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

**Friday, February 5, 2021**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

SUBSTANCE USE

New Interventions To Address Substance Use Disorder Must Take Financial
Sustainability Into Account

By Dominic Hodgkin, Constance M. Horgan, Maureen Stewart, and Stephanie
Jordan Brown

If new interventions are not financially sustainable, they might not be
maintained in the organizations testing them and might not be taken up
by the wider health care system-which means that they won't have any
lasting impact on the opioid epidemic or substance use more generally.
Read More >>

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HEALTH EQUITY

Philanthropy's Increased Focus On Health Equity Post-COVID-19

By Cara James

Most of the foundation executives and program staff surveyed by
Grantmakers In Health said that since March 2020 (when COVID-19 started
to flare up in the US), their health equity programming has changed or
will change. Respondents also talked about their foundations'
initiatives on diversity, equity, and inclusion, right in their own
organizations. The most common challenge reported was getting their
boards of trustees' support for these external and internal equity
efforts. Read More >>

**IN THE JOURNAL**

CONSIDERING HEALTH SPENDING

Annual Out-Of-Pocket Spending Clusters Within Short Time Intervals:
Implications For Health Care Affordability

By Steven Chen, Paul R. Shafer, Stacie B. Dusetzina, and Michal Horný

Steven Chen of Emory University and coauthors analyze the distribution
of out-of-pocket spending throughout the year to draw insights about the
implications for health care affordability. Read More >>

Beyond The High Prices Of Prescription Drugs: A Framework To Assess
Costs, Resource Allocation, And Public Funding

By Jonathan J. Darrow and Donald W. Light

Jonathan J. Darrow of Harvard Medical School and Donald W. Light of the
Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine provide a comprehensive
framework for legislators and scholars to use in assessing the total
societal costs of drugs. Read More >>

These articles appear in the series Considering Health Spending
.

Read the February 2021 Table of Contents.

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HOT ARTICLES IN JANUARY

Arbitration Over Out-Of-Network Medical Bills: Evidence From New Jersey
Payment Disputes

By Benjamin L. Chartock, Loren Adler, Bich Ly, Erin Duffy, and Erin
Trish

Clinical Outcomes Of A COVID-19 Vaccine: Implementation Over Efficacy

By A. David Paltiel, Jason L. Schwartz, Amy Zheng, and Rochelle P.
Walensky

Pricing Universal Health Care: How Much Would The Use Of Medical Care
Rise?

By Adam Gaffney, David U. Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler, and James G.
Kahn

The Affordable Care Act Reduced Income Inequality In The US

By Matthew Buettgens, Fredric Blavin, and Clare Pan

National Health Care Spending In 2019: Steady Growth For The Fourth
Consecutive Year

By Anne B. Martin, Micah Hartman, David Lassman, and Aaron Catlin

What Is And Isn't In The Biden Executive Order On Medicaid And The ACA

Listen to Rob Lott, Chris Fleming, and Katie Keith discuss the Biden
administration's executive order on Medicaid and the Affordable Care
Act.

Listen here.

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**ELEVATING VOICES: Black History Month**
Racial justice broke through the COVID-19 headlines in 2020.
Conversations around racial equity included a link between racial
justice and building a culture of health. This relationship was
explained in a blog post by Alonzo Plough and Gail C. Christopher in
which they state: "A culture of health and a culture of democracy are
created and sustained within a web of mutuality that requires equity
.
We must come together as a society to end racism, as well as its
systemic and structural manifestations."

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