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Failures of Imagination in Public Health Policy

Bill of Health

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.

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Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

Bill of Health

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

Bill of Health

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

Bill of Health

To design systems and policies that promote the right to health, a holistic and proactive approach is needed, one in which people, institutions, and corporations have a shared responsibility in promoting physical, mental, and social well-being. health care system. COVID-19 and the U.S. Applying the Principles in the U.S.

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

Bill of Health

By Nicole Huberfeld Once again, health law has become a vehicle for constitutional change , with courts hollowing federal and state public health authority while also generating new challenges. In administrative law disputes, a critical aspect of public health law, clear statement rules enforce separation of powers.

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The Infertility Shift

Bill of Health

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. Elizabeth Y.

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How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost

Health Populi

One-in-three people were also dealing with a mental health conditions, split roughly between anxiety disorders and depression of some type. A third report is useful to consider with the KFF tracking poll and the Urban Institute/RWJF study on delaying care due to chronic conditions. State Governors to expand Medicaid.

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