Health Care News and Resources – Week of January 16, 2017

AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

• Health Law Sleepers: Six Surprising Health Items That Could Disappear With ACA Repeal, from Kaiser Health News.
• What an Obamacare Repeal Would Mean for Rural Hospitals, from NPR.

CDC

• People in Rural U.S. More Likely to Die From Leading Causes of Death Than Urbanites, from NPR.

OBESITY

• Preventing Childhood Obesity, from H&HN.

POPULATION HEALTH

• At the Heart of Population Health: Data, from H&HN.

VALUE-BASED PAYMENT

• Rural Docs Move Into Value-based Payment, from H&HN.