COVID-19 and Mental Health: How Can Medicare Coverage Help?
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased psychological distress among all U.S. adults, including Medicare beneficiaries. Can Medicare’s mental health coverage meet the need? In a new brief, Beth McGinty of Johns Hopkins University looks at the mental health needs of the Medicare population, current gaps in mental health coverage, and opportunities to improve policy.
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Why Telemedicine Isn’t Enough
While telemedicine has its benefits, the technology cannot replace the trust built between patients and clinicians through face-to-face relationships, says Commonwealth Fund President David Blumenthal, M.D. In his essay for Harvard Business Review, he writes that telemedicine should be “one more tool that builds upon, and promotes, the human relationships and caring clinical eyes, ears, and hands that have always sustained us when we are sick.”
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Overturning the ACA Will Make COVID-19 Much Worse
What would the COVID-19 pandemic look like if the Supreme Court strikes down the Affordable Care Act as the Trump administration wants? In an op-ed for USA Today, Commonwealth Fund President David Blumenthal, M.D., paints a devastating picture: millions losing their health coverage and life-saving protections, hospitals suffering heavy financial losses, and widespread layoffs, among other repercussions.
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Is There an App for That?
Can contact-tracing apps on smartphones help keep the coronavirus from spreading? What if some people don’t want to wear masks or self-quarantine? These and other questions are answered with wit and bad sports analogies in Corona Question Corner. Submit your questions to [email protected].
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A Vision for Better, More Equitable Maternity Care
The United States faces troubling racial disparities in maternal deaths and generally poor maternal health outcomes. To help us get to a better maternity care system, the Health Care Transformation Task Force and the Commonwealth Fund have introduced the new Maternal Health Hub, a library of best practices for providers, payers, patient organizations, and other stakeholders.
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Jost on the Supreme Court’s Contraceptive Coverage Decision
A Supreme Court decision excusing organizations with religious or moral objections from covering their employees’ birth control immediately deprives tens of thousands of women — and potentially millions more — of their access to low-cost contraceptives. On To the Point, health law expert Timothy Jost provides analysis of a case that represents the high court’s latest foray into the most litigated provision of the Affordable Care Act.
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Join a Webinar on Transforming Primary Care for Women
Women in the U.S. have worse outcomes than women in other high-income countries, and staggering disparities persist across socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, and educational divides. The Commonwealth Fund and Manatt Health invite you to join a webinar on July 16 for a discussion of key findings from an upcoming two-part report series discussing ways to transform primary health care for women.
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Michael V. Drake, M.D., Named University of California President
Michael V. Drake, M.D., a national champion for access and equity who previously headed The Ohio State University and the University of California, Irvine, was selected as the next president of the University of California. He is the first Black leader in the system’s 152-year history. Drake, who chairs the Commonwealth Fund’s board of directors, has spent nearly four decades in the California university system.
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New Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellows in Health Equity Leadership
The two newest Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellows in Health Equity Leadership began their 22 months of study at the Yale School of Management’s M.B.A. for Executives program. They are Fatimah Loren Muhammad, executive director of the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention, and Mikah Owen, M.D., a primary care pediatrician and assistant clinical professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, Davis.
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What’s Driving Americans’ Views on Health Care Reform?
Many Americans believe our health insurance system needs reform. Writing in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, researchers from Harvard University and the Commonwealth Fund consider how variations in political values, attitudes toward government, and experiences with the health care system shape people’s preferences with regard to health system change.
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Transgender Americans Just Lost Health Protections. Now What?
On June 12, the Trump administration eliminated federal protections against discrimination in health care for transgender people. The Commonwealth Fund’s Corinne Lewis, Yaphet Getachew, and Mekdes Tsega talk about the implications of the new rule for transgender people — particularly for trans people of color — on The Dose podcast.
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Oklahoma Says OK to Medicaid Expansion
On To the Point, the Commonwealth Fund’s Akeiisa Coleman looks at how five states, including Oklahoma, used ballot measures to win voter approval for Medicaid expansion. While the initiatives have garnered widespread public support, she notes that “the road from passage to implementation can be long, winding, and challenging.”
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Has the Time Finally Come to Bring the Hospital Home?
The COVID-19 pandemic could be the catalyst for many changes in health care. One of the biggest could be allowing patients to get hospital-level care in their own home. The latest issue of Transforming Care highlights stories of health systems that are adopting the hospital-at-home approach.
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North Carolina Health Care Spending Data Released
A team of North Carolina researchers has released a major collection of interactive visualizations and data sets designed to help policymakers, journalists, and the general public better understand patterns in health care spending. With support from the Commonwealth Fund and Arnold Ventures, the collaborative project analyzed health insurance claims data across age groups, service categories, and sources of coverage within each of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
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