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Women's Risk of Health Insurance Loss Due to Divorce

"[E]stimates suggest that roughly 115,000 American women lose private health insurance annually in the months following divorce and that roughly 65,000 of these women become uninsured. The loss of insurance coverage ... is not just a short-term disruption. Women's rates of insurance coverage remain depressed for more than two years after divorce."

Accountable Health Communities: Addressing Social Needs through Medicare and Medicaid

"By some estimates, more than 95% of the trillion dollars spent on health care in the United States each year funds direct medical services, even though 60% of preventable deaths are rooted in modifiable behaviors and exposures that occur in the community.... CMS recently announced a 5-year, $157 million program to test a model called Accountable Health Communities (AHC).... [T]he test will assess whether systematically identifying and addressing health-related social needs can reduce health care costs and utilization among community-dwelling Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries."