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How to measure racial and ethnic health care disparities
Efforts to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health care need well-defined estimates. This report offers five recommendations for producing and interpreting estimates of racial and ethnic disparities.

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A new way to estimate Medicaid drug discounts
A new paper published in JAMA Health Forum demonstrates a new method for estimating Medicaid discounts and clarifies trends in net Medicaid and non-Medicaid spending and prices for the top-selling brand-name drugs between 2015 and 2019.

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Mothers’ mental health challenges predated the pandemic
Women and mothers were already facing significant mental health challenges before the pandemic, and those challenges are likely to persist and evolve because of the pandemic's new threats to women’s health and well-being.

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Employer-sponsored coverage stabilized and uninsurance declined in the second year of the pandemic
About 8 million nonelderly adults gained coverage during 2021 and early 2022, primarily because of increases in Medicaid and other public coverage. Despite rising employment, employer-sponsored coverage rates remained flat.

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Customer service experiences and enrollment difficulties vary widely across safety net programs
Applying for federal safety net programs is often confusing, burdensome, and stigmatizing for families in need of immediate assistance to access food, housing, health care, and other essentials.

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Improving public programs’ customer service could better meet enrollees’ needs and help build trust in government
Negative experiences with public programs can affect applicants, and enrollees’ physical and emotional well-being and can contribute to reduced trust in government.

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How policies to expand insurance coverage affect household health care spending
Using the Urban Institute’s Health Insurance Policy Simulation Model, we find new reforms reduce health spending for targeted households, with savings greatest for those spending the most on health care.

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