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

**Tuesday, December 15, 2020**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

FOLLOWING THE ACA

Final Rule on Grandfathered Health Plans Will Allow Higher Consumer
Costs

By Katie Keith

On December 11, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Treasury issued a new final rule adjusting the requirements that group
plans and insurers must follow to maintain their "grandfathered" status
under the ACA. Although the changes are relatively minor, the new rule
will enable plans to impose higher cost-sharing requirements without
losing grandfathered status. Read More >>

MEDICARE

The Coming Crisis For The Medicare Trust Fund

By David Muhlestein

The Medicare Trust Fund's potential exhaustion in 2024 represents a
significant threat to the program. As it has done over the past 40 years
in the face of such threats, Congress must now rise to the task of
improving and preserving the Medicare program for future generations.
Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Alignment Of US School Lunches With The EAT-Lancet Healthy Reference
Diet's Standards For Planetary Health

By Mary Kathryn Poole, Aviva A. Musicus, and Erica L. Kenney

The National School Lunch Program benefits more than 30 million US
youth, but little is known about the environmental footprint of lunches
served through the program. Mary Kathryn Poole and coauthors analyzed
the composition of more than 5,000 school lunches to see how they
compared with benchmarks developed by the EAT-Lancet Commission's
healthy reference diet. Making small changes to school lunches could
lead to meaningful improvements in food production and positive impacts
on environmental health. Hear more from Poole on today's episode of A
Health Podyssey
.
Read More >>

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Can Climate Change Solutions Be Served With School Lunches?

Alan Weil, Mary Kathryn Poole

Listen to Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Mary
Kathryn Poole, a PhD student in population health sciences at the
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, on how school lunch programs
could affect planetary health.

Listen here.

**A CLOSER LOOK**-Health Impacts Of Climate Change On People Of Color

Climate change is one of many factors that contributes to people of
color experiencing worse health outcomes than their white counterparts.
In a September blog post titled "The Role Of Racial Justice In Building
A Culture Of Health," Alonzo Plough and Gail C. Christopher discuss how
"a lack of political power creates racially specific health crises."
They contextualize the disproportionate health impact of the climate
crisis on people of color

with other politically influenced disadvantages that fall along racial
lines including income, housing, and education.

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