2020 Vs. 2025: What's Different and the Same in Health Policy - Our 200th Episode!

Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Deputy
Editor Jessica Bylander to the program to
celebrate the 200th episode of Health Affairs This Week and take
a look back at the health care world of 2020 and see what has
changed in terms of COVID-19, vaccinations, telehealth, and more.
 


Health Affairs published an ahead-of-print article this week from
Yashaswini Singh and coauthors exploring explore
how the expansion of private equity-owned physician practices has
led to a decrease in access for certain eye conditions such as
retinal detachment.  
Yasahswini Singh also appeared as a guest on a live
episode of A Health Podyssey discussing private equity's effect
on health care staff turnover.


Health Affairs is hosting an Insider exclusive event on
May 29 focusing on the FDA's first 100 days
under the second Trump administration featuring moderator
Rachel Sachs alongside panelists Richard
Hughes IV and Arti Rai.


Related Links:


The Many Ways Kennedy Is Already Undermining Vaccines (The
New York Times)

Health secretary RFK Jr. endorses the MMR vaccine — stoking
fury among his supporters (NPR)

Measles tracker: Follow cases, outbreaks and vaccination
rates across the U.S. (NBC News)

Fact Sheet: Telehealth (American Hospital Association)