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While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

Health Populi

The study also addressed the politics of health care leading up to the 2020 Presidential election. While a “single payer health care system” was favored by 41% in terms of a candidate’s position, 77% of people could not agree on a definition for what “single payer” means in a U.S. health care system model.

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Federalizing Public Health

Bill of Health

That approach successfully transformed public and private health care — albeit not without challenges for coordination and political resistance — through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. This was accomplished by the U.S.

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As Nonprofit Hospitals Reap Big Tax Breaks, States Scrutinize Their Required Charity Spending

Kaiser Health News

.” Hospitals have long argued they need to charge private insurance plans higher rates to make up for the Medicaid shortfall. “You can’t focus entirely on charity care” as a measure of community benefit. The 2010 Affordable Care Act, she noted, imposed additional community benefit mandates.