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

**Monday, November 16, 2020**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS AND POLICIES

"Better Care Plan": A Public Option Choice

By George C. Halvorson, Stephen M. Shortell, Laurence Kotlikoff,
Elizabeth Mitchell, Richard M. Scheffler, John Toussaint, Peter A.
Wadsworth, and Gail R. Wilensky

The public option plan outlined under the Biden-Harris health care
proposal offers an opportunity to advance the use of prepaid,
risk-adjusted, per-member-per-month budgets that will set the country on
a path to continuously improving care and sustaining universal coverage.

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IN THE JOURNAL

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE

Variation In The Effectiveness Of Collaborative Care For Depression:
Does It Matter Where You Get Your Care?

By Jürgen Unützer, Andrew C. Carlo, Robert Arao, Melinda Vredevoogd,
John Fortney, Diane Powers, and Joan Russo

Randomized controlled trials have demonstrated that the collaborative
care model for depression in primary care is more effective than usual
care, but little is known about the effectiveness of this approach in
real-world settings. Jürgen Unützer and coauthors used
patient-reported outcome data from 11,303 patients receiving
collaborative care for depression in 135 primary care clinics to examine
variations in depression outcomes.
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PODCAST: NEWSMAKERS

The ACA, The Election, And The Supreme Court

Alan Weil

In a WTOP-FM interview, Health Affairs Editor-In-Chief Alan Weil
assesses the November 10 oral argument at the Supreme Court over the
constitutionality of the individual mandate and the fate of the
Affordable Care Act.

Listen here.

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**A CLOSER LOOK**- Empowering Nurses

Once COVID-19 hit the nation, so did a newfound appreciation for
essential health care workers, including the largest group of health
professionals in the US: nurses. Is enough being done today to ensure
that nurses are empowered to enact change within the health care system?
Reread "Empowering Nurses To Innovate At The Bedside, Then Spread
Their Innovations
"
today.

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