance marketplaces progressing? Are more states likely to expend Medicaid? What...
View ArticleThe State Of Health Reform: A Health Affairs Conversation With James...
The Obama administration touted a recent increase in the enrollment rate for young adults in the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges – how significant was this trend? What should we make...
View ArticleResponding To ‘The Hidden Curriculum': Don’t Forget About The Patient
Narrative Matters readers might remember Joshua Liao’s moving essay about the dangers of the Hidden Curriculum. Liao, a resident physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, wrote about the consequences...
View ArticleThe ACA After The First Open Enrollment: A Health Affairs Conversation With...
The first open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges recently closed. In the latest edition of our Health Affairs Conversations podcast series, Paul Ginsburg,...
View ArticleHealth Policy Research And Disparities: A Health Affairs Conversation With...
Earlier this year, AcademyHealth held its 2014 National Health Policy Conference; Health Affairs was a media partner for the NHPC. In a new installment of our Health Affairs Conversations Podcast...
View ArticleLearning From Missed Opportunities To Diagnose US Ebola Patient Zero
Over a century ago American physician Richard Cabot wrote about misdiagnoses, recognizing: “A goodly number of ‘classic’ time-honored mistakes in diagnosis are familiar to all experienced physicians...
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New Narrative Matters: Amid Fears And Controversy, A Doctor Chooses A Home Birth
In Health Affairs’ June Narrative Matters essay, a family physician who delivers babies discusses her decision to have a home birth, and the controversy and fear surrounding it. Jessica Taylor...
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Why Are We Years Away From A Zika Vaccine?
In the new and urgent fight against the Zika Virus, most global health officials and policymakers are focused on immediate steps to curb the disease’s transmission. That’s important because the chances...
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What’s Behind The Surging Interest In Raising The Age To Buy Tobacco? (Podcast)
In trying to curb tobacco use, a growing number of state and local policymakers want to raise the minimum age to legally purchase cigarettes. On January 1, 2016, Hawaii became the first state to raise...
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