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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Thursday, September 5, 2019
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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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Speakers
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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