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

The Health Care Blog

According to data collected and aggregated by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Advantage has more than doubled in total enrollment between 2010 and 2021. In 2021 alone, 26 million people were enrolled in Medicare Advantage, which is over 40% of the total Medicare beneficiary population. Health Disparities Created by Advantage.

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Rural America is a Fertile Field for Digital Health

The Health Care Blog

Our rural health care system has suffered badly during the COVID-19 pandemic. It entered the pandemic with severe structural weaknesses, including magnified health disparities and inequities, lower rates of vaccination in the general population, and high risk of rural hospital closures. Tommy Ibrahim.

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HealthyNYC – Extending the Lifespan of New Yorkers

Fund for Public Health NYC

Vasan Launch Ambitious Whole-of-government Campaign To Extend Lifespan Of All New Yorkers “HealthyNYC” Aims to Increase Life Expectancy to 83 Years by 2030, Focuses on Reducing Chronic Disease, Overdose, Maternal Mortality Deaths, and More New Yorkers Have Seen Lifespans Fall at Historic Rates Between 2019 and 2021, Dropping Nearly Two Years to 80.7

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

The Network for Public Health Law

The Network for Public Health Law has announced the launch of the Racial Equity Dataset, an interactive online tool that provides extensive data on enacted laws in the 2021 and 2022 legislative cycles related to furthering or hindering racial equity, across the 50 U.S. The interactive dataset may be explored on the Network’s website.

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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

The ACA’s remarkable safety net framework made it far easier for policy makers to deploy federal funds during this unprecedented emergency. trillion coronavirus relief bill signed by President Biden on March 11, 2021, included provisions that built on the ACA, including more generous premium tax credit subsidies.

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Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress

KFF Health News

“So much of what we see is the long tail of slavery and Jim Crow,” said Andrea Ducas , vice president of health policy at the Center for American Progress, a nonprofit think tank. Recent efforts to address health disparities have run headlong into racist policies still entrenched in health systems.