Kaiser Health News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Newsom has earned the moniker of “health care governor” by catapulting the issue to the top of his policy priorities. He made California an abortion sanctuary and is dramatically expanding health care benefits. And now Newsom boasts about bringing the state’s uninsured rate to an all-time low of 6.5%

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

When we think through these different worlds and the factors shaping them, we are better prepared to deal with “stuff” that inevitably happens that can shift our world slightly, or blow it apart – like rushing about for PPE when supplies from Asia dried up in the second quarter of 2020. Just sayin’.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Three-quarters of Americans believe that hospitals, clinics and physicians should look beyond patients medical/clinical needs into root causes like access to healthy food, transportation, and safe/clean housing — the social determinants of health. health care system model. .

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Hall Render

JANUARY 21, 2022

UC San Diego Health pays $2.98M settlement over claims of unnecessary genetic testing. UCSF Health names new CEO. Newsom backs away from single-payer health care pledge. ‘The pandemic we were afraid of in 2020’: Some patients dying because Massachusetts hospitals at capacity.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

But that NHS-love-equity has eroded since the start of the pandemic: there has been a precipitous fall in public dissatisfaction with the NHS riding from 25% in 2020 to 41% in 2021. The NHS has an opportunity to renew a vision the public holds — or has held dear — this King’s Fund blog explains.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

Calls for universal health care, some under the banner of Medicare for All,” are growing among some policy makers and presidential candidates looking to run in 2020. asked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to develop a report outlining definitions and concepts for a single-payer health care system in the U.S.

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