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**The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs**

**Tuesday, January 21, 2020**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

ACCESS TO CARE

Vaccine Infrastructure And Education Is The Best Medical Investment Our
Country Can Make

By J. Nadine Gracia and Amy Pisani

We are seeing an increase in preventable infectious disease outbreaks,
gaps in long-standing vaccine practices, and a growth in
sociodemographic disparities in vaccination rates, particularly among
children who live in rural areas or who are uninsured. Solutions will
require a renewed commitment to disease elimination, adequate funding,
and enhanced bipartisan cooperation. Read More >>

FOLLOWING THE ACA

Supreme Court Denies Expedited Review Of Texas

By Katie Keith

Today the Supreme Court denied a request from 21 Democratic attorneys
general and the US House of Representatives to expedite review of Texas
v. United States. Read More >>

HEALTH AFFAIRS BRANDED POST

The Value of Medicare Advantage: Coverage Security, Consumer Choice, and
Lower Costs

By Allyson Y. Schwartz and Griffin Myers
Supported by theBetter Medicare Alliance

Consumer choice and coverage security. These phrases are often bandied
about as partisan buzzwords in the health care reform debates of today,
depicted as mutually exclusive values in service to the political
narrative. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

MEDICARE
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Spending And Quality After Three Years Of Medicare's Voluntary Bundled
Payment For Joint Replacement Surgery

By Amol S. Navathe, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Atheendar S. Venkataramani, Qian
Huang, Atul Gupta, Claire T. Dinh, Eric Z. Shan, Dylan Small, Norma B.
Coe, Erkuan Wang, Xinshuo Ma, Jingsan Zhu, Deborah S. Cousins, and
Joshua M. Liao

Amol Navathe and coauthors report on the results of Medicare's Bundled
Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative after three years. They
find that "participation in [BPCI] was associated with a 1.6 percent
decrease in average lower extremity joint replacement episode spending,
driven by the performance of early participants, with no changes in
quality."
Read More >>

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HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTS-PAST EVENT:  Health Spending

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to promote an evidence-based conversation about health spending. Get
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A CLOSER LOOK-Long-Term Care Workforce

By 2025 the number of seniors is expected to surpass that of children
age 13 and under for the first time in US history, according to Census
Bureau projections. A Health Affairs journal article reports that
long-term services and supports for America's elderly and disabled
people
will
increasingly rely on immigrant labor.

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