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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Thursday, December 17, 2020
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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 >>
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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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