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

Bill of Health

To design systems and policies that promote the right to health, a holistic and proactive approach is needed, one in which people, institutions, and corporations have a shared responsibility in promoting physical, mental, and social well-being. health care system. impede the right to health and contribute to disparities.

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

Bill of Health

Similarly, our health care system is a significant barrier to employment because most private health insurance companies do not cover critical supports for disabled people, such as personal assistant services. In other words, legal and policy responses must take a Disability Justice approach.

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Access to Reproductive Technology May Be Impeded by Workplace Law and Policy in South Africa

Bill of Health

The National Health Act (2003) and its accompanying regulations apply to fertility care generally, together with the guidelines that apply to reproductive health and fertility specialists. Surrogacy is specifically regulated under the Children’s Act of 2005, which sets out the legal requirements for a valid surrogacy agreement.

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Quality, Safety & Confidentiality

AIHC

PSQIA - the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act PSQIA established a voluntary reporting system with the government’s intent to enhance the data available to assess and resolve patient safety and health care quality issues. sections 299b-21 to 299b-26 ) into law. It also applies to data used in a patient safety evaluation system (PSES).

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A Tale of Two America’s for Health

Health Populi

The top-line of this national health scorecard is that “deaths of despair” are surging, due to suicide, alcohol, opioids, and other drugs whose use has grown by 50% since 2005 to 2016. The social determinants of health — income and good jobs, using tobacco, and having health insurance — bolster good health.

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HHS Issues Proposed Rule to Provide Clarity on Rights of Conscience in Healthcare

Healthcare Law Blog

The provisions also prohibit entities that receive federal funds from denying admission or discriminating against any applicant for training or study based on their reluctance or willingness to counsel, recommend, perform, or assist in certain health services or research activities because of their religious beliefs or moral convictions.

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A Health-Heavy State of the Union

Kaiser Health News

Also this week, Rovner interviews Kate Baicker of the University of Chicago about a new paper providing a possible middle ground in the effort to establish universal health insurance coverage in the U.S. But first, this week’s health news. She’s one of the authors of a new paper outlining a new proposal for the U.S.