Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

By Daniel Swartzman If public health is to prosper, we will need to overcome the after-effects of several failures of imagination. Failing to use litigation against inadequate public health actions, as did the early civil rights and environmental movements. Failing to demand moral leadership of governmental actors.

Public Health 264

Public Health Health Care Reform ACA COVID-19 264

Bill of Health

JUNE 15, 2023

Both Lilly and Novo invoked the unconstitutional conditions doctrine, which they argued prohibited the government from requiring them to relinquish their property without just compensation as a condition of participating in federal health-insurance programs. Both courts pointed to the Supreme Court’s decision in Ruckelhaus v.

Medicare 195

Medicare Medicare Medicaid Medicaid 195

Bill of Health

DECEMBER 6, 2023

By Hannah Rahim Many mental health provider directories for private and public insurance plans contain inaccurate or outdated provider information , which creates a misleading illusion of accessible care. These ghost networks result in many patients being unable to access essential mental health care.

Governance 147

Governance Medicaid Medicaid Medicare 147

Bill of Health

JANUARY 20, 2022

American banks are now governed by a reformed regulatory framework that enables, and sometimes requires, them to cooperate and coordinate appropriate systemic responses. The post Systemic Failures Need Systemic Solutions: COVID-19 and Macromedical Regulation appeared first on Bill of Health. Schwarcz is Stanley A.

COVID-19 130

COVID-19 Hospitals Governance Public Health 130

Jane Sarashon

MARCH 15, 2022

” Four years later in 2013, promoting his (then) new book Conscious Capitalism, Mackey did an interview with NPR, morphing the word “socialism” to “fascism” when speaking about the Affordable Care Act. .” And that’s what’s happening with these reforms.”

Health Care Reform 52

Health Care Reform COVID-19 Health Outcomes Governance 52

Bill of Health

MARCH 3, 2022

The Government is considering possibly wide ranging tort reform. The debate should be careful not to focus primarily on economics and cost containment. However, it is considered important that negligence and wrongdoing are recognised and equally that these experiences are not repeated for others.”.

Malpractice 246

Malpractice Governance Health Care Reform Public Health 246

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Three-quarters of Americans believe that hospitals, clinics and physicians should look beyond patients medical/clinical needs into root causes like access to healthy food, transportation, and safe/clean housing — the social determinants of health. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Americans’ mentions of “government” as a top U.S.

Single Payer Health Care 54

Single Payer Health Care Medical Billing Health Care Reform Governance 54

Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These are shown in the first diagram from the report, breaking out factors that have exacerbated challenges on both the demand and supply side of the American health economy. Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them. In the U.S.,

COVID-19 54

COVID-19 Prescription Drug Pricing Health Insurance Health Care Reform 54

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

For several decades, health care reformers have been advocating “fee for value” or value-based care, which supposedly rewards long-term results instead of individual encounters. Ultimately, the study found small reductions to overall health care costs. ” Remote patient monitoring.

COVID-19 115

COVID-19 Doctors Telemedicine Medicare 115

Bill of Health

MARCH 16, 2022

The commodification of care, its profits dependent on underpaying workers, led to the scarcity of care that my clients, and more baby boomers every day, experience. Care worker organizing for higher wages and better treatment has been on the rise in recent years.

Nursing Homes 130

Nursing Homes Nurses COVID-19 Medicaid 130

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Instead, we should affirmatively consider what brain-forward policies and governance could look like, building on lessons from past pandemics and towards a future of more universal support and structural accommodation of diminishment as well as disability. What would brain-forward health policy look like?

COVID-19 362

COVID-19 ADA Public Health Governance 362

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.

FDA 162

FDA Governance Public Health Hospitals 162

Bill of Health

JANUARY 3, 2023

Some scholars have interpreted this to mean that the federal government has the right under the Commerce Clause to regulate all medical licensure. Gupta cites the Dormant Commerce Clause doctrine, a court-invented principle which allows the federal government to strike down state laws deemed excessively burdensome to interstate trade.

Licensing 130

Licensing Telemedicine Governance Federal Policy 130

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The share of health care spending sponsored/financed by Federal, State and local governments will grow to 2027, reaching 47%. Thus, by 2027, health spending will be roughly split by public and private sector sources of payment.

Medicare 91

Medicare Medicare Medicaid Medicaid 91

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

By Elizabeth Weeks The most promising path forward in public health is to continue recognizing federal authority and responsibility in this space. Historically, public health law primacy resides with states via their core, Tenth Amendment reserved police powers to address residents’ health, safety, and welfare.

Public Health 182

Public Health COVID-19 Medicaid Medicaid 182

Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

One-in-three people were also dealing with a mental health conditions, split roughly between anxiety disorders and depression of some type. A third report is useful to consider with the KFF tracking poll and the Urban Institute/RWJF study on delaying care due to chronic conditions. State Governors to expand Medicaid.

COVID-19 117

COVID-19 Health Insurance ACA Medicaid 117

Kaiser Health News

JULY 11, 2023

The spending typically includes charity care — broadly defined as free or discounted care to eligible patients. But it can also include underpayments from public health plans, as well as the costs of training medical professionals and doing research.

Hospitals 72

Hospitals Medicaid Medicaid Medical Billing 72

Hall Render

MARCH 11, 2022

How Nonprofit Hospitals, Health Systems Compensate Executives. Encompass Health’s home health unit attracts acquisition interest-sources. COVID-19 cases dwindle, but Alabama lawmakers continue push for public health reform. State health officer reflects on progress 2 years into pandemic.

COVID-19 40

COVID-19 US Department of Health and Human Services Nursing Homes Nurses 40

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

conservative movement, convened by the Council for National Policy, organized a campaign to fight against public health measures nearly a year before vaccines or outpatient treatments were available to the general population. During the second year of the pandemic, U.S. life expectancy fell a staggering 6.6

COVID-19 354

COVID-19 Public Health Federal Policy Medicaid 354

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.

ACA 54

ACA Health Care Reform Medicare Medicare 54

Health Populi

MAY 3, 2019

health care system , Gallup learned. Most Americans favored the government ensuring healthcare for all , shown in the chart… but not necessarily running that system. We are at a moment in America which most Democrats, Independents and Republicans recognize as health-insecurity-for-all.

ACA 75

ACA Doctors Health Care Reform Health Insurance 75