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

**Monday, July 6, 2020**

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

MEDICAID

CMS's Proposed Medicaid Best Price Loophole For Value-Based Purchasing
Of Drugs

By Peter B. Bach

Before the administration creates a huge loophole in Medicaid best price
for value-based purchasing agreements for drugs, it should ask if it's
even a good policy idea to encourage them. Probably not, but if so, how
can the administration's proposal do less damage to the Medicaid
program? Read More >>

ACCESS TO CARE

Private Equity And Right To Try: A Dangerous Combination

By Holly Fernandez Lynch, Kelly McBride Folkers, and Arthur L. Caplan

Two years after the federal Right to Try Act was signed into law, it's
barely been used at all. A new for-profit cancer clinic is aiming to
change that. However, this initiative poses serious concerns for
patients and illustrates the flaws of right to try. Read More >>

COVID-19

COVID-19 Effects On Care Volumes: What They Might Mean And How We Might
Respond

By Michael Chernew, A. Mark Fendrick, Kyle Armbrester, and François de
Brantes

How might the decline in care utilization connected to COVID-19 affect
the health of patients, and what might differential utilization rates
and associated outcomes tell us about the value of particular treatments
and ways to make care more efficient? Read More >>

QUALITY OF CARE

Transforming Health Care Measurement By Partnering With Patients And
Caregivers

By Hala Durrah, Karen Frazier, Stephen Hoy, Mary Lavelle, Dilani Logan,
and Ellen Schultz

In a high-performing health care system, measurement drives progress
toward safe, effective, efficient, timely, equitable, and
patient-centered care. It identifies priority areas for improvement,
promotes accountability, and more. However, to make sure that
measurement reflects what patients say they want and need, researchers
must partner with patients and caregivers and value their experiences,
these authors say. They describe foundation-supported work to put
patient-centered measurement into practice in the real world. Read More
>>

IN THE JOURNAL

BOOK REVIEWS

Care Is A Basic Human Right

By Gary Epstein-Lubow

Gary Epstein-Lubow reviews Arthur Kleinman's newest book, The Soul of
Care, "a compelling depiction of family caregiving, with important
implications for people living with dementia and everyone who supports
them." Read More >>

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Politics, Power, And Equity

By Leslie Erdelack

Leslie Erdelack reviews The Political Determinants of Health, by Daniel
Dawes, who "explores the political decisions and drivers underlying the
social determinants of health." Read More >>

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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Medical Cannabis

Medicinal marijuana is becoming an ever more common remedy among
patients and physicians alike. But among health care system
stakeholders, some of the most resistant to these trends have been
health care facilities themselves, the vast majority of which do not
even allow patients to bring their own therapy onto their premises.
Health Affairs Blog authors Shereef M. Elnahal and Jeff Brown think that
should change-and that organizations that lead in accommodating
patients on medical cannabis

stand to enhance both quality of care and market competitiveness.

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