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**The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs**

**Wednesday, October 16, 2019**

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IN THE JOURNAL

AHEAD OF PRINT: CONSIDERING HEALTH SPENDING

Changes In The Equity Of US Health Care Financing In The Period
2005-16

By Paul D. Jacobs and Thomas M. Selden

Studies examining health care spending in the US have found regressive
patterns of incidence, with total health-related spending as a share of
income being higher for lower-income households than for higher-income
households. This new study, being released ahead of print by Health
Affairs, looks at how the distribution of household spending across
income groups changed between 2005 and 2016. Read More >>

This study, part of the journal's Considering Health Spending
series, will also appear
in Health Affairs' November issue.

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

FOLLOWING THE ACA

Court Vacates Parts Of ACA Nondiscrimination Rule

By Katie Keith

On October 15, 2019, Judge Reed O'Connor, a federal district court
judge in Texas, issued a long-awaited ruling in Franciscan Alliance v.
Azar. Judge O'Connor vacated parts of an Obama-era nondiscrimination
rule that explicitly prohibit discrimination based on gender identity
and termination of pregnancy. Read More >>

SYSTEMS OF CARE

It's Time For The Health Care System To Reckon With The Human Costs Of
Climate Change

By Dhruv Shankar and Sofia Ahsanuddin

Public reporting of greenhouse gas emissions data, even if limited
initially to a few organizations, would mark an important first step
toward greater transparency and environmental stewardship in the health
care industry. Read More >>

HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTS

PAST EVENT:  VIOLENCE & HEALTH

Violence permeates our society with consequences for victims,
perpetrators, and communities alike. Even as media attention tends to
focus on incidents of mass violence, it is the daily burden of violence
in its many forms that takes the greater toll. Get caught up with the
event:  slides

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A CLOSER LOOK-Drug Shortages

Across the country, there is a growing scarcity of vincristine, a
chemotherapy drug used to treat many childhood cancers. The shortage is
threatening to undermine many young patients' treatment. In 2014,
Health Affairs explored the multiple factors driving drug shortages
in a
Health Policy Brief.

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