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A Weekly Health Policy Round Up From Health Affairs
January 31, 2021
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THIS WEEK ON THE BLOG
DISPARITIES
An Editor’s View Of Race, Racism, And Equity
By Alan Weil (1/26/21)
Dismantling institutional racism and building equitable systems takes time and effort. Our agenda has three elements: equitable participation, new voices, and introspection. Read More >>
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COVID-19
Five Urgent Public Health Policies To Combat The Mental Health Effects Of COVID-19By Cindy B. Veldhuis, Elizabeth Stuart, and M. Daniele Fallin (1/27/21)
Mental health demands a comprehensive public health pandemic strategy, including universal screenings, anti-stigma campaigns, and health equity–focused access to mental health care, with specific efforts focused on the needs of high-risk populations. Read More
>> FOLLOWING THE ACA
Biden Executive Order To Reopen HealthCare.gov, Make Other Changes
By Katie Keith (1/29/21)
On January 28, President Biden took executive action directing HHS to expand access to ACA coverage and bolster the Medicaid program. He also issued a memorandum on women’s health. These directives
make clear that the Biden administration considers HealthCare.gov and Medicaid to be critical tools in its pandemic response toolbox. Read More
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PUBLIC HEALTH Philanthropy's Critical Role In Public Health AdvocacyBy Betsy Fuller and Kelly Henning (1/28/21) More philanthropic organizations need to catalyze public health advocacy to realize sustainable, people-driven improvements in public health. The authors, who are both at Bloomberg Philanthropies, provide examples
of funding advocacy work, including its funding of efforts to reduce use of sugary beverages in Mexico and improve maternal mortality rates in Tanzania. When philanthropy supports advocacy groups to push government to do better and serve communities through policy change, that support can help improve and save lives. Read More >>
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By Kashmira Chawla, Makela C. Stankey, Jacquelyn Corley, and Craig D. McClain (1/28/21)
The Biden administration must create a more inclusive, decolonized, accountable policy plan for global health security by partnering with other countries to support equitable health care and resilient health systems. Read More >>
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AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
How President Biden Can Make The ACA An Even Bigger Deal
By Joel Ario and Katherine Hempstead (1/25/21)
President Biden takes office with the expectation that he will face stiff Republican opposition to expanding the Affordable Care Act (ACA). That may well turn out to be true for his most ambitious coverage goals. Nevertheless, the president will have many opportunities to build on the ACA foundation. Read More >>
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A new health policy brief from Health Affairs with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides a general overview of the research on suicide risk and protective factors, highlights current suicide prevention strategies, and notes policy opportunities for improving multisectoral prevention efforts. This brief joins Health Affairs’ ongoing series of policy briefs on social determinants of health.
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Listen to Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Adam Gaffney, a pulmonary specialist from Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School, on how medical care use could change under universal health coverage.
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NURSING HOMES
Nearly One In Five Skilled Nursing Facilities Awarded Positive Incentives Under Value-Based Purchasing
By Laura Coots Daras, Alison Vadnais, Ye Zhang Pogue, Michael DiBello, Christopher Karwaski, Melvin Ingber, Fang He, Micah Segelman, Lang Le, and James Poyer
Laura Coots Daras from Insight Policy Research and coauthors from RTI International and the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services report on the first two rounds of incentive payments made through Medicare’s Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing Program. What did their findings show about positive and negative incentive payments?
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GRANTWATCH
Substance Use Disorders: Funding For Prevention
By Lee L. Prina
The January 2021 GrantWatch column focuses on the efforts of foundations around the country to prevent substance use disorders, including opioid addiction and alcoholism. Two foundations mentioned are broadening their focus from the opioid epidemic to substance use disorder in general. Among subjects mentioned are harm reduction strategies, the role of Medicaid in treatment, and how COVID-19 is affecting opioid-related mortality. And in personnel news, the May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust, located in California, has a new CEO. (Its funding priorities are adults and transitioning youth with disabilities, elders, foster youth, and veterans and military
families.) Read More >>
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LEADING TO HEALTH: OPIOID USE DISORDER
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BOOK REVIEW
Rick Mathis reviews ACA architect Ezekiel Emanuel’s new book, Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care? Read More >>
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Listen to Jessica Bylander and Vabren Watts discuss the Biden administration's vision for advancing racial equity and the new Health Affairs health equity project.
Listen here.
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