Health Wonk Review’s list of contributors is expanding edition-to-edition, and the latest hosted by Health Affairs’ Jane Hiebert-Smith continues the trend. There’s solid material from the State of the Union address and the various state reform proprosals, not to mention drug pricing and the new Congress.

David Williams at Health Business Blog is hosting the latest edition of the Cavalcade of Risk.
Check out the entry on physicians who direct some “risky” patients to the ER, and the reasons they do.

Roy Poses MD has done just a bang-up job on today’s edition of Health Wonk Review. It’s just stuffed with great material!

The number of health policy blogs is going thru it’s expansion phase; with new entrants jumping into the fray every nano-second. The best of the (relatively) recent efforts include Health Affairs, Bob Laszewski, and a brand spanking new blog, The Sentinel Effect.
Richard Eskow, one of the smartest people in the managed care business and has been posting at the Huffington Post for quite a while with much success. Richard has been in the business on the payer side for over 20 years, consulting with HMOs, tech companies, politicians, workers comp insurers, and providers. He’s especially good on the data analysis stuff.
He also plays a mean guitar.

Hey, Managed Care Matters was nominated for one of the Best Medical Weblogs of 2006!.
Thanks to whomever entered the blog, and I’ll send out info on voting when it starts (tomorrow, I think).
Also in the running for the “Best Health Policy/Ethics Weblog” are Hank Stern’s InsureBlog, Health Business Blog, Rita Schwab’s MSSPNexus, Kevin, M.D., Roy Poses’ Health Care Renewal, and Effect Measure.
Now that’s SOME competition!

A well-done and tip of the cup, er, cap to Rita Schwab of MSSP Nexus. Rita has done and exemplary job hosting the latest edition of Health Wonk Review, wherein the best of the biweekly blogosphere are brung to you.

Michael Cannon brings his Libertarian perspective to the latest edition of Health Wonk Review at his blog Cato-at-Liberty.
Michaels finds himself agreeing with Ezra Klein, complimenting Matthew Holt, and finding common ground with Lief Wellington Haase.
I can almost hear faint strains of “Kumbaya”…

David Williams is hosting Health Wonk Review in a return engagement. While David is somewhat misty over the old days of HWR, he does an excellent job coping with the growth of the “review”.

The blog run under the auspices and banner of the highly esteemed journal “Health Affairs” is starting to get some traction.
Recent posts examining the implications of the elections on health care, GOP and Democratic views of the elections on health policy, and a well-done piece on the reality of the nursing shortage all bode well for the journal’s blogging future.
Now if they could just figure out how to post every day…

Jason Shafrin of Healthcare Economist fame is hosting this edition of HWR. Jason’s measured, analytical style makes for intriguing perspective on this week’s contributions.