The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
August 15,
2021
Dear John,
Health Affairs’ continued leadership in the field of health policy is validated by its recent increase in Journal Impact Factor score to 6.301 for 2020, up almost a full point from 2019. This places Health Affairs in the top tier of journals in two categories: Health Policy and Services, and Health Care Sciences and Services.
Read on for highlights from Health Affairs this week.
The Supreme Court’s ruling to uphold the law in California v. Texas by a resounding 7-2
decision
The Biden administration's first proposed rule on Marketplace coverage
Implementation of the No Surprises Act banning many surprise medical bills
Continuing rise in Marketplace enrollment due to the broad COVID-19 special enrollment period and enhanced premium tax credits under the American Rescue Plan Act
Federal request for Georgia to submit more information to assess the state’s Section 1332 waiver
The Department of Health and Human Services’ announcement of funding for navigators and state-based Marketplaces
On Thursday, as part of our Policy Spotlight series, Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviewed Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the new Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The discussion covered a number of topics, including the how the unfinished work of the ACA is an important effort to address health equity, maternal health as an administrative priority, and the future of value-based payments and telehealth.
Also on the blog, Alain Enthoven argued that the health care “system” we have is designed perfectly to deliver the unsatisfactory results we see, but there is a better approach: managed competition.
James Robinson On The Drug Market, Innovation, Biosimilars, and What The French Get Right
Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews James Robinson from the University of California Berkeley,
School of Public Health on drug innovation, biosimilars, and market competition in the United States and beyond.
The Health Equity Fellowship for Traineesis part of Health Affairs’ national initiative to advance racial equity in health policy and health services scholarly publishing. Its objective is to value and increase the quality and quantity of equity-related research published in Health Affairs that isauthored by members of racial and ethnic groups that have historically been underrepresented in scholarly publishing.
In the program, fellows will receive multilayered mentorship from experienced Health Affairs authors and editorial staff for one year (from January 2022 to December 2022). Mentors will work with fellows to make fellows’ manuscript submissions more likely to be accepted by the journal or another journal within the fellowship year. Manuscript submissions must be related to racial equity.
The application period closes on September 13, 2021.
Listen to Health Affairs' Rob Lott and Jeff Byers discuss how public transportation affects health and health equity. In addition, they discuss the latest on the sweeping bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Health Affairs is the leading peer-reviewedjournalat the intersection of
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