Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
By Daniel Swartzman If public health is to prosper, we will need to overcome the after-effects of several failures of imagination. Failing to use litigation against inadequate public health actions, as did the early civil rights and environmental movements. Failing to demand moral leadership of governmental actors.
Jane Sarashon
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
The NIH crafted one for patients enrolled in clinical trials, the American Hospital Association served one up in 1973, and many individual health providers like the University of Pennsylvania Hospital ( aka Penn Medicine) have developed patient bills of rights for consumers entering their hospital systems.
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Health Populi
JANUARY 9, 2020
For overall healthcare reform, the plurality of Americans prefer improving the current system (that is, building on the Affordable Care Act) versus repealing and replacing the ACA or adopting a Medicare for All plan.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 7, 2020
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. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The patient in the U.S.
Health Populi
MARCH 17, 2019
That’s a sad fiscal fact, especially as more Americans gained access to health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, according to a study published this month in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPA). Between 2013 and 2016, about 530,000 bankruptcies were filed among U.S. between 2013 and 2016.
Health Populi
MAY 15, 2018
Light blue to blue is a good thing; the grey area is negative for level of uninsured population and greater self-rationing health care services due to costs. The top row illustrates that the ACA covered a lot of people with health insurances between 2012 and 2016.
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
So only in America in the coronavirus pandemic have millions of people lost their health security just when folks would be most needful of access to health care services: during a public health crisis. Race matters for health insurance in America. Onward, health citizens.
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