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Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

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This policy would be particularly significant in states that have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) , because justice-involved populations largely intersect with those made eligible for Medicaid in expansion states (namely, people who earn less than 138% of the federal poverty level). Legislation like H.R. 3514 and S.2628

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Calling Out Health Equity on Martin Luther King Day 2019

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Rates of hospital admissions for uncontrolled diabetes are higher for Black women than for women in other racial/ethnic groups. The rate of hospital admissions for lower extremity amputations due to uncontrolled diabetes is higher for Black women than White women. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking.

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

Health Populi

Underneath that statistic is a shameful state of health affairs: that people of color and the LGBTQ communities in the U.S. 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.

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Of All Forms of Inequality, Injustice in Health Care is the Most Shocking and Inhumane: Listening to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Health Populi

Rates of hospital admissions for uncontrolled diabetes are higher for Black women than for women in other racial/ethnic groups. The rate of hospital admissions for lower extremity amputations due to uncontrolled diabetes is higher for Black women than White women. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking.

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Calling Out Health Equity on Martin Luther King Day 2020

Health Populi

Rates of hospital admissions for uncontrolled diabetes are higher for Black women than for women in other racial/ethnic groups. The rate of hospital admissions for lower extremity amputations due to uncontrolled diabetes is higher for Black women than White women. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking.

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Preaching Health Equity in the Era of COVID on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Health Populi

Rates of hospital admissions for uncontrolled diabetes are higher for Black women than for women in other racial/ethnic groups. The rate of hospital admissions for lower extremity amputations due to uncontrolled diabetes is higher for Black women than White women. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking.

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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. These conversations are happening throughout the OECD community, country by country.

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