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The US presidency and both houses of Congress have taken on a new, blue look since the 2018 midterms. Democrats first took the House of Representatives, then in 2020 won the presidency and control of the Senate. What does this mean for health care and benefits? Learn more >>
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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This Benefits Buzz podcast episode and blog post cover post-election health care topics such as Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies, the future of HSAs, and potential rollbacks of the Trump agenda. Learn more >>
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.
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