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Putting The Brakes On Global Road Crash Deaths: One Foundation’s Efforts
As the United Nations (UN) meets this week to formally adopt the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it will set the stage for dealing with a worldwide scourge—road crashes and the growing rates of traffic deaths and injuries. Road crashes kill...
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Wed, Sep 30 2015 3:06 PM
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Moving Beyond Price-Per-Dose In The Pharmaceutical Industry
The United States has experienced extraordinary gains in treating cardiovascular disease over the last few decades. Statins, introduced in the 1980’s, are an important part of the story. Hundreds of thousands of deaths, heart attacks, and strokes have...
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Wed, Sep 30 2015 9:36 AM
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Remembering Oliver Sacks, A Pioneer Of Narrative Medicine
Hasn’t he brought us through the decades, guiding us stage by stage toward the present? Hasn’t he opened the way toward a health care loyal to the singular stories of those for whom we care? Hasn’t he opened the way toward a kind of writing loyal...
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Wed, Sep 30 2015 9:28 AM
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Implementing Health Reform: PACE And EACH Acts Pass House; CMS Addresses Consumers Enrolled In Multiple Plans
On September 28, 2015, the House of Representatives approved by voice vote without opposition two bills that would amend the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Given the rancor that surrounds anything related to the ACA in our sharply partisan—and largely...
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Tue, Sep 29 2015 12:20 PM
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rotecting Affordable Coverage for Employees Act
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American Academy of Actuaries
From The Archives: Deductibles And Out-Of-Pocket Costs
Welcome to “From the Archives,” a new Health Affairs Blog series, where we take a timely topic and delve into the literature and history, from a Health Affairs angle, of course. We recently published a Web First with results from a Kaiser Family Foundation...
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Tue, Sep 29 2015 9:47 AM
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The Global Migration Crisis, International Law, And The Responsibility To Protect Health
The world is experiencing the greatest forced migration crisis since World War II — originating in fragile states in the Middle East and Africa and now spilling over to Europe. Nearly 60 million asylum seekers, refugees, and internally displaced...
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Tue, Sep 29 2015 7:26 AM
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Syria
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Not Just A Man’s Problem: The Deadly Cost Of Underestimating Women’s Heart Disease
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the United States, killing nearly 300,000 women a year — that’s one in every four female deaths. While these trends are well-documented by the public health and medical communities, the risk...
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Tue, Sep 29 2015 5:05 AM
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Census Estimates Show Progress Toward ACA Coverage Goals — But There Is More To Be Done
The Census Bureau released a report last week that showed a drop in uninsurance between 2013 and 2014 of 2.8 percentage points — which translates into 8.5 million fewer uninsured people based on information from the American Community Survey (ACS...
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Mon, Sep 28 2015 12:23 PM
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uninsurance
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medicaid expansion states
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The Urban Institute
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Gallup
Health Policy Brief: Navigators And Assisters In The Third Open Enrollment Period
A new policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) looks at the role played by navigators and in-person assisters as the third open enrollment period for the insurance Marketplaces begins. A 2014 Kaiser Family Foundation...
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Mon, Sep 28 2015 8:43 AM
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MACRA: New Opportunities For Medicare Providers Through Innovative Payment Systems
Today, almost 60 million Americans are covered by Medicare — and 10,000 become eligible for Medicare every day. For many years, Medicare was primarily a pure fee-for-service (FFS) payment system that paid health care providers based on the volume...
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Mon, Sep 28 2015 8:32 AM
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Medicaid and CHIP
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Realigning Medicare Part D Incentives: A New Model For Medication Therapy Management
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is announcing a new demonstration model today to test changes to the Medicare Part D program. These changes are designed to better align the standalone...
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Mon, Sep 28 2015 7:12 AM
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California Steps Up To Respond To The Opioid Addiction Epidemic
Saturday, September 26, 2015, marks the tenth annual National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, led by the US Drug Enforcement Administration and participating local law enforcement organizations across the country. While prescription medications play...
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Thu, Sep 24 2015 12:57 PM
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Substance Use Prevention
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California HealthCare Foundation
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Opioid Addiction
The 21st Century Cures Act: More Homework To Do
In July, the US House of Representatives approved the 21st Century Cures Act, which heads to the Senate for a vote this fall. While no one can complain about the Act’s purported goal of “ bring[ing] our health care innovation infrastructure into the 21st...
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Thu, Sep 24 2015 11:12 AM
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Thurgood Marshall
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Fred Upton
MSSP Year Two: Medicare ACOs Show Muted Success
On August 25, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Performance Year Two (PY2) results for the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). (CMS also announced results for the Pioneer ACO demonstration...
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Thu, Sep 24 2015 9:23 AM
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Implementing Health Reform: House v. Burwell, Open Enrollment, And More
On September 21, 2015, the federal government asked Judge Rosemary Collyer of the D.C. federal district court to allow the government to immediately appeal her order of September 9, 2015 refusing to dismiss the House’s complaint in House v. Burwell ....
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Wed, Sep 23 2015 7:34 PM
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