Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

Mothers with incomes up to 138% of the federal poverty level (“FPL”) in states which have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) are eligible to remain covered by Medicaid and those with incomes above 138% FPL may be eligible to qualify for subsidized coverage through the ACA marketplace. 31, 2022). [2] 2] Emily E.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In June 2020, I wrote about the APA’s Stress in America study which focused in on the COVID-19 pandemic and social justice, just days after the death/murder of George Floyd. government response to the coronavirus public health crisis was a significant source of stress to them.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

“Let’s get this thing f-ing done,” Martha McSally passionately asserted on May 4, 2017. In my 11 years of writing every one of over 2,000 Health Populi posts on this blog, I have never, ever mentioned the “f-word” here. Paul Ryan said, on the floor of the U.S. In their poll of 487 likely U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2018

Thus we public health folk say that a person’s ZIP code can be more important than her genetic code. Protecting pre-existing conditions in health insurance outranks lowering the price of prescription drugs and repealing the ACA, voters say.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the report’s discussion, KFF recognizes that this year’s study, the 22nd annual, was fielded in the unprecedented time of the coronavirus pandemic. Job losses in the public health crisis have resulted in millions of American workers and families losing health benefits.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2018

Among these people, healthcare trust fell by 20 percentage points between 2017 and 2018, a “crash” (Edelman’s descriptor) from 75 percent to 55%. Only Colombia had a larger decline in healthcare market trust among a country’s most-informed public. health ecosystem stakeholders. Why the 7-point drop?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. million people in 2017. The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated the erosion of the health insured population. lacked health insurance.

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