The New Health Dialogue

A Blog from New America's Health Policy Program

COVERAGE: Just the Facts Ma'am

  • By
  • Joanne Kenen
May 1, 2008

Fifty-five percent of insured people don’t understand the “critical details” of their health policies, a new survey tells us. We ask ourselves: who are the 45 percent who do understand them?

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COVERAGE: Bipartisan Senate Plan to Cover All Americans Would Pay for Itself

  • By
  • Elizabeth Carpenter
May 1, 2008

No, your eyes aren't deceiving you. We CAN guarantee all Americans quality health coverage and improve our delivery system without breaking the bank, according a report released today by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

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QUALITY: At Least He's Not Smoking

  • By
  • Paul Testa
April 30, 2008

What else can we say about The Health Care Blog's post today: "After A Short Stay In the US, Michelangelo's David Returns To Florence," except that we hope David is covered by more than the Tribuna at the Gallery of the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence—chronic disease is expensive.

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HEALTH IT: Crime and Punishment (Please)

  • By
  • Joanne Kenen
April 30, 2008

The Wall Street Journal had a great piece and blog item yesterday about Health IT and privacy breaches — we would have blogged about it then had we not, coincidentally, been out much of the day with some other think-tankers and foundation folks educating ourselves about that very topic.

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COVERAGE: AMA: 47 Million Uninsured Isn't Just a Statistic, It's a Tragedy

April 29, 2008

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COST: What's Love Got to Do With It?

  • By
  • Joanne Kenen
April 29, 2008

Forget pheromones. A new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that seven percent of adults reported that in the past year they or someone in their household decided to get married in order to get health insurance from a spouse. (We don't even want to think about what their bridal gift registry looks like.)

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COST: Family Premiums Rose 10 Times Faster Than Income

  • By
  • Joanne Kenen
April 29, 2008

Speaking of Cover the Uninsured Week—now a word from its sponsors...

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QUALITY: Sometimes, Technology IS Better

  • By
  • Tom Emswiler
April 28, 2008

You know you're a health wonk when you get excited at the sight of the word "laparoscopic" in your inbox on a Friday evening. But after four years of thinking about health policy all the time, here I am.

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IN THE STATES: Californians are Still Dreaming

  • By
  • Joanne Kenen
April 28, 2008

Apparently, a lot of Californians shared our disappointment when the state's health reform efforts fell apart earlier this year. A new Field Health Policy Survey shows that Californians are none too confident about the future of health care in their state after lawmakers killed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to cover all Californians in January.

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POLITICS: Mandate Confusion

  • By
  • Joanne Kenen
April 28, 2008

The very first day we started this blog, in March, we wrote about the mandate war between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and how it was obscuring their many areas of agreement on health care.

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