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

**Thursday, December 17, 2020**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

DISPARITIES

New Organ Donation Rule Is A Win For Black Patients And Health Equity

By Ben Jealous, Jayme Locke, and Greg Segal

Recent reforms to the organ donation system could help address racial
inequities in access to organ transplants and should be implemented with
due urgency. Read More >>

COVID-19

To Correct Population Health Disparities, Reinvigorate Public Health
Systems: The Continuing Lessons Of COVID-19

By Ronald O. Valdiserri

Reflecting on how our country has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic
offers insights into why a health care system that has been designed and
financed to address individual, often acute, medical needs cannot, by
itself, ensure improvements in health at a population level.
Read More >>
  

Emergency Use Authorization For COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibodies:
Challenges And Lessons Learned

By Colette DeJong, Bernard Lo, and Alice Hm Chen

SARS-CoV-2 monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are among the latest
investigational COVID-19 therapies to receive emergency use
authorization from the FDA. It is essential that we learn from early
experiences and mistakes with mAbs and avoid similar mistakes with
future COVID-19 therapies. Read More >>

LEGAL & REGULATORY ISSUES

Restoring The Preemption Status Quo:

**Rutledge**, ERISA, And State Health Policy Efforts

By Carmel Shachar and I. Glenn Cohen

The

**Rutledge** decision represents a return to the pre-

**Gobeille** ERISA preemption status quo, but not a new path forward in
balancing ERISA and state health care reforms. There is still a
significant need for Congress to reconsider the broad preemption mandate
it created in ERISA, especially in the context of health care policy.
Read More >>

The Implications Of

**Rutledge** v. PCMA For State Health Care Cost Regulation

By Erin C. Fuse Brown and Elizabeth Y. McCuskey

The Supreme Court's

**Rutledge** decision opens up further avenues beyond pharmacy benefit
managers to broader state health reforms aimed at reigning in the costs
of health services and prescription drugs, protecting consumers, and
expanding affordable access to more people. Read More >>

HEALTH AFFAIRS BRANDED POST

Support the One Year Delay of the Medicare Advantage VBID Hospice
Component

By S. Edo Banach
Supported by National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

The CMS Innovation Center's Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance
Design (MA VBID) Model could serve as a good opportunity to test
enhancements in care coordination between health care systems while
expanding access to hospice and palliative care.  Read More >>

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Extreme weather events are becoming more severe due to climate change.
This month's issue includes three articles about how climate
influences the hazard profile of hurricanes, and the stressors that
survivors experience in the aftermath of these storms. James M. Shultz
and coauthors focus on the mental health effects of hurricanes
;
Ethan J. Raker and coauthors shareinsights from the Resilience in
Survivors of Katrina (RISK) Project
;
and Saria Hassan and coauthors review the challenges of chronic disease
management in the Caribbean after natural disasters
.

Read the December 2020 Table of Contents
.

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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Hurricanes And Disaster Preparedness

Climate change has worsened natural disasters by making them more
frequent and more severe. For example, hurricanes have become stronger,
wetter, and slower moving over coastal and island populations as the
earth warms. To learn more about the impacts of severe hurricanes on
health care resources and behavioral health, check out Nicole Lurie and
coauthors' 2015 blog post about emergency preparedness ten years after
Hurricane Katrina
.

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