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

**Wednesday, April 29, 2020**

TODAY ON THE BLOG
COVID-19

Congress Left Big Gaps In The Paid Sick Days And Paid Leave Provisions
Of The Coronavirus Emergency Legislation

By Steven Findlay

In their understandable rush to respond to the crisis, lawmakers created
access to paid sick days and paid leave which is profoundly
unfair-with arbitrary limits and winners and losers.
Read More >>

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COSTS & SPENDING

What Do High Drug Prices Buy Us?

By Richard Frank, Jerry Avorn, and Aaron Kesselheim

If the government negotiated for prices based on a drug's real
advantage over existing products, it could provide a better incentive
for more useful innovation as well as improve the affordability of
prescription drugs. Read More >>

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PODCAST: NEWSMAKERS

To Reopen The Economy After COVID-19, How Much Testing Is Needed?

In a WTOP-FM interview, Health Affairs Editor-In-Chief Alan Weil
discussed the importance of targeting testing to critical populations
and areas, to pinpoint the spread of COVID-19 and eventually plan for a
safe opening of the economy.

Listen here.

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IN THE JOURNAL

INTEGRATING SOCIAL SERVICES & HEALTH

Innovative Integrated Health And Social Care Programs In Eleven
High-Income Countries

By Onil Bhattacharyya, James Shaw, Samir Sinha, Dara Gordon, Simone
Shahid, Walter P. Wodchis, and Geoffrey Anderson

Recent reports suggest that integrated health and social care programs
target specific high-needs population segments, coordinate health and
social care services to meet their clients' needs, and engage clients
and their caregivers. Onil Bhattacharyya and coauthors identified thirty
health and social care programs in eleven high-income countries that
delivered care in new ways. Read More >>

Innovative Policy Supports For Integrated Health And Social Care
Programs In High-Income Countries

By Walter P. Wodchis, James Shaw, Samir Sinha, Onil Bhattacharyya,
Simone Shahid, and Geoffrey Anderson

Walter P. Wodchis and coauthors describe the innovative policies that
national, regional, and local policy makers have used to support the
development, spread, and scale of thirty integrated health and social
care programs in eleven high-income countries. Read More >>

Read the April 2020 Table of Contents
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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Pediatric Home Care

Pediatric home care providers, payers, and policy makers must
authentically and meaningfully partner with families in the codesign of
family-centered care, policies, and programs.
In
a Health Affairs Blog post, Cara L. Coleman writes, "Families must be
supported, valued, and respected as equal partners in care-because the
pediatric home care system cannot exist without them."

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