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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 >>

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 >>

HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTS

PAST EVENT: TELEHEALTH

The December 2018 issue of Health Affairs is dedicated to Telehealth, a broad range of technologies used to connect clinicians to each other and to their patients. Distinguished authors examine the broad reach of telehealth and also highlight significant areas of unrealized potential. Get caught up with the event: slides (click on Download Event), video, and podcast.

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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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