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Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

Bill of Health

In other words, both convicted individuals and those still presumed innocent are stripped of their access to the federal health insurance program for low-income individuals. Gamble (1976), affirmed that incarcerated individuals have the constitutional right to health care. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Estelle v.

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Food is Medicine Approaches to Address Diet-Related Health Conditions

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Medically tailored meals have been associated with lower hospital admissions. It will also be essential to develop strategies to minimize barriers, such as health insurance and access to the health care system. Patients can access medically tailored meals through a referral from a medical professional.

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Merck Price Negotiation Lawsuit May Face Same Obstacles as 340B Takings Claims

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Covered entities include various federally funded clinics and hospitals that serve low-income patients. Forgoing the federal health-insurance market would impose serious economic hardship. Yet also like the 340B program, there is an element of voluntariness.

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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.

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Systemic Failures Need Systemic Solutions: COVID-19 and Macromedical Regulation

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has been the failure to meet surging demand for inpatient care. Hospital bed shortages, overwhelmed intensive care nurses, and scarcities of needed medical equipment have been embarrassing but constant features of the American health care landscape. By Barak D. Richman and Steven L.

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How Will the “New” Health Economy Fare in a Macro-Economic Downturn?

Health Populi

Some of the decline in service volumes has been for screenings and preventive care, which will result in underdiagnosis of, for example, cancer conditions further downstream — with more acutely, advanced cases requiring more aggressive (and potentially expensive) treatments. health care? Walmart) to do so, as well.

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Large Employers’ Focus on Prescription Drugs: Costs, Coupons and Communication

Health Populi

Examples of these in the current news cycle are Zolgensma, which is priced about $2 million to treat spinal muscular atrophy, and CAR-T therapy which can run as high as $1 million all-in for the treatment and hospital service costs for the patient. Much now depends on the U.S.