Recently, a New York Supreme Court judge struck down the soda ban proposed by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg last fall. I’m on record in the JAMA Forum as being against the ban in the first place. But I… Read More ›
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JAMA Forum: Missed Opportunities Abound as Congress Wrangles Over Fiscal Challenges
In my “Poised on the Edge of the Fiscal Cliff” blog post of December 18, 2012, I bemoaned the fact that 13 days before the end of the year, Congress had yet to decide what to do about the upcoming… Read More ›
JAMA Forum: The State Role in Health Care Innovation
A couple of weeks ago, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new round of grants from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). If you didn’t pay much attention to the announcement, it’s worth a… Read More ›
JAMA Forum: Remembering US Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and a Legacy of Leadership
By Asa Tapley, MSc, and Andrew B. Bindman, MD Last Monday, former US Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, MD, ScD, died at the age of 96 years. But even though it’s been nearly 25 years since he completed his term… Read More ›
JAMA Forum: State Health Exchanges, a Skeptical Public, and the Role of Health Care Professionals
Imagine the following scenario: it’s October 2013, you’re a health care professional, and Sara Smith, a 45-year-old woman with diabetes, arrives in your clinic for the first time in more than 4 years. You ask her why it’s been so… Read More ›
JAMA Forum: The Forecast Slowdown in Medicare Spending: Is More Coming?
By David Cutler, PhD, and Nikhil Sahni, MBA, MPA/ID The President pushed his budget in last week’s State of the Union address, but the show was stolen by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) 2 weeks ago, when it released its… Read More ›
JAMA Forum: Great Expectations and the Affordable Care Act
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently projected that 7 million people will enroll in new health insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) next year when the exchanges come online. This is out of tens of millions of people… Read More ›
JAMA Forum: Separating the Science and Politics of “Obesity”
By Stacy M. Carter, PhD, MPH, and Helen L. Walls, PhD, MPH Last month, JAMA published a systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and all-cause mortality. The researchers, led by Katherine M. Flegal, PhD,… Read More ›
JAMA Forum: The Anti-Prostitution “Loyalty Oath”
Can the US Congress require AIDS service organizations working abroad to pledge fidelity to the government’s opposition to prostitution and sex trafficking as a condition of receiving funding? The US Supreme Court recently announced that it will address this question… Read More ›
JAMA Forum: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Projected Medicare Spending Growth
By Austin Frakt, PhD In January, Richard Kronick and Rosa Po published a policy brief on projected Medicare growth for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), which advises the US Secretary for Health and Human… Read More ›
