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.

COVID-19 40

COVID-19 US Department of Health and Human Services Nurses Hospitals 40

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. This whole world is rough, it’s just getting rougher.

ACA 48

ACA Health Insurance Medical Billing Public Health 48

Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A close second in line is affordability of health care, as consumers’ household budgets must make room for paying medical bills — with prescription drug costs also very important as a discussion topic for 2024 Presidential candidates, we learn from the latest KFF Health Tracking Poll published 1 December.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

Arguably, gun policy can cut in two ways: in light of the Stoneman Douglas High School shootings and wake-up call for #NeverAgain among both students and the public-at-large, vis-a-vis Second Amendment issue voters. And, as a growing public health issue, “guns” could also be adjacent to health.

Health Insurance 54

Health Insurance Public Health Medical Billing Medicaid 54

Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2018

One-half of people age 18 to 64 have received a surprise medical bill they thought would be covered by insurance, and one-third say that the ability to pay for care they need is the most pressing issue in American healthcare. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The vast majority of the most seriously ill patients in the U.S.

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Health Insurance Medical Billing Public Health Hospitals 83

Hall Render

JUNE 2, 2023

of Maryland medical school opens addiction research institute in Baltimore MedStar Health breaks even in Q1 as revenues near $2B MASSACHUSETTS Boston Hospital Pays $5.7 to resolve False Claims allegations Q&A with Ken DeFurio, CEO of the new Independence Health System St.

US Department of Health and Human Services 40

US Department of Health and Human Services Nursing Homes Nurses Hospitals 40

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Health care pocketbook issues rank first and second place for Americans in these months leading up to the 2020 Presidential election, according to research from POLITICO and the Harvard Chan School of Public Health published on 19th February 2020. There’s another interesting data point in the detail in the second busy table.

ACA 76

ACA Medical Billing Public Health 76

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.

ACA 52

ACA Health Care Reform Medicare Medicare 52

Kaiser Health News

JUNE 2, 2022

Democrats are also under pressure to move quickly if they want to extend the premium subsidies for plans purchased on the ACA insurance marketplaces. If you have an outrageous medical bill you want to share with us, you can do that here.

COVID-19 64

COVID-19 ACA Medicare Medicare 64

Health Populi

MAY 3, 2019

A Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll published April 24, 2019 found that most Americans health care policy priorities were to lower health care and prescription drug costs, ensure the ACA’s coverage of pre-existing conditions, and protect people from surprise medical bills.

ACA 72

ACA Doctors Health Care Reform Health Insurance 72

Kaiser Health News

JULY 24, 2023

The latest round of rules and legislation comes as the ACA — passed in 2010 — is now cemented in the system. Concerned that people would choose this option instead of more comprehensive and more expensive insurance offered through the ACA, President Barack Obama’s administration set rules limiting the policy terms to three months.

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