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Reflections on the United States Health Care System and the Right to Health

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Despite the important enactment in 2010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which increases access to care by expanding Medicaid eligibility and protecting insurance coverage of people with pre-existing health conditions and disabilities, more than 25 million people remain uninsured.

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The End of Public Health? It’s Not Dead Yet

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OSHA , which limited federal authority to regulate worker safety with COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Under the ACA, for instance, the health insurance exchanges must be implemented by HHS if states do not create them. The Court did so by building on decisions like National Federation of Independent Business v.

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What Will Expiration of the Public Health Emergency and National Emergency Mean for Employers? 

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Importantly, when the NE ends, the HHS projects that an estimated 15 million individuals will lose Medicaid or CHIP coverage and will be entitled to a special enrollment period to enroll in an employer-sponsored group health plan. With the expiration of the PHE, these requirements will also end.

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Health Provider News

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

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Health Provider News

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finds new C-suite exec at a subsidiary MONTANA COVID Map Shows Five States With ‘Substantial Increase’ in Hospital Admissions St. Here’s why Grady Health System recognized as health care I.T. Million Health Care Fraud Conspiracy in Idaho Orthopedic activity in the 5 most underserved states St.

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Health Provider News

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James Hospital president NEBRASKA Hospital Medicaid funding bill passes on final reading How Nebraska Medicine used AI to reduce first-year nurse turnover by nearly 50% State auditor exposes questionable handling by DHHS of tens of millions of federal dollars Bill passed to bring in more than $1.4 after cyberattack CHI St. Here’s how S.C.

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Health Provider News – July 1, 2022

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Arizona Medicaid Director Points to Success of Supportive Housing. Balderas Joins $230M Settlement Against Pharmaceutical Company Over Allegations Of Medicaid Fraud. CMS approves first-ever public option plan for Colorado’s ACA exchange. COVID hospitalizations on the rise in Mississippi. for COVID-19 response.