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

**Wednesday, September 4, 2019**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

MARKETS

A Single Public Plan Option Versus A Multiplan Approach: A Colorado Case
Study

By Billy Wynne and David Anderson

This analysis suggests that a single public option plan program design
would provide greater stability for the existing, non-public option plan
market than would a multiple public option plan program design. Read
More >>

CONSIDERING HEALTH SPENDING

Putting The Costs And Benefits Of New Gene Therapies Into Perspective

By Joshua T. Cohen, James D. Chambers, Madison C. Silver, Pei-Jung Lin,
and Peter J. Neumann

Despite many challenges, advancing these approaches will help ensure
that we reward those therapies that fulfill the promise of cell and gene
therapy, while limiting the resources spent on therapies that fail to
pan out. Read More >>

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IN THE JOURNAL

CULTURE OF HEALTH

Gentrification And The Health Of Low-Income Children In New York City

By Kacie L. Dragan, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Sherry A. Glied

Kacie Dragan and coauthors analyze the health of children born in
gentrifying neighborhoods in New York City as they reached ages 9-11.
Read More >>

Cooling The Hot Spots Where Child Hospitalization Rates Are High: A
Neighborhood Approach To Population Health

By Andrew F. Beck, Kristy L. Anderson, Kate Rich, Stuart C. Taylor,
Srikant B. Iyer, Uma R. Kotagal, and Robert S. Kahn

In 2015 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center began an
initiative designed to reduce the number of children hospitalized in
targeted neighborhoods with elevated rates of pediatric hospitalization.
Andrew Beck and colleagues describe the comprehensive approach the
initiative took to addressing children's medical and social needs and
report an almost 20 percent decline in the hospitalization rate in those
neighborhoods. Read More >>

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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Election 2020 | Medical Debt

This past weekend, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that he plans to
release a proposal to cancel $81 billion in medical debt. When asked
where he got the figure, Sanders pointed to a Health Affairs journal
article
by
economists Michael Batty, Christa Gibbs, and Benedic Ippolito citing
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau data. The authors wrote: "In 2016
roughly 16 percent of consumers' credit reports included medical debt
(which we define as unpaid medical bills in collections), with more than
$81 billion owed."

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