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Dear John,

The April 2021 issue of Health Affairs will be released on April 5.
Today, we're giving you a sneak peak of what's inside.

April 2021: Access, ACA, Spending, And More

The April 2021 issue of Health Affairs includes articles on some of our
most popular topics: access to care, how the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
affects coverage, the effects of health spending policies, and much
more.

The issue includes research on:

* Out-of-pocket costs for Medicare beneficiaries with incomes just above
the coverage "cliff"

* How the use of medication to treat opioid use disorder by individuals
referred to treatment by a criminal justice agency differed in states
that expanded Medicaid compared to those that did not

* The ACA's effect on use of long-acting reversible contraceptives for
women enrolled in high-deductible health plans

* How coverage compared for women before and after giving birth in
states that did and did not expand Medicaid after the ACA's
implementation

* The costs associated with urgent care centers, surprise billing for
emergency department use, referrals made after telemedicine visits in a
commercially insured population, and medical device company payments to
physicians

* Accounting for patients' social risk factors when adjusting quality
metrics used to judge hospital performance

In a new Health Affairs Blog post, Andrés J. Gallegos, the newly
appointed chair of the National Council on Disability, discusses how
explicit and implicit discriminatory bias within the health care
professions

represent an insidious virus against which people with disabilities have
been fighting for decades. Also on the blog, E. Thomas Ewing of Virginia
Tech argues that comparisons of deaths stemming from the pandemics of
1918-19 and 2020-21

will be more insightful if we understand whose deaths were (and were
not) included in the count of victims during the "Spanish flu."

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Eviction And Health: A Vicious Cycle Exacerbated By A Pandemic

A new health policy brief

from **Health Affairs** with support
from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
highlights the prevalence of eviction and how additional consequences of
COVID-19 have affected the health of evicted households and their
communities. This brief joins

**Health Affairs'** ongoing series of policy briefs on the social
determinants of health
.
It is authored by Gracie Himmelstein and Matthew Desmond, researchers
from Princeton University's Eviction Lab. Desmond is the Pulitzer
Prize-winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American
City.

Read More

Your Daily Digest

Misperceptions Of People With Disabilities Lead To Low-Quality Care: How
Policy Makers Can Counter The Harm And Injustice

Andrés J. Gallegos

Measuring Mortality In The Pandemics Of 1918-19 And 2020-21

E. Thomas Ewing

Eviction And Health: A Vicious Cycle Exacerbated By A Pandemic

Gracie Himmelstein and Matthew Desmond

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