Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2020

In Brand Trust and the Coronavirus Pandemic , Edelman focuses its trust lens on the pandemic and consumers’ shaken confidence in business and government institutions. These findings have special implications for health and health care. As Americans confront the clinical and fiscal realities of the coronavirus in the U.S.,

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The Digital Health Corner

JANUARY 19, 2017

After a hiatus I am returning to my beloved Digital Health Corner. In a previous post I discussed important public health issues that digital technology can address. The classification of substance abuse as a chronic condition by the ACA has implications with regards to digital health.

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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. Just weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, cracks in the U.S.

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MedTrainer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In the United States, there are several compliance frameworks and entities that govern requirements for the healthcare industry. Each governing body oversees a different aspect of regulatory compliance. To understand which compliance frameworks govern which requirements, we need to break it down entity by entity.

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

As the COVID-19 pandemic took its toll, the year 2020 ushered in declarations of a National Emergency (“NE”) and a Public Health Emergency (“PHE”). The HFWA also requires employers to provide up to 80 hours of paid supplemental sick leave when a PHE is declared by either the state or federal government. In addition, H.J.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Within both eras, such actions have fueled stigma, propagated misinformation, and encouraged scapegoating in the middle of public health crises. . Diagnostic discrimination resulting from a company policy would likely violate Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

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Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

Mothers with incomes up to 138% of the federal poverty level (“FPL”) in states which have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) are eligible to remain covered by Medicaid and those with incomes above 138% FPL may be eligible to qualify for subsidized coverage through the ACA marketplace.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 19, 2022

CDC, amid criticism for COVID-19 response, plans reorganization as public health threats grow. ChristianaCare backs out of deal to buy Crozer Health from Prospect Medical Holdings. Delaware public health officials focus efforts on Monkeypox. Two Georgia health systems to receive $300M in federal funds.

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Hall Render

MARCH 31, 2023

County-owned buildings facing potential earthquake risk Gilead drops option to buy cancer therapeutics company Health and Life Organization Inc. in 2022, survey finds Senate votes to end COVID-19 national emergency Why are 600+ rural hospitals at risk of closing? buys industrial property in Rancho Cordova for $5.12

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Louis-based health system to form Michigan joint venture Mercy opens ‘high-tech’ multispecialty center, ASC in St. for scholarships Yale New Haven investment leader departs DC D.C.’s finds new C-suite exec at a subsidiary MONTANA COVID Map Shows Five States With ‘Substantial Increase’ in Hospital Admissions St.

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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. renovation St.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 27, 2023

to revisit whether to set limits for numbers of patients assigned to a nurse Tufts spent $70M on EHR install Wait times for long-term psychiatric care span months for some patients Health care leaders applaud appointment of Kate Walsh as Massachusetts health secretary As ER waits stretch for days, Mass.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 27, 2022

Separately, lawmakers are looking to remake the federal public health apparatus to better prepare for the next pandemic. This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KHN, Joanne Kenen of Politico and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Anna Edney of Bloomberg News.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

One-in-three people were also dealing with a mental health conditions, split roughly between anxiety disorders and depression of some type. voters support efforts to expand government subsidies for people to buy health insurance as well as for U.S. Interesting, even in this very partisan moment in the U.S.,

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

HHS falling short in handling public health crises, GAO says. Florida’s ACA enrollment is tops nationally, but Medicaid expansion questions remain. 91M Veteran Mental Health Clinic Slated For Florida. Georgia nurse practitioner convicted of health care fraud in complex telemedicine fraud scheme.

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2019

Because the United States is not urging that any portion of the district court’s judgment be reversed, the government intends to file a brief on the appellees’ schedule.” About 2 million young people would also lose coverage, now health-insured under their parents’ health plans. ” Texas v.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Having the Federal government paying for testing, tracking, and treatment for COVID-19. In fact, most women demand a stricter approach to managing the coronavirus to “crush” the pandemic. Some of the most popularly-endorsed strategies most women favored included: Paying wage subsidies to people out of work due to COVID-19 (78%).

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Hall Render

MAY 12, 2023

Cloud Hospital names Chief Quality Officer Tampa’s Lions Eye Institute adopts new name Troubled Cano Health records $60.6M Here’s what it means. Connecticut is weighing several changes to Medicaid.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2018

Thus we public health folk say that a person’s ZIP code can be more important than her genetic code. Protecting pre-existing conditions in health insurance outranks lowering the price of prescription drugs and repealing the ACA, voters say.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In June 2020, I wrote about the APA’s Stress in America study which focused in on the COVID-19 pandemic and social justice, just days after the death/murder of George Floyd. government response to the coronavirus public health crisis was a significant source of stress to them.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2023

public does not want politicians to “up-end” government-funded health programs, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s March 2023 Health Tracking Poll. Suddenly, the role of Federal and State governments takes on a very personal role — and value. A majority of the U.S.

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Kaiser Health News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

For the first time, Medicare Advantage plans are poised to enroll more than half of the Medicare population despite allegations that many of the largest insurers are getting billions of dollars in overpayments from the federal government. Democrats were aware of this problem even as they passed the ACA.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2019

.” Moving from the macro economy, Lester Holt segued the debate into health care, recognizing that “many at home have coverage with employers.” ” He asked the ten debaters to raise their hands to answer the question: “Who would abolish and do a government-run plan?”

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 7, 2022

A $10 billion bipartisan bill negotiated in the Senate failed to advance when Republicans insisted on a vote on a separate public health immigration policy. This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Tami Luhby of CNN, Shefali Luthra of The 19th, and Jessie Hellmann of CQ Roll Call.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2020

The third pillar of CDC-recommended COVID-19 workflows for assuring public health is the issue of tracking. about 27 million people in the country have lost their health insurance due to COVID-19. health care system: millions of people lacked health insurance entering the crisis. Since the pandemic hit the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2020

But most Americans also get the politicized nature of the coronavirus and say they’re less likely to vote for President Trump in November based on his handling of the public health threat, according to a just-released survey from Protect Our Care fielded by Public Policy Polling. Anthony Fauci, who led the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The second poll we’ll consider is the survey from The Harvard Chan School of Public Health published in October 2019 (conducted in July-August 2019) teamed with the Commonwealth Fund and the New York Times. has the best health care system in the world. The split across U.S. voters was 32%, 28% and 29% respectively.

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Kaiser Health News

MARCH 24, 2022

But HuffPost’s Jonathan Cohn points out that key provisions could still face disruption in the coming year, including significant premium subsidies that Democrats added to the ACA in 2021. If that migration continues over the long term, the loss of healthy individuals from the ACA plans could undermine the risk pools for those insurers.

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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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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 12, 2023

Indeed, one of the first orders of business in the new Congress was the re-establishment of a committee on the covid pandemic with a new focus on investigating the origins of the virus and the government’s response to it. But also, for the first time, Medicare, or the federal government is starting to take on drug prices directly.

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Kaiser Health News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Biden’s calls for bipartisanship to extend health programs like pandemic-era subsidies for Affordable Care Act health plans are expected to clash with conservative demands to slash federal government spending. They rebuffed calls from activists to declare a public health emergency for abortion. Baicker: Yes.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Harris and VP Biden on race, busing, and segregation — which in the larger public health context continue to have a direct impact on health equity, health disparities, and socio-economic status. Senator Harris, too, mentioned government benefits like free college and Medicare for All as her health plan preference.

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