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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
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IN THE JOURNAL
AFFORDABLE CARE
ACT
Did The ACA Lower Americans’ Financial Barriers To Health Care?
By Sherry A. Glied, Sara R. Collins, and Saunders Lin
The Affordable Care Act was designed to provide financial protection to Americans in their use of the health care system. This required addressing two intertwined problems: cost barriers to accessing coverage and care, and barriers to comprehensive risk protection provided by insurance. Sherry Glied and coauthors reviewed the evidence on whether the law was effective in achieving these goals. Read More >>
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HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTS–The Affordable Care Act Turns 10
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
9:00 am – 1:00 pm Eastern
W Hotel Washington – 515 15th Street NW, Washington DC 20004
Join Us – Register Now View Speaker List
The March 2020 issue of Health Affairs, "The Affordable Care Act Turns 10," offers must-read analyses of the ACA. Authors explain the law’s effects on coverage, costs, health status, and more. They also review the political and legal issues
that have shaped implementation and consider what should come next. On March 10, Health Affairs will host a special event to amplify the work. Order the Issue
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TODAY ON THE BLOG
ACCESS TO CARE
Paid Family And Medical Leave Gains Momentum
By Steven Findlay
Paid-leave advocates should consider joining their struggle to the fight for universal health care
coverage, expanded access to care, and lower costs. Read More >>
ORAL HEALTH
Lessons From Oral Health: Using Philanthropy As A Catalyst For Systems Change
By Katie Eyes and Stacy
Warren
Oral health is a critical issue in North Carolina, with more than 2.4 million residents living in areas without enough dentists, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Two foundations are jointly investing $35 million to address major gaps in oral health care in the state. The authors say that partnership between the two foundations and collaboration with others has been one key to creating momentum for substantive change around oral health in the Tar Heel State. Read More >>
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A CLOSER LOOK—Opioids
In the past 15 years, use of prescription opioids, heroin, and fentanyl by adolescents and young adults has skyrocketed. This has been paralleled by increasing rates of opioid use disorder diagnoses and opioid-related overdoses and deaths in this population, the latter of which reached almost 5,000 in 2017. A Health Affairs Blog post from November 2019 says that "despite these staggering statistics, Generation Z is too rarely prioritized in policy discussions surrounding the opioid epidemic."
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