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For over 40 years, we’ve turned complex health policy research into clear insights that guide decision makers toward effective solutions. We turn complex health policy research into clear insights that guide decision makers toward effective solutions. Our flagship journal, Health Affairs, is the nation’s most read and influential health policy journal. Since its founding in 1981, the journal has published groundbreaking, peer-reviewed research at the intersection of health, health care, and policy. Government and private-sector leaders rely on Health Affairs Publishing’s authoritative content for practical, evidence-based insights to guide critical health policy decisions.

10/13/2026

The trouble with adopting unproven technology is not that clinicians are careless or hospitals greedy. It is that we have built a market in which growth depends on the appearance of progress and comparative evidence arrives last if at all. | Forefront

Eleftherios Makris | Wake Forest University School of Medicine

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10/13/2026

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10/13/2026

As the availability of post-market real-world evidence expands, more attention to its promise, limitations, and oversight in the context of accelerated approval is needed. | Forefront

Peter J. Neumann, et al. | Tufts Medical Center

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10/09/2026

Federal policy makers and state Medicaid agencies can make it easier and provide stronger incentives for dual eligible special needs plans and other partners to coordinate long-term services and supports benefits. | Forefront

Debra Lipson, et al. |

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10/09/2026

Low smoking rates should not become a rationale for retreating from to***co control, particularly when teen smoking rates have plateaued. | Forefront

Linda Richter | Partnership to End Addiction

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10/08/2026

HIPAA, which turned 30 years old in August, merits new attention, particularly because it is and will be the primary statutory vehicle for addressing today’s and tomorrow’s debates on artificial intelligence in medicine and health care affordability. | Forefront

Chris Jennings, et al. | Jennings Policy Strategies Inc.

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10/08/2026

ICYMI: During an Insider event on AI and health care, Paige Nong of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities shared survey data showing that many patients do not expect AI to improve their care and are increasingly skeptical about its use by health systems.

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Using 2012–22 data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, Jordan Herring from Arnold School of Public Health at Sout...
10/08/2026

Using 2012–22 data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, Jordan Herring from Arnold School of Public Health at South Carolina and coauthors examine patterns of health care use among children of Hispanic parents, before and after changes to the federal public charge rule in 2018.

“The 2018 shift in immigration policy may have reduced access to care for US citizen children through chilling effects on their parents," the authors note. 🔗 Link in comment.

Previously negotiated Medicare drug prices have quietly become inputs to new negotiations. Each cycle that inherits a pr...
10/08/2026

Previously negotiated Medicare drug prices have quietly become inputs to new negotiations. Each cycle that inherits a prior price moves the program further from any explicit account of what a drug is worth. | Forefront

Sean D. Sullivan | University of Washington School of Pharmacy

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