About Health Policy Briefs
Health Policy Briefs provide clear, accessible overviews of timely and important health policy topics for policymakers, journalists, and others concerned about improving health care in the United States. They are produced by Health Affairs through a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The briefs explore competing arguments made on various sides of a policy proposal and point out wherever possible the relevant research behind each perspective. They are reviewed by distinguished Health Affairs authors and other outside experts.
Edited by Ted Agres
Senior Editor, Health Affairs
Contact: hpbrief@healthaffairs.org
Susan Dentzer
Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs
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Current Issue
- From the Editor-in-Chief
- Entry Point: Deepening Drug Shortages
- Small Business Health Options Program
- Challenge of Meeting Businesses' Needs
- Features Could Attract Small Business
- Design Choices and Their Effects
- Will Large Employers Play?
- Adjusting for Risk Selection
- Regulating Stop-Loss Coverage
- Self-Insurance and Grandfathered Plans
- Colorado: Moving Forward on Exchanges
- Interview: A Payer Spurs Delivery Reform
- Transforming the Mental Health System
- Physicians Not Always Open with Patients
- Regulating Food Advertising to Children
- Downsizing Fast-Food Portions
- The Care Span: Medicare Savings Programs
- GrantWatch: Helping States with Exchanges
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- New Transparency Rules For Health Plans: A Huge Win For Consumers 10 Feb 2012
- Implementing Health Reform: The Summary Of Benefits And Coverage 09 Feb 2012
- Small Business Health Insurance Exchanges: Potential And Pitfalls 09 Feb 2012
- New Health Affairs: Some Physicians Not Always Honest With Patients 08 Feb 2012
- The ACA Supreme Court Litigation: The States’ Medicaid And Minimum Coverage Briefs 07 Feb 2012
- Philanthropy People Post: Foundation Folks on the Move 10 Feb 2012
- New In the Journal: How Foundations Are Helping States Implement Health Insurance Exchanges 09 Feb 2012
- Round-up of Foundation Blog Posts: Neglected Diseases, Health Reform, Wellness, and More 03 Feb 2012
- Why a California Foundation Filed an Amicus Brief with the U.S. Supreme Court 01 Feb 2012
- Foundation News: Funding Priority Changes; Health Policy Jobs Open; Gates Foundation Discussion Held 27 Jan 2012
- Hunter Groninger - "A Gravely Ill Patient Faces The Grim Results Of Outliving Her Eligibility For Hospice Benefits" Narrative Matters February 08, 2012
- Tax on sugary drinks? - WTOP Interview February 01, 2012
- Abraham Verghese - "A Touch Of Sense" Narrative Matters January 18, 2012
- Confronting the Growing Diabetes Crisis Event January 10, 2012
- Growth In US Health Spending 2010 Event January 09, 2012
- Confronting the Growing Diabetes Crisis January 10, 2012
- Growth In US Health Spending 2010 January 09, 2012
- Linking Community Development and Health Issue Briefing November 08, 2011
- US Physician Practices Versus Canadians: Spending Nearly Four Times As Much Money Interacting With Payers
- Can Electronic Medical Record Systems Transform Health Care? Potential Health Benefits, Savings, And Costs
- National Health Spending Projections Through 2020: Economic Recovery And Reform Drive Faster Spending Growth
- The Triple Aim: Care, Health, And Cost
- Health Spending In OECD Countries: Obtaining Value Per Dollar
- US Physician Practices Versus Canadians: Spending Nearly Four Times As Much Money Interacting With Payers
- National Health Spending Projections Through 2020: Economic Recovery And Reform Drive Faster Spending Growth
- Hospice And The ‘End Game’
- The Looming Expansion And Transformation Of Public Substance Abuse Treatment Under The Affordable Care Act
- Can Electronic Medical Record Systems Transform Health Care? Potential Health Benefits, Savings, And Costs
- Proportion Of Antidepressants Prescribed Without A Psychiatric Diagnosis Is Growing
- US Physician Practices Versus Canadians: Spending Nearly Four Times As Much Money Interacting With Payers
- National Health Spending Projections Through 2020: Economic Recovery And Reform Drive Faster Spending Growth
- National Health Spending Projections Through 2020: Economic Recovery And Reform Drive Faster Spending Growth
- The Looming Expansion And Transformation Of Public Substance Abuse Treatment Under The Affordable Care Act