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Harold Pollack offers an acute analysis of the effect of deinstitutionalization in his latest Washington Post piece. Many commentators have pronounced the policy a blanket success or a complete failure, but as Harold points out, it’s more complex than that: On the whole, deinstitutionalization improved the lives of millions of Americans living with intellectual and [...]
Archive for the ‘Health Care’ Category
June 13th, 2013
May 28th, 2013
The Affordable Care Act will allow addicted people far more and better treatment options than they have today
May 19th, 2013
Two health policy experts discuss how the Affordable Care Act and other policy changes will affect the future of mental health care
May 9th, 2013
A famous portrait that also serves as a memorial to women dying in childbirth.
May 3rd, 2013
Category: Affordable Care Act, Health Care
On December 16, 2010 I wrote a post that began: While the rhetoric around health reform has been incendiary from day one, in policy terms, a compromise between Democrats and Republicans using the outline of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has always been available. The two primary problems with the health care system are costs [...]
April 26th, 2013
Category: Health Care
About 18 months ago I shared the news that my family was moving to another house so that my mother in law could move in with us. This move took place about 16 months ago, my mother-in-law’s house sold about a year ago and she moved into our new house last Summer. Her physical and [...]
February 9th, 2013
Category: Health Care
I have been meaning to write about the important court order overturning Medicare’s longstanding ‘improve or you’re out’ (of Medicare financed SNF and/or home health) policy for rehabilitation services. Basically, beneficiaries who had plateaued and could at best maintain function could not receive rehab services under these parts of the Medicare benefit package. Medicare has [...]
February 7th, 2013
Category: 501(c)(3), Affordable Care Act, charity, Health Care, Illinois, Innovation, NonProfits, public health, Taxation
I have no idea what the nonprofit community would do without Rick Cohen of the Nonprofit Quarterly: if there’s an issue affecting nonprofits he’ll have a fresh and useful perspective on it, and this article about the Community Health Needs Assessments required by the Affordable Care Act is no exception. What struck me most was [...]
February 2nd, 2013
Category: Health Care, Religion and Politics
Yes, contraception costs insurers money. Not providing it costs them more.
January 18th, 2013
Category: Health Care
NPR has a story on the legal use of genetic information to discriminate (underwrite, set premiums) in the private Long Term Care (LTC) insurance market. I am the first author of the paper that Bob Green (the P.I. of the underlying study) is discussing in the NPR piece and I have blogged about its findings [...]