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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Thursday, June 18, 2020
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Health Affairs is closed tomorrow in honor of Juneteenth.
The next issue of this newsletter will be published on June 22.
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TODAY ON THE BLOG
COSTS & SPENDING
A Scalpel Instead Of A Sledgehammer: The Potential Of Value-Based Deductible Exemptions In High-Deductible Health Plans
By Douglas Barthold and Anirban Basu
Value-based high-deductible health plans would ensure access to high-value services by exempting their costs from deductibles, while also providing consumers with transparency on the full costs of low-value services and disincentivizing their use. Read More >>
COVID-19
In The COVID-19 Era, And Beyond, Symptom Monitoring Should Be A Universal Health Care Function
By Robert S. Rudin, Mark W. Friedberg, and Daniel A. Solomon
As countries, states, and cities reopen, millions of people are projected to contract COVID-19, threatening to overwhelm inpatient and aftercare capacity. Central to a successful response by national health care systems, and to preparing for inevitable future disease outbreaks, is symptom assessment. Read More >>
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A CLOSER LOOK—Personal Assistance Services
Millions of older Americans and their families
use paid personal assistance services (PAS) as an alternative to nursing homes. Lisa Iezzoni and coauthors note in their June 2019 analysis in Health Affairs that finding solutions to the growing gap between demand for the services and the capacity of the PAS workforce requires policies that cut across societal sectors and align incentives for consumers, workers, and other key stakeholders.
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