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Love ACA Provisions, Not the ACA – KFF Poll Reveals American Voters’ Views on Health Care Reform

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Among Democrats and people leaning Dem, the most popular health reform “form” is to expand coverage further building on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (55%) versus replacing it with a Medicare-For-All plan (39%) for which Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren passionately argued in last night’s debate.

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Failures of Imagination in Public Health Policy

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Failing to use litigation against inadequate public health actions, as did the early civil rights and environmental movements. Failing to anticipate litigation that challenges our efforts, such as with the ACA or the upcoming attempt to “codify Roe v. Failing to demand moral leadership of governmental actors. Absolutely.

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Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

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The Humane Correctional Health Care Act (H.R.3514) When incarcerated individuals receive care, providers are often unfamiliar with their medical history, an obstacle to chronic disease treatment. While hospitals and clinics abide by the Center for Medicaid & Medicare Services guidelines, jails and prisons do not.

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Thinking About Health Care One Year From the 2020 Presidential Election

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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. has the best health care system in the world. Today’s Financial Times features a poll that found two-thirds of U.S.

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Will Health Consumers Morph Into Health Citizens? HealthConsuming Explains, Part 5

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.” I note that, by the time Americans voted in the 2018 mid-term elections, it was no surprise that lower-income Americans were highly concerned about paying higher premiums, most people earning over $75,000 a year were also very worried about covering the costs of health insurance. health care system , Gallup learned.

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The Infertility Shift

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HIPAA and the ACA both responded to concerns about “job lock” – that employer-sponsored insurance restricted job mobility and entrepreneurship. Fertility treatment and the infertility shift only add to this stress. The infertility shift further distorts the already fun-house mirror effects of employer-sponsored insurance on the labor economy.

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The End of Public Health? It’s Not Dead Yet

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Under the ACA, for instance, the health insurance exchanges must be implemented by HHS if states do not create them. United States , which held Congress cannot “dragoon” state executive officials to implement federal laws. Federal statutes enacted after these decisions in the mid-1990s tend to include a federal fallback.