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Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

Bill of Health

Incarcerated individuals need health care, but punitive policies make securing access to care particularly difficult among this population, which numbers about 2.1 million as of 2021. In this context, policy efforts like the Humane Correctional Health Care Act (H.R.3514) Legislation like H.R.

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Addressing Ghost Networks in Mental Health Care

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Considering these substantial consequences for patients’ access to mental health care, developing solutions to prevent ghost networks is critical. Insurers should also work to decrease the shortage of mental health care providers in their networks.

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

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As digital health industry stakeholders will be convening at the 2021 annual HIMSS conference in Las Vegas and digitally, this report is well-timed to give us a level-set on just “where” U.S. health citizens are with respect to their medical information. .” To build healthcare back better in the U.S.,

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Chronic Medical Conditions, Mental Health, and Equity On Employers’ Minds for 2022 – Employee Health in the Wake of COVID-19

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Nearly all large companies are also worried about the long-term mental health impacts of the public health crisis. The pandemic’s sharp reveal of health inequities and income inequality accelerated this trend. Figure 3 arrays various social determinants targets undertaken by large employers in the study.

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And the Oscar Goes To….Power to the Patients!

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to paint the movement on outdoor walls to promote health citizenship and the importance of health care access and affordability for all people in America. Power to the Patients is motivating muralists around the U.S. You can follow #PowerToThePatients on Instagram and @PowertoPatnts on Twitter.

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Happy 75th Birthday, NHS – Through A U.S. Health Care Lens

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Figure 6 from the King’s Fund report arrays health spending per capita data points from the OECD’s 2021 national survey, finding the UK (the red dot on the graph) to the left of the red average line on the x-axis for per capita spending and just north of the average line of spending as a share of GDP on the y-axis.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

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In the 19th and 20th centuries, segregated black hospitals were emblematic of separate but unequal health care,” begins the editorial introducing an entire issue of JAMA dedicated to racial and ethnic disparities and inequities in medicine and health care, published August 17, 2021.

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