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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 More >>
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 >>
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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 InstitutionsMicrofinance 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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