Dear John,

ICYMI, Zachary Baron of Georgetown University's O'Neill Institute joined Health Affairs This Week to discuss what the outcome of the 2024 US Presidential Election could mean for future health care policy.

Today's Featured Articles

Loss Of Public Health Emergency Funds Challenges The Financial Viability Of Nursing Homes, Especially Not-For-Profit Facilities

Christopher S. Brunt et al.

Science And The US Supreme Court

Marcia Boumil and Paul Beninger

More on Nursing Homes

Nursing Homes Increasingly Rely On Staffing Agencies For Direct Care Nursing

John R. Bowblis et al. (February 2024)

Trends In Home Care Versus Nursing Home Workforce Sizes: Are States Converging Or Diverging Over Time?

Esther M. Friedman et al.

A Health Podyssey: Amanda Chen on New CMS Nursing Home Ownership Data (March 2024)

Leemore Dafny Joins Our 200th Episode

Today, A Health Podyssey published it's 200th episode. Health Affairs' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil invites Leemore Dafny of the Harvard Business School back to the program to discuss vertical integration in the health care sector, observations on what impacts it may have on the future state of markets, and what the regulatory response has been so far.

Call for Abstracts: Research and Policy Insights about the Opioid Crisis

Health Affairs is planning a theme issue on research and policy insights about the opioid crisis, to be published in September of 2025.

We invite all interested authors to submit abstracts for consideration for this
issue.

Our submission portal for abstracts opens today.

In order to be considered, abstracts must be submitted no later than 11:59 PM Eastern time (U.S.), December 2, 2024.

Nursing Home Financial Stability and Funding Challenges

Join Health Affairs November 20 for a virtual event examining how the loss of public health emergency funds challenges the financial viability of nursing homes.

This event is for Health Affairs Insiders only.

In the November issue of Health Affairs, John Bowblis and colleagues reviewed the impact that the loss of public health funding has on the financial health of nursing homes, especially not-for-profits, in the long term.

Health Affairs Senior Editor Kathleen Haddad and Bowblis will discuss the paper and its implications during a virtual Journal Club.