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A Weekly Health Policy Round Up From Health Affairs            

**March 22, 2020**

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THIS WEEK ON THE BLOG

COVID-19

Coronavirus Responders Deserve Better

By Brian C. Castrucci and Monica Valdes Lupi (3/19/20)

Maybe the disruption caused by COVID-19 will finally be enough to help
us recognize that continued cuts to public health infrastructure
jeopardize not only our health but also our economy and our very way of
life. Read More >>

Health Justice Strategies To Combat COVID-19: Protecting Vulnerable
Communities During A Pandemic

By Emily A. Benfer and Lindsay F. Wiley (3/19/20)

Ultimately, the COVID-19 pandemic underscores the importance of ensuring
that all members of society have the ability to benefit from and comply
with public health measures. Unless and until federal, state, and local
governments dedicate the resources necessary to comprehensively address
the root causes of poor health and poverty, health justice will remain
unattainable, harming every member of our society. Read More >>

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act Is Necessary But Not
Sufficient-Here's What Congress Should Do Next

By Erica Turret, Abbe R. Gluck, Adam Beckman, Suhas Gondi, Timothy
Stoltzfus Jost, Sara Rosenbaum, Ruth J. Katz, Kavita Patel, Brendan G.
Carr, Christen Linke Young, Elizabeth Fowler, Megan L. Ranney, and
Howard P. Forman (3/18/20)

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act makes important progress,
and the president should sign it into law immediately. At the same time,
there is urgent need for further government action. Critical populations
not included in this bill-including the thousands of students now home
from campus and individuals in short-term health plans-need to be
addressed. Read More >>

How To Stand Behind Frontline Health Care Workers Fighting Coronavirus

By Adam L. Beckman, Suhas Gondi, and Howard P. Forman (3/18/20)

Our frontline health care workforce is among our most precious assets in
this fight. We cannot protect the public without protecting them. Read
More >>

American Hospital Capacity And Projected Need For COVID-19 Patient Care

By Thomas C. Tsai, Benjamin H. Jacobson, and Ashish K. Jha (3/17/20)

We are at an inflection point and clearly do not have the capacity to
care for our population of COVID-19 patients if the infections occur
quickly and there is a spike in acutely ill patients. However, spreading
the disease out, and providing new strategies to expand the number of
beds and the workforce, can help ensure that we get through this
difficult period.
Read More >>

Opportunities To Expand Telehealth Use Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic

By Jared Augenstein (3/16/20)

Telehealth offers unique capacity for remote screening, triage, and
treatment, and it could be a powerful tool for reducing transmission of
coronavirus to and among health care workers and patients. Read More >>

Unpacking The Coverage Provisions In The House Coronavirus Bill

By Katie Keith (3/16/20)

On March 14, 2020, the US House of Representatives passed the Families
First Coronavirus Response Act, a relief package with bipartisan
support, by a vote of 363 to 40. The multi-billion dollar legislation,
which was negotiated by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Trump
administration, is expected to be taken up by the US Senate soon. This
legislation builds on a separate coronavirus spending package from early
March that authorized $8.3 billion in emergency funds to address the
crisis.Read More >>

CONSIDERING HEALTH SPENDING

Getting Value Right: The Case For Indirect Benefits

By Mike Ciarametaro, Lisabeth Buelt, and Robert W. Dubois (3/19/20)

As payers, purchasers, and policy makers assess the value of new
treatments-and subsequently determine the level of access patients
will have to them-it's important that they take a comprehensive
approach to measuring value. Read More >>

Want To Make The Nation More Prepared To Fight Contagious Diseases?
Expand Paid Sick Leave

By Brian C. Castrucci and John Auerbach (3/17/20)

National paid sick leave should be a critical component of our
country's strategy to fight contagious diseases. Read More >>

HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

CMS Finalizes New Interoperability Rule For QHPs, Other Insurers

By Katie Keith (3/20/20)

This post is limited to the final rule issued by the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services, and focuses on the impact on payers,
including insurers that offer qualified health plans under the
Affordable Care Act. Read More >>

ACCESS TO CARE

It's Time To Take Patient Experience Measurement And Reporting To A
New Level: Next Steps For Modernizing And Democratizing National Patient
Surveys

By Rick Evans, Shari Berman, Esther Burlingame, and Stephanie Fishkin
(3/16/20)

We highlight the major improvements needed to modernize national patient
experience surveys, to improve the content, administration, and
analysis, and to democratize them, by making the data more accessible
and understandable to all health care stakeholders.
Read More >>

MEDICARE

Competitive Physician Prices In Fee-For-Service Medicare

By Bryan Dowd, Roger Feldman, and Robert Coulam (3/18/20)

Competitive pricing would enable traditional Medicare to operate more
efficiently, and it could encourage commercial insurers to abandon
inefficient benefit designs.Read More >>

HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION

Knowing Better, Doing Better: A New Strategy For Health Professionals'
Education

By Holly J. Humphrey (3/18/20)

The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, a national funder focused on education
of health professionals, has unveiled its new strategic plan. Its
president provides some insights here. Read More >>

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IN THE JOURNAL

AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

The Changing Landscape Of Primary Care: Effects Of The ACA And Other
Efforts Over The Past Decade

By Deborah Peikes, Erin Fries Taylor, Ann S. O'Malley, and Eugene C.
Rich

Deborah Peikes and coauthors describe myriad Affordable Care Act
initiatives designed to support primary care and the lessons learned
from those efforts. Read More >>

The Ten Years' War: Politics, Partisanship, And The ACA

By Jonathan Oberlander

Calling the politics of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) "more tenuous
than triumphal," Jonathan Oberlander dubs the political and partisan
battles in the years since the ACA's enactment the "Ten Years'
War." Read More >>

Federalism And The ACA: Lessons For The 2020 Health Policy Debate

By Michael S. Sparer

Michael Sparer explains the complex federalism that characterizes both
the Medicaid expansion and the Affordable Care Act's Marketplaces.
Read More >>

The ACA's Individual Mandate In Retrospect: What Did It Do, And Where
Do We Go From Here?

By Matthew Fiedler

Matthew Fiedler reviews research on the individual mandate and concludes
that it had a meaningful but modest effect on insurance coverage. Read
More >>

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NARRATIVE MATTERS

The Power Of Access To Affordable Care

By Rachel J. Stern

Primary care physician Rachel Stern writes about how the Affordable Care
Act affected her care as a medical student, and now affects her
patients. Read More >>

Listen to the author tell her story on the podcast.

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