Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Though crisis standards of care are meant to provide an ethics-based approach to the complex process of allocating scarce health care resources, in reality, they fall short. Even the best laid plans cannot guarantee an equitable division of health care resources.

COVID-19 334

COVID-19 Health Care Access Nurses Health Care Reform 334

Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2022

Currently, overburdened county and local jails provide inadequate care for incarcerated individuals with high rates of comorbidities, mental health issues, and COVID-19. Repealing the MIEP can significantly improve health care access for incarcerated individuals.

Medicaid 299

Medicaid Medicaid COVID-19 Public Health 299

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The ACA and temporary pandemic-era policies such as the Families First Coronavirus Response Act of 2020 , which allowed continuous Medicaid enrollment during the public health emergency (PHE), has helped to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health care coverage – and proved to be important during COVID-19 to increase health care access.

COVID-19 162

COVID-19 Public Health ACA Health Insurance 162

Bill of Health

JANUARY 12, 2024

The legal opportunities highlighted above address federal and state harm reduction policy misalignments by seeking to establish a true harm reduction system through more consistent health care access for people who use drugs , better coordina tion of federal and state funds dedicated to harm reduction, and re ductions in barriers to the operation of (..)

Governance 182

Governance Public Health Federal Policy Health Care Access 182

Bill of Health

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Insurers should also work to decrease the shortage of mental health care providers in their networks. Ghost entries would be less problematic for mental health care access if there were a sufficient group of actual providers who could accept patients.

Governance 147

Governance Medicaid Medicaid Medicare 147

Jane Sarashon

MARCH 15, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: John Mackey has held this view on food for a long time. ” 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.

Health Care Reform 52

Health Care Reform COVID-19 Health Outcomes Governance 52

Hall Render

MAY 10, 2024

Health Policy Commission still missing key document in Steward sale to Optum Local obesity drug developer lands deal worth up to $600M with Novo Nordisk Mass.

Nursing Homes 40

Nursing Homes Nurses Hospitals Medicaid 40