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

**Friday, August 16, 2019**

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

MEDICARE

Evaluating Medicare Programs Against Saving Taxpayer Dollars

By Hayden Rooke-Ley, Travis Broome, Farzad Mostashari, and Sean
Cavanaugh

In this review, we show that the Medicare Advantage program is likely
costing Medicare relative to traditional Medicare-and it is certainly
falling well short of the 5 percent savings target articulated in the
earliest versions of the program (Medicare+Choice). Read More >>

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IN THE JOURNAL

MILITARY HEALTH SYSTEM

Military Telehealth: A Model For Delivering Expertise To The Point Of
Need In Austere And Operational Environments

By Jeremy C. Pamplin, Konrad L. Davis, Jennifer Mbuthia, Steven Cain,
Sean J. Hipp, Daniel J. Yourk, Christopher J. Colombo, and Ron
Poropatich

Jeremy Pamplin and colleagues describe military telehealth as it relates
to care in austere and operational environments, and suggest
implications for policy, particularly with respect to the current
emphasis on telehealth solutions that might not be feasible in those
settings. Read More >>

Read the August 2019 Table of Contents
on Military Health
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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Wildfires

A recent University of California-Berkeley study discovered new
long-term health risks for firefighters combating modern wildfires. In
his August 2018 Health Affairs Blog post, Lloyd Dean offers approaches
for communities to mitigate the effects of these wildfires
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