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Medicare Advantage Poses Challenges to Health Care Cost-Effectiveness and Equity

The Health Care Blog

Overall, the Medicare Advantage market is dominated by UnitedHealthCare, Humana, and CVS Health/Aetna, with this trio responsible for over half of all Advantage beneficiaries.As of the Advantage market overall in 2020. Health Disparities Created by Advantage.

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Proposing a new indicator to assess health disparities: measuring inequalities in causes of death

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

Despite this limitation, cause of death heterogeneity indicators can inform effective health policies and the promotion of social and preventive medicine, especially if used in conjunction with other population health indicators, such as life expectancy and lifespan inequality. Int J Epidemiol 2024; 14 February.

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HealthyNYC – Extending the Lifespan of New Yorkers

Fund for Public Health NYC

Ashwin Vasan, NYC Health Commissioner and FPHNYC Board Chair The “HealthyNYC” plan aims to address the life years lost during the COVID-19 pandemic to the virus and other causes and surpass life expectancy from what it was pre-pandemic. Between 2019 and 2020, overall life expectancy across demographics fell to 78 years. Cunningham.

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Promoting and protecting the public’s health: recommendations for a new Administration and Congress, 2025

Big Cities Health Coalition

A resilient, well-funded, and equitable public health infrastructure is essential to addressing health disparities and improving overall health outcomes for urban populations nationwide. To do its work well, the public health workforce should be protected from undue partisan political influence.

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Why Kaiser bet on Cone Health for its N.C. expansion

NC Health News

Cone objected to state officials, saying it would bring higher health care costs, add no medical services not already available close by and would not serve people living in areas needing more health care options. Cone lost that fight.) Not that the system hasnt considered growth. Does the patient end up healthier?

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The Network for Public Health Law Introduces Dataset of Enacted Legislation, Highlighting Key Trends in Racial Equity 

The Network for Public Health Law

Understanding the landscape of enacted laws is critical for those working to address health disparities and promote racial equity within their communities. The term and language defining “divisive concepts” stems from a Presidential Executive Order issued on September 22, 2020.

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Celebrating the 12th Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act in a Pandemic: Where Would We Be Without It?

The Health Care Blog

Its predecessor, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) of 2020 enhanced Medicaid funding and required states to provide continuous Medicaid coverage. Additional benefits from these measures included reducing health disparities , ensuring mental health coverage, and helping new moms with more robust coverage.