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Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

Bill of Health

In other words, both convicted individuals and those still presumed innocent are stripped of their access to the federal health insurance program for low-income individuals. Gamble (1976), affirmed that incarcerated individuals have the constitutional right to health care. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Estelle v.

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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

Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated the erosion of the health insured population. lacked health insurance.

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Financial Health Is On Americans’ Minds Just Weeks Before the 2020 Elections

Health Populi

Nearly 8 million workers losing jobs also losing their employer-sponsored health insurance, discussed in this research from The Commonwealth Fund. The threat of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act during the public health crisis. The last chapter of HealthConsuming, published in 2019, asked whether U.S.

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Social Determinants of Health – My Early Childhood Education and Recent Learnings, Shared at the HealthXL Global Gathering

Health Populi

.” “This,” being the scenarios illustrated by people – health consumers, patients, caregivers, all hungry for health citizenship, illustrated here by their signs of SDoHs curated in this second slide from my PowerPoint deck.

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Happy 75th Birthday, NHS – Through A U.S. Health Care Lens

Health Populi

Outcomes produced by the NHS for the UK’s health citizen are also less optimal compared with most OECD nations, except for the U.S. which lands dead last in the league table of nations’ mortality rates from avoidable causes in 2019. In the U.S.,

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Calling Out Health Equity on Martin Luther King Day 2019

Health Populi

In 2019, an emerging concern is how the growth in adoption of artificial intelligence and cognitive computing among health care organizations – particularly, insurance plans, providers, and pharma. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking. s, birthday. .

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Thinking About Dr. Martin Luther King and Health Equity in 2024

Health Populi

In 2019, an emerging concern is how the growth in adoption of artificial intelligence and cognitive computing among health care organizations – particularly, insurance plans, providers, and pharma. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking.