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In 2021 Health Affairs continued its extensive coverage of a wide range of health topics, including health care spending, health equity, state and federal policy reform, COVID-19, and much more. In case you missed them, today we are revisiting our year-end lists highlighting the top articles from 2021.

Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil’s list of top 10 Health Affairs articles goes beyond our “most-read” articles and spotlights those that explore particularly interesting questions or use unique methods or data sources. Here are Weil’s top three:

1. The Effect Of The Affordable Care Act On Cancer Detection Among The Near-Elderly by Fabian Duarte et al.

2. Annual Out-Of-Pocket Spending Clusters Within Short Time Intervals: Implications For Health Care Affordability by Steven Chen et al.

3. High Nursing Staff Turnover In Nursing Homes Offers Important Quality Information by Ashvin Gandhi et al.

If there is one thing that 2021 has proven, it’s that COVID-19–related research will continue to remain a priority for our readers. Here are the first three of our top ten most-read journal articles of 2021:

1. Vaccinations Against COVID-19 May Have Averted Up To 140,000 Deaths In The United States by Sumedha Gupta et al.

2. Health Costs And Financing: Challenges And Strategies For A New Administration by William Shrank et al.

3. Actualizing Better Health And Health Care For Older Adults by Terry Fulmer et al.

In 2021 Health Affairs Blog became Health Affairs Forefront, and the online publication celebrated its 15th anniversary. Below are the top three articles published on Health Affairs Forefront during this monumental year:

1. Measuring Mortality In The Pandemics Of 1918–19 And 2020–21 by E. Thomas Ewing

2. Workers With COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects Deserve Time Off To Recover by Dorit Rubenstein Reiss and Arthur Caplan

3. Lessons In COVID-19 Vaccination From Israel, Bruce Rosen and coauthors

Today in Health Affairs Forefront, Michael Alkire forecasts trends in 2022 that could usher in changes for health care providers, who are operating in a more complex environment than ever before.

Maureen McCoy and coauthors discuss how losing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits that were extended to college-age students during the pandemic could have detrimental effects on academic performance and health.

Katie Keith discusses the news from the US Department of Health and Human Services that Affordable Care Act enrollment for 2022 is higher by about 2.5 million people than last year's enrollment.

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