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Achieving Economic Security for Disabled People During COVID-19 and Beyond

Bill of Health

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the pervasive inequities experienced by historically marginalized communities, including people with disabilities. Although disabled people have always experienced inequities concerning economic security, these disparities have grown substantially throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

Bill of Health

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. COVID-19 and the U.S.

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Telehealth As A Solution For The Medicaid Population

HIT Consultant

They access the internet at the same rates as other insured populations , and in many ways are more engaged with their smartphones because they are disproportionately dependent on them. The COVID-19 pandemic flipped the role of telehealth delivery from an afterthought to a primary consideration in many cases. population.

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A Rural Georgia Community Reels After Its Hospital Closes

Kaiser Health News

” The Cuthbert hospital was one of 19 rural hospitals in the U.S. That’s the largest number of such facilities to shut down in a single year since 2005, when the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina began tracking the data. that closed in 2020.

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