The nation's eyes may have been more focused on Washington on Tuesday night, but issues on ballots across the country were shaping health policy in the states. Read >

If the election had gone the other way, health reporters across the country would have spent the rest of the week -- and many to come -- reporting on what happens to national health care policy now, with a likely Mitt Romney-led push to repeal at least a large part of the Affordable Care Act. Read >

Something really important happened in Massachusetts today — something that has nothing to do with the final throes of the Brown-Warren Senate race. Read >

A couple of weeks ago, when The Agenda discussed Jon Stewart’s musings on creating a safety net for entrepreneurial risk-taking, we touched briefly on how health insurance reform might spur people to go out on a limb and open a new business. “What about the risk of, you’re afraid to leave your job and be an entrepreneur because that’s where your health insurance is?” Mr. Stewart asked his “Daily Show” guest, Austan Goolsbee, the former Obama administration economist. Read >

Stuart Altman, professor of national health policy at Brandeis University, will chair the new state board charged with setting health care spending goals and tracking providers’ progress toward reducing costs. Read >