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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Thursday, November 21, 2019
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TODAY ON THE BLOG
SUBSTANCE ABUSE
The Opioid Epidemic: A Needed Focus On Adolescents And Young Adults
By Julie Uchitel, Scott E. Hadland, Sudha R. Raman, Mark B. McClellan, and Charlene A. Wong
From new payment models to specific care
delivery strategies, the spectrum of reforms described here to reduce the harms from opioids to Generation Z can support them in their adolescence and young adulthood, with benefits to be realized over a lifetime. Read More >>
RURAL HEALTH CARE
Right-Sizing Evidence-Based Programs To Improve Rural Health Care
By Elizabeth Ruen
Billings Clinic, an integrated health system in Montana, adapted the Alameda Model of emergency psychiatric care for its use. The staff believed that this evidence-based model from an urban area in California could be "right-sized" to serve a smaller population in a rural and frontier region. The
author reports some promising early results at Billings Clinic's psychiatric stabilization unit. The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust played an important role in those successes.
Read More >>
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DISPARITIES
Medicaid And Private Insurance Coverage For Low-Income Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, And Pacific Islanders, 2010–16
By John J. Park, Benjamin D. Sommers, Sarah Humble, Arnold M. Epstein, Graham A. Colditz, and Howard K. Koh
John Park and coauthors take a close look at the effects of the ACA on Medicaid and private insurance coverage for low-income Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. The authors report large gains in coverage in the period 2010–16 in both Medicaid expansion and nonexpansion states. Read More >>
ACCESS TO CARE
A Consumer-Centric Approach To Network Adequacy: Access To Four Specialties In California’s Marketplace
By Simon F. Haeder, David Weimer, and Dana B. Mukamel
Simon Haeder and coauthors incorporate more accurate
practicing physician data and measures of patients’ travel distance into traditional approaches for measuring health plan network adequacy. Focusing on four physician specialties in California, they show that "Marketplace plan networks are consistently narrower than their commercial plan counterparts." Read More >>
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HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTS–PAST EVENT: LOS ANGELES BRIEFING ON VIOLENCE & HEALTH
The Los Angeles forum for the October issue of Health Affairs, Violence & Health, explored the effects of exposure to violence, community responses to violence, and policy initiatives. Get caught up with the event: slides (click on Download Event), video, and podcast.
Access the October PRINT or ONLINE issue.
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A CLOSER LOOK—2020 Election
Last night, the Democratic debate in Atlanta took place. Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, argued that his policy of "Medicare for all who want it" is a better alternative than the Medicare For All plans proposed by Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont. This Health Affairs journal article from 2018 describes and assesses the Democratic candidates’ range of
proposals to expand health care access.
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