Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

Disparities in Americans’ health vary among people living in each of the 50 states. These differences in health status generally fall into two regions: north and south, found in the Commonwealth Fund’s 2018 Scorecard on State Health System Performance.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2018

Thus we public health folk say that a person’s ZIP code can be more important than her genetic code. Protecting pre-existing conditions in health insurance outranks lowering the price of prescription drugs and repealing the ACA, voters say.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2018

I covered the launch of the 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer across all industries here in Health Populi in January 2018 , when this year’s annual report was presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos as it is each year. health ecosystem stakeholders. In the U.S., That’s because the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. In fact, the number of uninsured Americans rose by 2 million people in 2018 , and by 1.9 Race matters for health insurance in America.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2018

People with diabetes come in all political stripes, and have strong health advocates on the ground both organizationally (say, the American Diabetes Association and various clinician specialty and primary care groups) and patient activists. The post The True Costs of Diabetes Go Well Beyond the Wallet appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

2018 midterm elections. That is sound advice as we all head to the polls today, 6th November 2018…because every vote counts. Think unity, think community, think health. The post Vote As If Your Health Depended Upon It; Learning from Governor Kasich on Voting Day 2018 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

The provisions also prohibit entities that receive federal funds from denying admission or discriminating against any applicant for training or study based on their reluctance or willingness to counsel, recommend, perform, or assist in certain health services or research activities because of their religious beliefs or moral convictions.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In my 11 years of writing every one of over 2,000 Health Populi posts on this blog, I have never, ever mentioned the “f-word” here. In this case, I feel it’s important to capture the Zeitgeist of the Republican Party’s commitment to cutting down the ACA since President Trump took office in January 2017.

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2019

Health insurance was on the collective minds of American voters in the 2018 midterm elections. Health care, broadly defined, drove many people to the polls voting with feet and ballots to protect their access to a health plan covering a pre-existing condition or to protest the cost of expensive prescription drugs.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2019

” I note that, by the time Americans voted in the 2018 mid-term elections, it was no surprise that lower-income Americans were highly concerned about paying higher premiums, most people earning over $75,000 a year were also very worried about covering the costs of health insurance. .” health care system , Gallup learned.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2020

The third pillar of CDC-recommended COVID-19 workflows for assuring public health is the issue of tracking. health care system: millions of people lacked health insurance entering the crisis. The 2018 mid-term elections in the U.S. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed many weaknesses in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2020

voters were driven to the polls in the 2018 mid-term elections due to concerns about health care. The Brookings report noted that, “COVID-19 is hard on women because the U.S. ” This report was aptly titled, “Dear Future President.” ” Millions of U.S.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

House Health workforce shortages, ACA protections, struggling hospitals among early Pa. Public Health Association Second-degree nursing programs are in demand With $87.5M nursing home official admits stealing $528K through kickback scheme Grant program for rural hospitals advances in Pa.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Harris and VP Biden on race, busing, and segregation — which in the larger public health context continue to have a direct impact on health equity, health disparities, and socio-economic status. Finally…Where was the mass call-out for mental health as part of America’s public health?

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 13, 2024

To understand it, we need to break down the protections put in place by the ACA, and those that exist separately. ” People felt trapped in their jobs because they feared they wouldn’t be able to get health insurance anywhere else. .” Some basic preexisting condition protections exist independent of the ACA.

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