"Affordable Health Care for All: What Does Affordable Really Mean?" Community Catalyst: The report develops a new methodology for defining health insurance affordability using several different studies and applies it to Massachusetts, which has enacted a statewide health insurance mandate, as a case study. The report also identifies an income level at which an individual typically can afford health insurance without a subsidy and the income level at which a significant portion of the population can begin contributing to health insurance costs to establish a sliding scale of affordability. In addition, researchers use polling data to check their findings against public opinions about health insurance affordability (Barber/Miller, "Affordable Health Care for All: What Does Affordable Really Mean?" 4/18).

"Changes in Physician Supply and Scope of Practice During a Malpractice Crisis: Evidence From Pennsylvania," Health Affairs: The Health Affairs Web exclusive examines Pennsylvania medical liability costs from 1993 to 2002 and their effect on physicians, as well as the potential to reduce the scope of physicians' practices or eliminate them completely. The authors conclude with possible explanations for the disparate findings of studies that use administrative and survey data to examine the supply of physicians for different specialties (Mello et al., Health Affairs, 4/24).

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