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Wednesday, November 4, 2020
TODAY ON THE BLOG

DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

Getting Our Knees Off Black People’s Necks: An Anti-Racist Approach to Medical Care
By Rupinder K. Legha, David R. Williams, Lonnie Snowden, and Jeanne Miranda

Racism and anti-Blackness are inherent in our country’s structures and medical systems. The authors propose an anti-racist approach to medical care that recognizes racism’s historical roots, identifies racism within health care providers and medical systems, and then dismantles it.
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IN THE JOURNAL

CONSIDERING HEALTH SPENDING

Geographic Variation In Medicare Per Capita Spending Narrowed From 2007 To 2017
By Yongkang Zhang and Jing Li

Geographic variation in Medicare spending has long been viewed as evidence of health system inefficiency. With administered pricing, Medicare spending variation reflects different patterns of care that cannot be explained by population health characteristics. Analyzing fee-for-service data between 2007 and 2017, Yongkang Zhang and Jing Li report that the risk- and price-adjusted gap in spending between the highest and lowest-decile hospital referral regions declined by 14 percent. Read More >>

A CLOSER LOOK—Bipartisan Future for Health Care?

It has been an election unlike any other, and the next four years will be similar. In 2016 Anand Parekh and coauthors reviewed bipartisan opportunities for health care during Donald Trump’s presidency. How have partisan lines shifted on key health policy issues and what does that mean moving forward?

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