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

**Monday, December 7, 2020**

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IN THE JOURNAL

NEW ISSUE:
CLIMATE & HEALTH

The December issue of Health Affairs covers the intersection of climate
change and health. This issue was supported by the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation and The Kresge Foundation.

Read the December 2020 table of contents.

L
isten
to an introduction to the issue from Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil.

Read "From the Editor-in-Chief."

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

MEDICAID

Making Care Work Pay: How A Living Wage For LTSS Workers Benefits All

By Christian Weller, Beth Almeida, Marc A. Cohen, and Robyn I. Stone

Raising the pay of direct care workers would yield an impressive return
on investment. Care recipients would receive more consistent and
reliable care; workers would enjoy enhanced financial security;
long-term services and supports (LTSS) providers would see fewer
staffing shortages, reduced turnover, and higher productivity; and local
economies would expand as direct care workers increased their spending
and depended less on government assistance to make ends meet. Read More
>>

ACCESS TO CARE

President-Elect Biden Can Take Administrative Action To Dramatically Cut
Consumers' Health Care Costs And Cover Millions Of Uninsured

By Stan Dorn and Frederick Isasi

The Biden administration can make important progress by using its
administrative authority to make individual health insurance
substantially more affordable while extending health care to millions of
hard-working families who are uninsured today. Read More >>

TELEHEALTH

As Value-Based Care And Telehealth Rise, Patient Experience Measurement
Desperately Needs An Update For The Digital Age

By Sarah Hudson Scholle, Margaret E. O'Kane, and Paul Cotton

There is broad and growing agreement about the need to develop better
tools to measure patient experience. Fortunately, there is an array of
digital tools to make this possible: They are readily available and
widely used in other industries. Read More >>

HEALTH AFFAIRS BRANDED POST

Targeting Health Care's "Triple Aim": Leaders Equipped With Tech and
Business Expertise

Supported by Stanford Medicine

For decades now, health care leaders and policy makers have sought to
achieve health care's "Triple Aim": reduce cost, broaden access,
enhance quality care. Read More >>

**A CLOSER LOOK**-Health and Climate

The December issue of Health Affairs on Health and Climate is only an
introduction to the increasingly intertwined relationship between
population health and climate change. As the issue grows, so will state
and federal imperatives to implement solutions. In a 2018 EntryPoint,
David Tuller examines California's extensive efforts to combat climate
change .

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