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

**Thursday, March 26, 2020**

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IN THE JOURNAL

AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

How The ACA Reframed The Prescription Drug Market And Set The Stage For
Current Reform Efforts

By Rena Conti, Stacie B. Dusetzina, and Rachel Sachs

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) contained a range of provisions that
altered prescription drug access and affordability for patients, payers,
and providers. Rena Conti and coauthors consider how things have changed
in the decade after the ACA's passage and how some missed
opportunities in the ACA's passage figure prominently in the current
drug pricing debate. Read More >>

Read the March 2020 Table of Contents
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TODAY ON THE BLOG

COVID-19

**** Senate Passes COVID-19 Package #3: The Coverage Provisions

By Katie Keith

Late last night, the US Senate-by a vote of 96 to 0-passed the
Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), a $2.2
trillion package to address the coronavirus crisis. Read More >>

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Correctional Facilities In The Shadow Of COVID-19: Unique Challenges And
Proposed Solutions

By Brie Williams, Cyrus Ahalt, David Cloud, Dallas Augustine, Leah
Rorvig, and David Sears

Failure to mount an adequate response to potential COVID-19 outbreaks
throughout the nation's jails and prisons has the potential to
devastate the health and well-being of incarcerated Americans, the
nation's correctional workforce, and people living in the thousands of
communities in which our jails and prisons are located.  Read More >>

CMS Could Do More In Light Of The Coronavirus Crisis

By Katie Keith

This post identifies a non-exhaustive list of actions that the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) could take now under the
agency's existing legal authority. Given that Congress has taken only
limited steps to address coverage-related issues in its coronavirus
packages so far, CMS should do much more to leverage its existing
authority to protect consumers. Read More >>

To Help Develop The Safest, Most Effective Coronavirus Tests,
Treatments, And Vaccines, Ensure Public Access To Clinical Research Data

By Christopher J. Morten, Amy Kapczynski, Harlan M. Krumholz, and Joseph
S. Ross

To address the COVID-19 pandemic that is bearing down on the United
States, the public urgently needs new diagnostics, treatments, and
vaccines. However, to be confident that any new technologies are safe
and effective, we need public access to clinical research data and other
information on these technologies. Read More >>

LEGAL AND REGULATORY ISSUES

Beyond Bans: How Cannabis Policy Reform Can Reduce Vaping-Related
Illnesses

By Amanda Mauri and Rebecca Haffajee

If the costs associated with new regulatory requirements are so great
that the legal industry cannot compete with the illegal market, policy
makers could risk encouraging the survival of the illicit
industry-especially if states do not increase enforcement against the
illegal market. Read More >>

A CLOSER LOOK-Antibiotic-Resistant Infections

Antibiotic-resistant infections are a growing medical and public health
policy problem in the US. Using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel
Survey, the authors of a Health Affairs article estimated the
incremental health care costs of treating a resistant infection as well
as the total national costs of treating such infections
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