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Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

Bill of Health

The MIEP overburdens county and local jails financially and jeopardizes public health. 2628 would support states and counties in delivering quality health care. Inmates need more health care, with chronic disease rates among inmates being more than double the general public. Legislation like H.R.

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Six Opportunities to Use the Law to Support Harm Reduction

Bill of Health

Far too often, the public health imperative of harm reduction is blocked by federal policy, state laws, and other structural barriers anchored in the “war on drugs” that reduce the effectiveness of harm reduction efforts. Student at Temple University’s Department of Geography.

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

Bill of Health

To design systems and policies that promote the right to health, a holistic and proactive approach is needed, one in which people, institutions, and corporations have a shared responsibility in promoting physical, mental, and social well-being. health care system. urgently needs a rights-based approach to health.

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Addressing Ghost Networks in Mental Health Care

Bill of Health

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.

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What John Mackey of Whole Foods Said at the 2022 HIMSS Conference – and Why This is Important for the Whole Health Ecosystem

Jane Sarashon

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.

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Health Provider News

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Sunny Eappen: Sharing the facts on UVM Health Networks budget actions HCRS appoints Dr. Paul Boutin to Chief Medical Officer In wake of landmark hospital report, Vermont lawmakers look toward health care reforms UVM Medical Center staff take to the streets to rally against recent healthcare cuts VIRGINIA 4 CON updates in 3 states Carilion Clinic makes (..)

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Health Provider News

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public relations firm strikes second acquisition after landing PE investment D.C.’s -area philanthropist opens women’s wellness center in Bethesda D.C.