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Wednesday, July 7, 2021
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Shifting Demographics Pose Policy Challenges
Since the 1960s the immigrant population in the United States has increased fourfold. The changing demographics of the country present challenges for health policy makers as they adapt to this influx.
They write that "health care inequities among immigrants and US-born residents increased after the Great Recession and later diminished after the Affordable Care Act took effect." They note, however, unremitting health disparities among noncitizen immigrants.
Bustamante will join Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil on an upcoming episode of A
Health Podyssey podcast to discuss this research.
Today on Health Affairs Blog, Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) argue that now is the time to take action on junk insurance plans and close the Trump administration
loophole that allowed these plans to flourish. Jacob Vanhouten and Cynthia Brandt argue that universal patient identifiers would improve the accuracy, efficiency, and safety of health care, and a ban on the use of federal funding to develop them is hampering progress.
Stephanie Teleki writes about the California Health Care Foundation's investment in development of a new, free e-learning course that challenges providers to look within themselves to root outimplicit racial bias in maternity care.
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