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April 18, 2025
<p><a href="https://www.uhccommunityandstate.com/forms/newsletterregistrationform?cid=CS_B2B|Affiliate_Marketing%20">Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter</a>.</p><br><p>Health Affairs' <strong>Jeff Byers</strong> welcomes <strong>Bob Herman</strong> of <a href="https://www.statnews.com/"><strong>STAT News</strong></a><strong> </strong>to the program to discuss the state of deals in the health care space, how vertical integration and consolidation have played a role in mergers & acquisitions as it relates to hospitals, and what might fly under the radar from even the most savvy of health policy wonks.</p><p>Health Affairs Insiders can <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/he20250318.588983/full/?utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=this+week&utm_campaign=events&utm_content=insider+event">join us <strong>April 23</strong> for an exclusive virtual event exploring <strong>site-neutral payments</strong></a> with health economist and health services researcher <strong>Brady Post</strong> of <strong>Northeastern University</strong> and Health Affairs' <strong>Meg Winchester</strong>.</p><p>Also, we are hosting another <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/he20250411.118361/full/?utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=this+week&utm_campaign=insidermarketing&utm_content=eventspecific">Insider exclusive event on <strong>May 29</strong> focusing on the FDA's first 100 days under the second Trump administration</a> featuring moderator <strong>Rachel Sachs</strong> alongside panelists <strong>Richard Hughes IV </strong>and<strong> Arti Rai</strong>. </p><p><strong>Related Links:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.statnews.com/stat-plus/">Sign up for STAT+</a></li><li><a href="https://www.statnews.com/signup/">Sign up for STAT newsletters including <strong>Bob Herman's</strong> <strong>Health Care Inc.</strong></a></li></ul> <br><p><a href="https://www.uhccommunityandstate.com/forms/newsletterregistrationform?cid=CS_B2B|Affiliate_Marketing">Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter</a>.</p>
April 16, 2025
<p><a href="https://www.uhccommunityandstate.com/forms/newsletterregistrationform?cid=CS_B2B|Affiliate_Marketing%20">Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter</a>.</p><br><p>Welcome to the final episode in a special four-part series from Health Affairs on the intersection of food, nutrition, and health. This special series compliments the release of a theme issue on food, nutrition, and health, which is <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/food-and-health?utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=food+and+health+special+series&utm_campaign=april+2025+issue">currently available to read</a>.</p><p>In this episode, Health Affairs' Jessica Bylander and Ellen Bayer speak with Heather Thomas from the nonprofit A Place to Stand about her Narrative Matters essay from the issue, "<a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2024.01427?utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=food+and+health+special+series&utm_campaign=april+2025+issue">A Different Type of Hunger</a>."</p><p>The <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2024.01427?utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=food+and+health+special+series&utm_campaign=april+2025+issue">essay</a> explores Thomas' experience fighting to access and maintain food benefits in the US as a mother of six whose family is food insecure.</p><p><a href="https://projecthope.dragonforms.com/loading.do?omedasite=ha_scs&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=food+and+health+special+series&utm_campaign=april+2025+issue&utm_content=schanzenbach">Order the Food, Nutrition, and Health Issue</a>.</p> <br><p><a href="https://www.uhccommunityandstate.com/forms/newsletterregistrationform?cid=CS_B2B|Affiliate_Marketing">Subscribe to UnitedHealthcare's Community & State newsletter</a>.</p>
April 14, 2025
<p>In a special podcast episode, Health Affairs Scholar Associate Editor Loren Adler interviews Elizabeth Popp-Berman about the <a href="https://academic.oup.com/healthaffairsscholar/pages/hpacollection">Health and Political Economy</a> series of papers recently published in Health Affairs Scholar.</p><p> </p><p>The series asks how might the U.S. build a more just and inclusive political economy for health rather than take the status quo for granted.</p><p> </p><p>This paper collection was developed in partnership with the The New School’s <a href="https://racepowerpolicy.org/hpep/">Health and Political Economy Project</a> (HPEP), a field catalyst initiative advancing a just and inclusive economy for health, and supported by the <a href="https://www.commonwealthfund.org/?utm_adgroup=Brand_-_Broad&device=c&creative=703814015949&matchtype=b&placement=&adposition=&network=g&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Brand_%7C_New&utm_term=commonwealth%20fund&hsa_acc=1924159231&hsa_cam=21417626620&hsa_grp=167507126281&hsa_ad=703814015949&hsa_src=g&hsa_tgt=kwd-110978631&hsa_kw=commonwealth%20fund&hsa_mt=b&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA74G9BhAEEiwA8kNfpSSU-L0cpCqiTcvZhIkah5ktF3nm7AZ9GQsV9YxZPDPbOnR1jzuQihoCU5YQAvD_BwE">Commonwealth Fund</a>.</p><p><strong>Read the Collection:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://academic.oup.com/healthaffairsscholar/article/2/5/qxae041/7665166">Health and political economy: building a new common sense in the United States</a></li><li><a href="https://academic.oup.com/healthaffairsscholar/article/3/3/qxaf008/8078916">Advancing a political economy approach to health using lessons from US antitrust and climate policy</a></li><li><a href="https://academic.oup.com/healthaffairsscholar/article/3/3/qxaf013/8078943">Reviving public provisioning in US health care</a></li><li><a href="https://academic.oup.com/healthaffairsscholar/article/3/3/qxae170/8078917">The fundamental importance of social insurance for health equity</a></li><li><a href="https://academic.oup.com/healthaffairsscholar/article/3/3/qxae184/8078918">Centering marginalized care: Home care cooperatives and system change</a></li></ul>
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