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Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

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Incarcerated individuals need health care, but punitive policies make securing access to care particularly difficult among this population, which numbers about 2.1 As a first step to protecting incarcerated individuals’ right to health, Congress should repeal the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy (MIEP). 3514 and S.2628

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Churntables: A Look at the Record on Medicaid Redetermination Plans

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The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) expires at the end of this week, with Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra expected to renew the PHE once more to extend through mid-July. This policy improves coverage and helps reduce churn , which is associated with poor health outcomes.

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Failures of Imagination in Public Health Policy

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Failing to use litigation against inadequate public health actions, as did the early civil rights and environmental movements. Failing to anticipate litigation that challenges our efforts, such as with the ACA or the upcoming attempt to “codify Roe v. Failing to demand moral leadership of governmental actors. Absolutely.

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

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This pervasive structure for public health and health care laws caused problems before the New Roberts Court, but COVID-19 politics highlighted the degree to which state officials are turning away from partnering and toward what I call the “state veto.” It would also offer some defense against clear statement rules on steroids.

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The Infertility Shift

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No state Medicaid program covers IVF. Working the infertility shift may reduce IVF’s financial risk but increases health risks. HIPAA and the ACA both responded to concerns about “job lock” – that employer-sponsored insurance restricted job mobility and entrepreneurship.

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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 NEW HAMPSHIRE Ambulance service in N.H.

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Love ACA Provisions, Not the ACA – KFF Poll Reveals American Voters’ Views on Health Care Reform

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Among Democrats and people leaning Dem, the most popular health reform “form” is to expand coverage further building on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (55%) versus replacing it with a Medicare-For-All plan (39%) for which Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren passionately argued in last night’s debate.

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