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Reflections on the United States Health Care System and the Right to Health

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Despite the important enactment in 2010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which increases access to care by expanding Medicaid eligibility and protecting insurance coverage of people with pre-existing health conditions and disabilities, more than 25 million people remain uninsured. First, while the U.S.

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What Will Expiration of the Public Health Emergency and National Emergency Mean for Employers? 

Hall Render

Guidance from the DOL reminds group health plans and health insurance issuers are required to notify in advance their participants, beneficiaries, and/or enrollees of reductions in benefits, which could include changes in coverage of COVID-19 diagnosis and treatment, including testing.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

in 2022, survey finds Senate votes to end COVID-19 national emergency Why are 600+ rural hospitals at risk of closing?

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

Health Care Trends Toward Progress in Hawai‘i Hawaii health system names COO IDAHO Cyberattack forces Idaho hospital to send ambulances elsewhere Idaho Free Clinics rally for Idahoans losing Medicaid Idaho hospitals hit by cyberattack, closed clinic National grant puts $600,000 toward Payette community’s health care needs Idaho Statewide HIE Changes (..)

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Three Reactions to Braidwood v. Becerra

Bill of Health

Elizabeth McCuskey The Braidwood opinions’ Appointments Clause holdings score an initial victory against the ACA’s regulation of commercial insurance — a victory whose effects are amplified by ERISA preemption as deregulation’s silent partner in attacks on the ACA. The scope of the Appointments Clause holding dwarfs the RFRA holding.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

Luke’s discriminated against employees granted religious exemptions to getting COVID-19 vaccine Rothman Orthopaedics’ CEO exits St. Epic EHR Implementation New retention and recruitment programs have shown signs of working for St.

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The End of Public Health? It’s Not Dead Yet

Bill of Health

OSHA , which limited federal authority to regulate worker safety with COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Under the ACA, for instance, the health insurance exchanges must be implemented by HHS if states do not create them. The Court did so by building on decisions like National Federation of Independent Business v.