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Foundation Blogs Round-up: Retail Clinics, E-Cigarettes, and More
Here is a sampling of foundation blog posts that recently caught my eye. Health Care Delivery “Retail Clinics Are Expanding Their Role within the Health Care System,” by Tara Oakman, on the Robert Wood...
View ArticlePreparing For The Court’s Decision In King v. Burwell (video)
Yesterday I appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal where I answered questions about the role of subsidies in the federal insurance marketplaces. We talked about how Congress and the states are...
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To Increase Value in Medicare, Expand Coverage To Long-Term Care
Medicare has recently announced policy moves designed to improve the value of its spending. Few people would argue with this goal at an abstract level, but what it means in practical terms is less...
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King v. Burwell And The Importance Of State Politics
The Supreme Court’s decision in King v. Burwell brings an important chapter of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) implementation to a close. The fight about health reform is not over, with Republican...
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King v. Burwell: A Brief Respite For Obamacare
Most health foundations in states with federally facilitated health insurance marketplaces breathed a collective sigh of relief after the King v. Burwell Supreme Court ruling, which retained the...
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Now Is A Great Time For Achieving Health Equity—An Optimist’s Viewpoint
This post is adapted from the author’s presentation at the Colorado Health Foundation’s Colorado Health Symposium on July 30, in Keystone, Colorado. A common refrain among health care and public health...
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An Underutilized Tool For Foundations—Policy Change
In philanthropy, we are driven by the causes that matter to us and bolstered by the opportunity to generate meaningful change. But how do we actually achieve that change? For years, when I was out in...
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What We Discovered At ‘The Frontiers’ About Financing And Leading...
From the Wild West to the “final frontier” of space, the metaphor of the frontier has always served as a touchstone for American optimism. ReThink Health, an initiative of the Rippel Foundation, shares...
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Health Care Price Transparency: A Meeting Of The Minds In Kentucky
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky held its second health care price transparency symposium on October 16. This convening occurred a year after the foundation’s first symposium, in which state and...
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How Funders Can Support Emerging Accountable Care Organizations To Maximize...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs), once compared to mythical creatures, are now a widespread reality, with roughly 750 ACOs serving 23.5 million Medicare, Medicaid, and commercially insured...
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Several Kansas Foundations Encourage Expansion Of Kansas Medicaid
At the Kansas Health Foundation, after thirty years of grant making, it has become increasingly clear to us that changing policies creates the most change for people. It’s important to ensure that all...
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Tracking The Impact Of The Affordable Care Act In Kentucky
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) presents states with an opportunity to tailor the implementation of key health policy approaches intended to increase health insurance coverage and access to timely,...
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Studies Reveal A Critical Need To Educate Texans On The Basics Of Health...
As the United States celebrates the sixth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), there’s no debate that more Texans now have health insurance than before the ACA went into effect. In fact, the...
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Evolving Hospital Community Benefit Could Be The Next Big Development In...
“Hospital community benefit”: Remind me, what Is That again? In our experience, when colleagues in health philanthropy hear the phrase “hospital community benefit,” their eyes begin to glaze over. We...
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People Post: Staff Changes In Health Philanthropy; Honors; Job Openings
Jehan Benton-Clark will join the Colorado Health Foundation later this month as portfolio director for community engagement. She comes to the foundation, located in Denver, from the Kate B. Reynolds...
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Kentucky Medicaid Program At A Crossroads
On June 22, 2016, Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin (R) announced the release of Kentucky HEALTH (Helping to Engage and Achieve Long Term Health), a Medicaid section 1115 demonstration project proposal....
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On The Foundation Freeway: Entering And Exiting Priority Areas With Caution
All funders, no matter their size, have big dreams and limited resources. I have yet to meet grantmakers—even the largest ones—that think they have sufficient money to tackle the myriad challenges that...
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Could Foundations Have Mounted A Better Defense Of The ACA?
It came sometime after the “You lie!” outburst and the false claims of “death panels,” but before two potentially fatal US Supreme Court decisions and sixty-seven consecutive votes to repeal in the US...
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Foundation Blogs Round-Up: Social Determinants Of Health, Kansas Medicaid,...
Data Analytics In Health Care (And Baseball) “Bringing Moneyball to Medicine,” by Andy Bindman of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) on the California Health Care Foundation’s blog,...
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Health Philanthropy’s Role In Uncertain Times, NIH Funding, Oral Health: A...
Here are a few interesting items that recently came across my desk. Funding For NIH “An Open Letter to Congress,” Guy McKhann of the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute at Johns Hopkins University,...
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