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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Jane Sarashon

NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 had embedded within the law a Patient’s Bill of Rights.

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Only in America: Medical Debt Hits High Income and Insured People, KHN and NPR Report

Health Populi

When high-deductible health plans became part of health insurance design in America, they were lauded as giving patients “more skin in the game” of health care payments. health citizens. ” The KFF Survey wondered, “Who has health care debt?

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‘Free’ Screening? Know Your Rights to Get No-Cost Care

Kaiser Health News

. “There are still some gaps that need to be filled,” said Katie Keith, a researcher at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University. Your insurance matters. The ACA does set parameters. As the ACA went into effect, trouble spots emerged. There was a lot of drama around colonoscopies.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

The research found that peoples’ exposure to clinician quality information doubled between 2010 and 2015, and more consumers sought quality metrics — albeit, with differences across sub-groups of people (e.g., Taken together, these four papers from Health Affairs lead to the following themes: By 2019, patients in the U.S.

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Everything Old Is New Again? The Latest Round of Health Policy Proposals Reprises Existing Ideas

Kaiser Health News

House Republicans have advanced a package of bills that could reduce health insurance costs for certain businesses and consumers, partly by rolling back some consumer protections. Health policy experts aren’t surprised. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, who worked on the original ACA legislation.

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