Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The key issues for health care voters were costs (for care and prescription drugs) and access (read: protecting pre-existing conditions and expanding Medicaid). In this pandemic time, we vote not just for health care , with concerns about the potential for an ACA repeal from the bench of the newly-re-formed U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

In addition, people living in states that failed to expand Medicaid as part of the Affordable Care Act provisions were also at greater risk of inadequate coverage. In 2003, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published the book, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Onward, health citizens.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

One-fourth of insured Americans, about 41 million people, were defined as under-insured in late 2016, double the 2003 rate when The Fund began to poll on this question. That’s more per capita spending than for obesity, and nearly equal to Medicaid spending. ” The answer: not well. The post Guns, Jobs, or Health Care?

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