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

**Thursday, September 5, 2019**

HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTS

MILITARY HEALTH SYSTEMS

September 12, 2019
Reserve Officers Association, 1 Constitution Avenue NE, Washington, DC
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Eastern
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Join us on September 12 and participate in a robust discussion on The
Role Of The Military Health System In Ensuring Readiness And Supporting
Skills For Battlefield Support and The Complex Relationship Between
Military Treatment Facilities And Purchased Civilian Care.    

AGING AND HEALTH:  IMPROVING CARE FOR OLDER ADULTS

New Event!
September 24, 2019
National Press Club - 529 14th St NW, Washington, DC
10:00 am - 12:00 pm Eastern
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Join Health Affairs and The John A. Hartford Foundation for a robust
policy conversation featuring authors from the journal's Aging &
Health series to discuss topics including Moving Serious Illness Care
from Hospital to Home, Disparities in Home- and Community-Based Care,
and Impact of Caregiving on Spouses and Need for Support.

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

PAYMENT

To Address Surprise Medical Billing, Use What Works

By Senators Bill Cassidy and Maggie Hassan

Under the Stopping the Outrageous Practice of Surprise Medical Bills Act
of 2019, we create a balance of power between all stakeholders while
taking the patient out of the middle, and offering the provider a
reasonable, defined rate with a safety valve of an arbitration system
circumscribed by explicit criteria. Read More >>

WORKFORCE IN THE COMMUNITY

Shifting the Burden? Consequences Of Postacute Care Payment Reform On
Informal Caregivers

By Paula Chatterjee, Allison K. Hoffman, and Rachel M. Werner

Future policies must mitigate the burdens, inequities, and economic
insecurities that result for families and friends who provide
post-discharge care-these are the societal costs of caring for
patients at home. Read More >>

MEDICARE

Relatively Modest Health Reform May Create More Value Than 'Medicare
for All'

By Jeff C. Goldsmith

Political leaders should close gaps in social care, expand the
public-health primary care infrastructure, and execute limited coverage
expansion for mid-life Americans. Read More >>

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IN THE JOURNAL

CULTURE OF HEALTH

Can Medicaid Expansion Prevent Housing Evictions?

By Heidi L. Allen, Erica Eliason, Naomi Zewde, and Tal Gross

Medicaid coverage has been shown to reduce the financial burden on
low-income families, leading Heidi Allen and coauthors to explore
whether that translates into lower rates of housing evictions. Using the
natural experiment of phased-in Medicaid expansion by counties in
California, they find that "for every thousand new enrollees, there
were approximately twenty-two fewer evictions per year." Read More >>

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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Nutrition

Eating a diet of french fries, Pringles, and white bread was enough to
make one teenage boy lose his sight, according to a case study published
in the Annals of Internal Medicine. A March 2019 Health Affairs Blog
post by Rachel Kogan provides a history
of
the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act and refutes the policy justifications
provided by the US Department of Agriculture for rolling back efforts to
combat childhood obesity and provide children with more nutritious
foods.

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