New @americancancer study led by Robin Yabroff in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians shows a #cancer diagnosis & time for treatment can result in employment disruptions/loss of household income & employment-based insurance, leading to financial hardship. ACS Research ➡️pressroom.cancer.org/releases?item=…

'Even though we served under presidents for different parties, we both recommended that Congress adopt policies advancing site-neutral payments to save patients and taxpayers money.'

- former HHS Secretaries Alex Azar and Kathleen Sebelius

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Excited to share the great work of my friends & colleagues Michael L. Barnett & Matt Press tomorrow with the Senate Finance Committee.

10AM ET Tomorrow - Come check it out!

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Just in: Anthony Wright (@awright2care elsewhere) has been named new executive director of Families USA

Have known Anthony 20+ years, followed his work in California closely

Hard-pressed to think of a more tireless, effective advocate for making sure everybody can get health care familiesusa.org/press-releases…

Pleased to celebrate National Public Health Week & thank the #PublicHealth workforce across the country. #NPHW

See Bipartisan Policy Center report & video on the Future of Public Health here:

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Medical debts crush 14M Americans; Michigan programs aim to ease burden bridgemi.com/michigan-healt… via Bridge Michigan

UM V-BID Center what a great talk by Dr. Mark Fendrick on Value Based Insurance Design. vbidcenter.org #VBID #healthcareinnovation

Every call must end (and almost anything is more tolerable if you know when it will be over, which many of our patients don’t)

Fourteen years ago today, I signed the Affordable Care Act into law.

Afterwards, one Republican member of the House called the ACA the “most dangerous piece of legislation ever passed in Congress.” Another predicted the country would “never recover from it.”

But then something

It's been 14 years since the Affordable Care Act or “Obamacare” became law.

Since then, public views about the #ACA have become more favorable, growing from 46% of U.S. adults holding a favorable opinion in April of 2010 to 59% in February of 2024: bit.ly/3PnwZhp

Excited about this work and our 4/3 briefing on perinatal mental health - please read and join us! healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/he2… Michigan Medicine PWHER U-M IHPI Karen Tabb Dina, PhD Xiaosong Zhang Anca Tilea Ashlee J. Vance vanessa dalton Stephanie Hall, PhD, MPH

Always a good time to talk some trash.

While RA Capital is known for its work in biotech/healthcare, we also invest in hard tech companies working on all kinds of energy and materials problems in a set of sectors we collectively call PLANETARY HEALTH.

Is that climate tech? If

We're honored that we've been named a finalist for the NIHCM Awards in Journalism & Research for our episode, 'Can the U.S. Put an End to Surprise Ambulance Bills?,' in collaboration with STAT.

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#NIHCMAwardsJournalism

Health Care Economics' Michael Chernew was featured in this AJMC article discussing the 2024 Value-Based Insurance Design Summit:
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Yesterday, we brought employers representing more than 6.5 million Americans to the White House to discuss increasing access & use of cancer screenings to improve health outcomes and decrease cost. Catching cancer early is a #BidenCancerMoonshot priority⬇️
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NEW: #Cervicalcancer cases & deaths could drop by as much as 20% if everyone who's eligible for screening & follow-up testing for abnormal results actually received such care, a new paper in The Green Journal's new O&G Open journal by our members finds: ihpi.umich.edu/news/us-could-…

New work by our members Diane Harper of U-M Family Medicine and Mark Fendrick of U-M Department of Internal Medicine UM V-BID Center :

ihpi.umich.edu/news/us-could-…

Don't miss out on discussions from the 2024 V-BID Summit! Watch the recording now to learn about the latest advancements and strategies in value-based insurance design. #VBID #Healthcare 📺🔍vbidcenter.org/2024-vbid-summ…