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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Jane Sarashon

In addition to highlighting the Patient’s Bill of Rights, NABIP’s keynotes and general sessions will speak to similar topics being brainstormed at VIVE this week — including mental health, maternal health, pharmacy and prescription drugs (pricing, PBMs), population health, and Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

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Come Together – A Health Policy Prescription from the Bipartisan Policy Center

Health Populi

Improving Medicaid. modernizing the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute, modifying Medicare Part D drug benefits to cap out-of-pocket spending, and other items), and to improve Medicaid. With the goal of “fixing the current system,” BPC’s recommendations focus on: Lowering consumer health care costs. patients? .”

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The Coronavirus Pandemic Turbocharged Digital Health Investment in 2020

Health Populi

political/election outcomes that could result in a significantly different payor mix: the major aspect of which will be whether Medicaid will grow as part of a bolstered ACA under a Biden administration, or whether a repealed ACA would diminish the role of Medicaid and underpin a bigger self-pay market.

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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 addition, people living in states that failed to expand Medicaid as part of the Affordable Care Act provisions were also at greater risk of inadequate coverage. In 2003, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published the book, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Onward, health citizens.

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Failures of Imagination in Public Health Policy

Bill of Health

Failing to anticipate litigation that challenges our efforts, such as with the ACA or the upcoming attempt to “codify Roe v. That is why the ACA’s Medicaid expansion doesn’t exist in 11 states , why the penalties for failing to have insurance under the “individual mandate” has been set to $0.00.

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Wasted: $1 of Every $4 Spent on Health Care In America

Health Populi

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) forecasts that prescription drug spending will be the fastest-growing cause of rising health spending by 2027. That’s the Holy Grail and vision in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. Political debates in this 2020 U.S.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

in 2022, survey finds Senate votes to end COVID-19 national emergency Why are 600+ rural hospitals at risk of closing?