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

**Friday, November 6, 2020**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

COVID-19

Universal Testing To End The Pandemic

By Reda Cherif, Fuad Hasanov, and Michael Mina

In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, we urgently need an all-out effort
to set up a universal testing infrastructure. The technology to develop
rapid, convenient, and cheap tests already exists. Producing these tests
at the needed scale can be achieved quickly, and the annual cost would
be miniscule compared to the cost of the pandemic. Read More >>

LEGAL & REGULATORY ISSUES

Origins: Our Health Law Casebook And Tim Jost

By Barry R. Furrow, Thomas L. Greaney, Sandra H. Johnson, and Robert L.
Schwartz

One day over lunch 36 years ago, we original coauthors began to
speculate about whether we could create a health law casebook that
improved on the current offerings. We decided to collaborate to create
an improved model, calling it "Health Law" rather than "Law and
Medicine" to emphasize the changing nature of health care delivery by
the 1980s. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE

Racial/Ethnic And Income-Based Disparities In Health Savings Account
Participation Among Privately Insured Adults

By Jacqueline Ellison, Paul Shafer, and Megan B. Cole

High-deductible health plans (HDHPs), which are increasingly prevalent
among people with private health insurance, are often paired with health
savings accounts (HSAs) to improve access to care before the enrollee
meets their deductible. Using survey data, Jacqueline Ellison and
coauthors identify racial and ethnic, as well as socioeconomic,
disparities in enrollment in HDHPs and HSAs. Read More >>

Read the November 2020 Table of Contents
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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Mental Health Care

The rise of peer support is a bright spot in an otherwise strained
behavioral health system, but peer-support groups can't fill the gap
of other mental health professionals. Reread this article from 2019
written by Michele Cohen Marill on peer providers' lived experience
and ideas for recovery for the behavioral health workforce
.

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