Bill of Health

APRIL 3, 2023

To make sense of these developments, leading experts in health law policy analyze Judge O’Connor’s ruling below. Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is first and foremost an effective health measure to prevent HIV infection and potentially eradicate the virus that has taken the lives of 700,000 Americans. Doron Dorfman Braidwood v.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

The top row illustrates that the ACA covered a lot of people with health insurances between 2012 and 2016. “Insurance coverage is a necessary but not sufficient condition” to improve health outcomes in America, the Fund asserts in its report summary.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

For context, since 2012, the annual cost increase for family premiums ranged between 3% and 5%, so the 2020 rate of 4% fell within a fairly normal range of 3-5% seen over the past eight years. Job losses in the public health crisis have resulted in millions of American workers and families losing health benefits.

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Health Insurance COVID-19 Telemedicine Public Health 173

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In my 11 years of writing every one of over 2,000 Health Populi posts on this blog, I have never, ever mentioned the “f-word” here. In this case, I feel it’s important to capture the Zeitgeist of the Republican Party’s commitment to cutting down the ACA since President Trump took office in January 2017.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2018

At the same time, Colombia resolved a 50-year civil war-type conflict, La Violencia, in 2016, leaving the nation scarred physically and mentally to deal with post-traumatic stress and a public health crisis for mental health.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 12, 2023

In the meantime, though, my colleagues over the firewall at KFF report that some 5 million more uninsured Americans are actually eligible for free health care coverage under the ACA. They can take some dollars out of Medicaid, you know, the largest expansion of which is part of ACA.

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