“All Hands on Deck”: The COVID-19 Pandemic Through Nurses’ Eyes
Guest Mary Wakefield takes us on a journey from rural hospitals to clinics in underserved areas with one group of frontline health workers: nurses. On The Dose podcast, Wakefield says the pandemic has revealed that America’s public health infrastructure is “incredibly anemic.”
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Pediatrics During COVID-19: Less Time Treating the Flu, More Time Responding to Anxiety and Depression
Pediatric office visits in 2020 were 24 percent lower than usual. In a feature article, the Commonwealth Fund’s Sarah Klein and Martha Hostetter interviewed leaders of six diverse pediatric practices to find the story behind this trend. They found there have been fewer sick visits — but fewer well visits, too. At the same time, pediatricians report dramatic increases in depression and anxiety among their young patients.
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Managing Care for Medicare Beneficiaries with Chronic Conditions During the Pandemic
Disruptions to health care caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have made managing chronic health conditions more challenging for many people, particularly Medicare beneficiaries. In a new Commonwealth Fund issue brief, Harvard and Brown researchers detail how the pandemic has affected beneficiaries with chronic conditions and explore ways to ensure they can get the care and support they need to stay healthy and safe.
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CHCI Virtual Briefing Series: COVID Vaccines
On March 11, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) hosted a live webinar. The featured speakers, Representatives Jesús G. “Chuy” García (Ill.) and Lori Trahan (Mass.), along with industry experts, discussed equitable vaccine distribution, vaccine hesitancy within Latino communities, and the long-term implications of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Have You Seen Our New Website?
With the redesigned and revamped www.commonwealthfund.org, finding our health care policy research, data, and analysis has never been easier. Our goals for this redesign were simple: create a clean, modern site with an intuitive navigation system. Along the way, we also improved our site search and added new content about the Fund’s mission and goals. |
Jost: Legal Challenges to ACA Will Continue Beyond Supreme Court’s Impending Ruling
Within the next few weeks, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). While it seems likely the Court will uphold most, if not all, of the law, the legal road for the ACA is unlikely to end there. Health law expert Timothy S. Jost reports that new challenges to the ACA increasingly are not based on administrative irregularities or on statutory grounds, but on the Constitution itself.
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How Will We Preserve Competition and Protect Consumers as Health Care Consolidation Continues?
Consolidation in the health care industry will almost certainly continue in the aftermath of the pandemic, further reducing competition and potentially increasing prices. Writing in Harvard Business Review, the Commonwealth Fund’s Lovisa Gustafsson and David Blumenthal, M.D., predict that large health care systems and insurers will go on a shopping spree for struggling providers once the pandemic subsides. By acting now, they say, Congress and regulators can help prevent market distortions that could increase costs while eroding quality of care.
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Costa Rica Has an Excellent Primary Health Care System. Can the U.S. Learn from It?
During the 1990s, Costa Rica revamped its health care system. Officials assigned all citizens to an integrated primary health care team based on geographic location and trained and deployed community health workers throughout the country. In a new case study of Costa Rican health care, researchers from Ariadne Labs and the Commonwealth Fund show how the country has managed to improve health care quality, access, and equity while spending less on health care than the world average.
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Mental Health Treatment in the U.S. and Other Countries
A Health Affairs study found the highest-risk groups for suicide, poisoning, chronic liver disease, and other so-called deaths of despair were adults with functional disabilities; those unemployed; separated or divorced people; and those with military service. A new report
from the Commonwealth Fund explores how other countries have managed to expand mental health treatment and promote well-being on a national scale in recent years . |
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