Kaiser Health News

JULY 6, 2022

Since late 2010, when this provision of the ACA took effect, many patients have paid nothing when they undergo routine mammograms, get one of more than a dozen vaccines, receive birth control, or are screened for other conditions, including diabetes, colon cancer, depression, and sexually transmitted diseases. The ACA does set parameters.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Prior to joining OCR, Fontes Rainer served as Counselor to Secretary Becerra and provided strategy guidance on issues pertaining to civil rights, patient privacy, reproductive health, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), competition in healthcare, equity, and the private insurance market. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 19, 2022

PruittHealth CEO: Nursing Home Operators Can’t Break Into Small Markets Without Government Support. Collapse of private equity-backed Missouri hospitals mired employees in medical bills. Eastern New Mexico Medical Center names Adelane Kelly CFO and Kyle Stepp assistant CEO. Georgia hospital to close extended care center.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

face growing challenges to stay open KENTUCKY BehaVR merges with New York City-based Fern Health For years, a powerful Louisville hospital sued people for unpaid bills. face growing challenges to stay open KENTUCKY BehaVR merges with New York City-based Fern Health For years, a powerful Louisville hospital sued people for unpaid bills.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

The authors note that “consumer-driven” health care is, “associated with neoliberal efforts to emphasize market factors in health reform,” de-emphasizing government regulation and financing. This concept can be potentially harmful, they believe, assuming that health care is a traditional market.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

household budgets have been particularly hard-hit in paying off credit cards and bills (23%), paying for food (17%), falling behind paying rent or mortgage (16%), affording health insurance coverage (16%), and paying for medical bills (16%). adults had trouble affording any of these basic living expenses. electorate is in favor.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2018

Protecting pre-existing conditions in health insurance outranks lowering the price of prescription drugs and repealing the ACA, voters say. On a party-identification basis, this sentiment is shared across a majority of Democrats, Independents and Republicans, the third chart illustrates. Cover me, come on baby, cover me.

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Hall Render

MAY 12, 2023

Holcomb signs bill allowing pharmacists to prescribe contraception How 1 Indiana hospital rebuilt after a ransomware attack ‘I just love delivering babies’ | Meet Ascension St. Here’s what it means. Connecticut is weighing several changes to Medicaid. billion state budget.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

isn’t repealing or replacing the Affordable Care Act or moving to a Medicare-for-All government-provided plan. Among all Americans, the most popular approach for improving the health care in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2019

Other issues, like a new Medicare-for-All plan, repealing/replacing the ACA, and protecting people from surprise medical bills were less important to people. percent in 2016 at the moment when President Trump promised to “repeal and replace” the ACA. from a low of 10.9 Of course, this has not happened.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Americans are roughly split — and/or equally confused — about the differences between three major health reform approaches: Medicare -for-All, improving the existing Affordable Care Act, or replacing the ACA with state-run health plans. And many – more than four in ten – find affording basic medical care a hardship.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

This bar chart shows that 50% of working-age adults would not have sufficient funds to pay an unexpected $1,000 medical bill within 30 days. As a final reminder, most Americans are looking for the Federal government to ensure that every U.S. health citizen is covered by health insurance.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2019

Most Americans favored the government ensuring healthcare for all , shown in the chart… but not necessarily running that system. Two-thirds of people also prioritized expanding financial help to include more people who buy insurance on the ACA marketplace.

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