Equity And Human Rights In Freefall: Bad News About A “Good News” Exhibition At CDC | Health Affairs Forefront Given the vast scope and scale of the damage being wrought by the current US administration in the US and around the globe, it might seem trivial to care about something as minor as the premature demise of a temporary exhibition at an Atlanta, Georgia, museum. In this moment, however, as established health systems are being dismantled, the federal workforce is being purposefully demoralized and traumatized, and the fabric of democracy is being torn asunder, the lessons of this exhibition are more important than ever.

Did you know CDC has a museum, & that for decades it's done amazing work communicating about what #publichealth is & why it matters? In this new #HealthAffairsForefront essay, I write about their recent exhibition - & why we should care that it came down nearly 2 months early. tinyurl.com/bdcmafxh

New #HealthAffairsForefront policy piece today on designing (more) effective sugar-sweetened beverage taxes. Sofia and I discuss tax avoidance behavior and designing taxes directly targeting the harm-generating ingredient.

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and I wrote in #HealthAffairsForefront that the changes to the #Medicare Part D benefit likely makes the standalone prescription drug #PartD far less competitive

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HHS Proposes To Restrict Marketplace Eligibility, Enrollment, And Affordability In First Major Rule Under Trump Administration (Part 1) | Health Affairs Forefront On March 10, HHS issued a proposed rule that would, if finalized, reverse several Biden-era regulatory changes under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and impose new restrictions.

At #HealthAffairsForefront @jasonlevitis.bsky.social and #KatieKeith look at the CMS proposed #ACA rule

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TLDR: Make it 2019 again.