From Urban Institute :: Health Policy Center <[email protected]>
Subject Racial equity in vaccine distribution requires data
Date February 11, 2021 12:31 PM
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Data are essential to prioritizing racial and ethnic equity in COVID-19 vaccination
Mitigating disparities in vaccine distribution requires attention to key priorities, including collecting and monitoring high-quality race and ethnicity data, increasing vaccine availability in hard-hit communities, and addressing vaccine hesitancy among populations at high risk of exposure to COVID-19.

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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary care practices
This brief shares findings from structured discussions with primary care practices of varying sizes and geographies to assess the impact the pandemic has had on their practices, both from an operational and financial standpoint.

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Medicaid expansion would have a larger impact than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic
If the 14 states that had not expanded Medicaid eligibility in 2020 had done so, the number of uninsured people would have dropped by 4.4 million in the last three quarters of the year, 600,000 more people than we estimated absent the pandemic.

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Many uninsured adults have not tried to enroll in Medicaid or Marketplace coverage
Nearly half of all adults uninsured in September 2020 had neither looked for information on Marketplace coverage nor tried to obtain Medicaid or Children&rsquo;s Health Insurance Program coverage. This brief explains why.

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Immigrant families continued avoiding the safety net during the COVID-19 crisis
The chilling effects on public program participation experienced by immigrant families in 2020 are alarming in the context of the pandemic, during which people of color, many of whom are part of immigrant families, have disproportionately experienced economic and health-related hardships.

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Rationalizing a Medicare buy-in policy for adults ages 50&ndash;64 that builds on the ACA
With the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in place, fewer older adults remain uninsured, and analyses find buy-in policies have limited potential to expand coverage further.

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Medicaid physician fees remained substantially below fees paid by Medicare in 2019
Low Medicaid physician fees have important implications for Medicaid enrollees&rsquo; access to care and the costs and effects of proposals to expand coverage through a Medicaid buy-in program or a Medicaid-like public option.

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