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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
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TODAY ON THE BLOG
FOLLOWING THE ACA
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
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.
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IN THE JOURNAL
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Alignment Of US School Lunches With The EAT-Lancet Healthy Reference Diet’s Standards For Planetary HealthBy 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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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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