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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.
HA Ahead of Print Jacobs and Selden

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 (click on Download Event), video, and podcast (available by October 18).

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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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