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**The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs**

**Friday, February 21, 2020**

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

MEDICARE

Medicare For All: What History Can Teach Us About Its Chances

By John E. McDonough

If Democrats can advance further toward near-universal coverage without
the life-or-death struggles of passing Medicare for All, they just might
achieve meaningful and historic progress even as they preserve political
capital to make progress on other urgent policy needs. Read More >>

Five Reasons Medicare For All (Or Anything Like It) Won't Pass In 2021

By Billy Wynne

There is a tremendous amount of headway Democrats can make in furthering
the party's goal of achieving quality, affordable coverage for all in
2021 if we can put our ideological preferences on the back burner. Read
More >>

SUBSTANCE ABUSE

Enhancing Rates Of Opioid Overdose Education And Naloxone Distribution
In Emergency Departments

By Kristen Huntley, Emily B. Einstein, Mary Ellen Palowitch, Anita
Thomas, Terri L. Postma, Shari M. Ling, and Wilson M. Compton

Emergency departments offer critical opportunities for addressing the
opioid crisis because they are on the front lines of health care and are
an underutilized point of contact with people at risk of opioid
overdose. Read More >>

FOLLOWING THE ACA

Texas At The Supreme Court: The Latest

By Katie Keith

In a 2-1 decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals partially affirmed
the district court, agreeing that the mandate is now unconstitutional
but remanding the case back to the district court on the issue of
severability. A coalition of Democratic attorneys general and governors,
led by California, and the US House of Representatives appealed the
Fifth Circuit's decision to the Supreme Court. Read More >>

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IN THE JOURNAL

GLOBAL HEALTH POLICY

Copayment Incentive Increased Medication Use And Reduced Spending Among
Indigenous Australians After 2010

By Amal N. Trivedi and Margaret Kelaher

In 2010 the Australian government reduced or eliminated medication
copayments for indigenous people with chronic disease or risk factors
for chronic disease. In this quasi-experimental study Amal Trivedi and
Margaret Kelaher found that the copayment reductions were associated
with a 39 percent relative increase in the use of medications and a 61
percent reduction in out-of-pocket spending. Read More >>

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A CLOSER LOOK-Caregiving

Caregiving for a spouse in the last years of life is associated with
increased depression and negative health outcomes for surviving spouses,
many of whom are themselves in poor health. Katherine Ornstein and
coauthors found that 55 percent of the spouses of community-dwelling
married people with disability were solo caregivers
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