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Happy New Year!

To begin what we hope will be a good year for all, we’re taking a look back at 2023.

Check out our full year-in-review lists capturing the most-read journal articles, our Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil's favorite journal articles of the year, our most-read Health Affairs Forefront articles of 2023 and the most popular Health Affairs podcasts of 2023.

Below, we will be highlighting the top three for each article!

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1. National Health Expenditure Projections, 2022–31: Growth To Stabilize Once The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Ends by Sean P. Keehan, Jacqueline A. Fiore, John A. Poisal, Gigi A. Cuckler, Andrea M. Sisko, Sheila D. Smith, Andrew J. Madison, and Kathryn E. Rennie

2. Health Care Impacts Of Resource Navigation For Health-Related Social Needs In The Accountable Health Communities Model by William Parish, Heather Beil, Fang He, Noah D’Arcangelo, Melissa Romaire, Lucia Rojas-Smith, and Susan G. Haber

3. The Exodus Of State And Local Public Health Employees: Separations Started Before And Continued Throughout COVID-19 by Jonathon P. Leider, Brian C. Castrucci, Moriah Robins, Rachel Hare Bork, Michael R. Fraser, Elena Savoia, Rachael Piltch-Loeb, and Howard K. Koh

Effects Of The 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit On Adults’ Mental Health: A Quasi-Experimental Study by Akansha Batra, Kaitlyn Jackson, and Rita Hamad

Differences In Nursing Home Staff COVID-19 Testing Rates And Odds Of Vaccination Across Work Shifts by Elizabeth M. White, Jasmine L. Travers, Natalia Gouskova, Gahee Oh, Maggie Syme, Xiaofei Yang, Ana Montoya, Richard A. Feifer, David C. Grabowski, Vincent Mor, and Sarah D. Berry

Personalized Letters And Emails Increased Marketplace Enrollment Among Households Eligible For Zero-Premium Plans by Andrew Feher, Isaac Menashe, Jennifer Miller, and Emory Wolf

Arthur L. Kellermann, We Must Rebuild America’s Military Health System (March 14)

Purva Rawal, Douglas Jacobs, Elizabeth Fowler, and Meena Seshamani, Building On CMS's Accountable Care Vision To Improve Care For Medicare Beneficiaries (July 31)

Christopher M. Whaley, Sebahattin Demirkan, and Ge Bai, What’s Behind Losses At Large Nonprofit Health Systems? (March 24)

Health Affairs This Week: Kaiser, Geisinger and the Uncertain Future of Value-Based Care

A Health Podyssey: Deepak Palakshappa on Health Care Spending and Food Insecurity

Health Affairs This Week: CMS's 10-Year Value-Based Primary Care Experiment

Health Affairs Branded Post:

It’s Time For The Health Care Industry To Treat Food As Medicine

Trisha Swift et al.

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• January 10: Lunch and Learn: National Health Care Spending In 2022: Growth Similar To Prepandemic Rates
• January 16: Journal Club: “Nursing Home Staffing: Share Of Immigrant Certified Nursing Assistants Grew As US-Born Staff Numbers Fell, 2010–21”

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Balancing Autonomy And Public Safety: A Call For Medical And Regulatory Oversight Of Drivers With Cognitive Decline

Sharona Hoffman and Cassandra Robertson

Impact Of Private Capital And Financialization On Health Equity: A Response To Enekwechi

Jessica L. Andersen

Dispelling The Myths Hindering Medicaid Innovation

David Velasquez and Dan Gebremedhin

A National Benefit For Cell And Gene Therapies: A Proposed Framework

Amanda Katchmar and Alan B. Cohen