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

**Friday, May 29, 2020**

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TODAY ON THE BLOG
COVID-19

Inequities Amplified By COVID-19: Opportunities For Medicaid To Address
Health Disparities

By Shilpa Patel and Tricia McGinnis

COVID-19 has laid bare and will likely exacerbate the glaring inequity
faced by communities of color due to a "constellation" of factors.
By leveraging the clarity and urgency that the pandemic has brought to
these issues, Medicaid agencies can create substantial and sustainable
impact in advancing health equity in both the near- and long-term. Read
M
ore
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Structural Discrimination In COVID-19 Workplace Protections

By Ruqaiijah Yearby and Seema Mohapatra

To achieve true health justice for all, including essential workers,
interventions to address the root causes of inequity-including all
community conditions among them, such as environmental and educational
factors-are necessary. Read More >>

Leveraging Payment Reforms For COVID-19 And Beyond: Recommendations For
Medicare ACOs And CMS's Interim Final Rule

By Hannah L. Crook, Robert S. Saunders, William K. Bleser, Travis
Broome, David Muhlestein, and Mark B. McClellan

The health care delivery organizations that have best been able to work
through the pandemic have been those participating in more advanced
alternative payment models. Recognizing the challenges clinicians and
delivery systems are facing, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services on April 30 announced multiple regulatory changes to payment
models. This post analyzes the proposed rule and recommends ways to
improve it. Read More >>

What Have Foundations Been Doing In The Fight Against COVID-19? Part III

By Lee-Lee Prina

During this difficult time, foundations around the country have come
forward to help-with funding for a variety of purposes, including
useful surveys and publications. In this small sampling, read about the
varied ways foundations are aiding people around the world, the US,
their state, or their region. This is Part III of a GrantWatch series.
Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

GLOBAL HEALTH POLICY

The Case Against Labor-Tax-Financed Social Health Insurance For Low- And
Low-Middle-Income Countries

By Abdo S. Yazbeck, William D. Savedoff, William C. Hsiao, Joe Kutzin,
Agnès Soucat, Ajay Tandon, Adam Wagstaff, and Winnie Chi-Man Yip

An increasing interest in initiating and expanding social health
insurance through labor taxes in low- and low-middle-income countries
goes against available empirical evidence. This article builds on
existing recommendations by leading health financing experts and
summarizes recent research that makes the case against labor-tax
financing of health care in low- and low-middle-income countries. Read
More >>

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HEALTH AFFAIRS PODCAST

Changing Availability And Messaging About COVID-19 Testing

Alan Weil

Tests for COVID-19 are now more widely available. In a WTOP-FM
interview, Health Affairs Editor-In-Chief Alan Weil explains that public
health officials need data from a larger pool of residents-those who
are well as well as those suspecting they might be ill-to make
appropriate and safe reopening plans.

Listen here
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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Microfinance Institutions
Microfinance institutions (MFIs), which offer financial services to poor
people in low-income countries, are another avenue through which people
have sought to fund health care in these communities. In her People &
Places article, Margaret K. Saunders discusses how data scientists and
MFIs have brought vital health products to Haiti's rural communities
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