Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2022

Gamble (1976), affirmed that incarcerated individuals have the constitutional right to health care. Incarcerated individuals need health care more than ever in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disproportionately affected those within correctional facilities. 3514) are particularly critical.

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Medicaid Medicaid COVID-19 Public Health 293

Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

For instance, in 2019, the AMA urged Congress to remove the very caps on Medicare-funded residency slots it helped create. Indeed, in 2020 and 2021, the AMA touted more advocacy efforts related to scope of practice that it did for any other issue — including COVID-19. But the AMA has held out in one important respect.

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Kaiser Health News

MAY 5, 2022

From 2019 to 2021, fentanyl overdose deaths more than tripled among teenagers — and surged fivefold among Black teens , according to an analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data produced by the advocacy group Families Against Fentanyl. .”

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Public Health COVID-19 Health Care Reform 97

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But to focus on these failures risks forgetting the collective framing and collective policy response that dominated the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic. This dangerously obscures what went wrong and limits our political imagination for the future of the COVID-19 pandemic and other emerging crises.

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