Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Add into this picture a CCS Insight analyst’s forecast last week that Apple could enter the health insurance market in 2024. health care system not seen since the 1968 creation of Medicare, coupled with decreased reimbursement due to health care reform. Walmart) to do so, as well.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 5, 2023

By Hannah Rahim Algorithms used in health care have the potential to improve health outcomes but are susceptible to racial bias , which can have detrimental consequences for minority populations. Involvement of state governments State Attorneys General in California and D.C.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 30, 2022

For example: Had the health insurance industry been allowed to continue operating as it did prior to HIPAA, tens of millions of Americans would be excluded from health plan benefits. Had the momentum to improve health care not been given a kickstart by HIPAA, subsequent health care initiatives may never have happened.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

For these enrollees, increases in fee-for-service hospital care and prescription drugs will push spending upward. In addition, five States are expected to expand Medicaid in the next couple of years, moving more people into these State-specific health insurance plans in Idaho, Maine, Nebraska, Utah and Virginia.

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 6, 2022

For the second time in three years, Espinosa faces the prospect of losing permission to work, which would cost him not only his job providing tech support at a software company, but also his health insurance. Without health insurance, his daughter would lose her eligibility for transplants.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 20, 2023

. “Hospital system pricing is closely related to this issue, as consolidations drive up already inordinate health care costs.” Far too often health care is unaffordable, billing is not transparent, and patients end up facing enormous financial burdens because they or a loved one is sick, Saini said.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

household budgets have been particularly hard-hit in paying off credit cards and bills (23%), paying for food (17%), falling behind paying rent or mortgage (16%), affording health insurance coverage (16%), and paying for medical bills (16%). adults had trouble affording any of these basic living expenses. electorate is in favor.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

We deliberately organized our health law casebook (since our first edition, and now on the brink of our third) to reflect that shift in emphasis toward federal authority, particularly in regulating health insurance markets that traditionally were the domain of state business and consumer protection laws.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Medicaid, jointly funded by federal and state governments, is the primary public payer for comprehensive health care and long-term care services in the United States. The ACA expanded Medicaid eligibility, allowing millions of low-income adults to access essential health care services, including millions of seniors.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 11, 2023

.” Hospitals have long argued they need to charge private insurance plans higher rates to make up for the Medicaid shortfall. Still, the Government Accountability Office, a congressional watchdog agency, argues that community benefit is poorly defined.

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Hall Render

MARCH 11, 2022

California health officials working to address “Long COVID” Pandemic awakens need for at-home hospital care. State health care reform efforts vary, but gaining momentum overall. New rule lets low-income people in Kansas, Missouri keep shopping for health insurance.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Health care will be a key issue driving people to their local polling places, so it’s an opportune moment to take the temperature on U.S. voters’ perspectives on healthcare reform. For this group, it’s more local control and influence that’s valued versus a national assurance of health care.

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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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Kaiser Health News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

” She previously spent more than a decade reporting on the federal government, most recently covering surprise medical bills, drug pricing reform, and other health policy debates in Washington and on the campaign trail. Childbirth Still Left Them With Crippling Debt ,” by Aria Bendix.

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