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

Healthcare Law Blog

BACKGROUND The Proposed Rule is the latest in a long line of federal legislation and rulemakings governing the conscience rights of healthcare providers and entities. The Church Amendments In the 1970s, the federal government enacted the Church Amendments, 42 U.S.C.

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South Dakota Voters to Decide Medicaid Expansion

Kaiser Health News

Kristi Noem, a Republican, strongly opposes Medicaid expansion, even though the federal government picks up most of the cost. Most states accepted the Medicaid expansion quickly after the ACA was implemented in 2014. South Dakota Gov. KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues.

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Tweets at Lunch with Paul Krugman – Health IT Meets Economics

Health Populi

I greatly appreciated the opportunity today to attend a luncheon at the HX360 meeting which convened as part of the 2018 HIMSS Conference. There’s an old saw that the US government is an insurance company with an army” quips @PaulKrugman @HIMSS #HIMSS18 #HX360 #Healthinsurance #Medicare #Healthcare #Healthcosts.

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Health Care Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five Stars

Kaiser Health News

The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications. Other hospitals declined to comment or did not respond to emails.

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Trump’s Administration Plans to Fix U.S. Healthcare System through Choice and Competition

Health Law Gurus

The report issued on December 3, 2018, aligns with the position on healthcare reform the Trump administration has taken and announced since Trump’s election. This healthcare manifesto is a blueprint to reform the delivery of care and consumer choice by relaxing state and federal laws.

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Only in America: The Loss of Health Insurance as a Toxic Financial Side Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health Populi

In fact, the number of uninsured Americans rose by 2 million people in 2018 , and by 1.9 Furthermore, some people in racial minority groups distrust the government and health care systems responsible for inequities in treatment, a sad legacy of the systemic racism in U.S. million people in 2017.

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Universal Health Care and Financial Inclusion – Not Mutually Exclusive

Health Populi

Universal health care was covered in a section on 28 April 2018, and coverage on financial inclusion was bundled into the 5th May edition. Two weeks in a row, The Economist , the news magazine headquartered in London, included two special reports stapled into the middle of the magazines.