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October 28, 2009 | Issue Brief
Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) tests innovative strategies for improving health care at the community level. These snapshots of success highlight one activity from each of the original 14 AF4Q communities and outline the steps involved, lessons learned and results of the activity.
January 1, 2010 | Toolkit
The process for engaging consumer representatives in Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) consists of four stages. This resource presents a model work plan for engaging consumer representatives through these four stages.
January 1, 2010 | Toolkit
Defines the various roles consumer stakeholders can play in Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Alliances to ensure genuine consumer representatives.
June 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
There is little question that the ACA will improve the nongroup and small group insurance markets for everyone in them, including the high-risk population. Yet insurance market reforms, guided by requirements for EHBs, AVs, and other tools provided by the ACA, are and will remain a work in progress.
May 15, 2013 | Story/Video
The What's Next Health series features leading thinkers and visionaries. danah boyd—social scientist and high priestess of Internet friendship—challenge our assumptions and discusses what this means for health.
June 1, 2004 | Issue Brief
Research Report Figure 7: Continuum of state individual insurance reform laws Faced with rapidly escalating premiums, fewer offers of insurance and, in some cases, a collapsing individual market, states adopted reforms designed to make coverage more ...
May 12, 2010 | Commentary
Economist Victor Fuchs, Ph.D., outlines what distinguishes health care from other goods and services and why we should be concerned about rising health care expenditures.
May 12, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines geographic variation in diagnostic practices by studying Medicare recipients who move to regions with higher or lower diagnostic intensity than the original region.
March 5, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Imagine this: you’ve had an accident and totaled your relatively inexpensive, extremely reliable car. The insurance company offers to replace it with a luxury car, at no extra cost. You know the luxury car may not last as long or work as well, but i ...
December 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
While demand for cost and resource use information among payers, providers and consumers appears to be increasing, its value may not be fully realized by some—or all—of these stakeholder groups in each community.