Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2019

Co-pay accumulators are being discussed across health plan types, including government-sponsored plans like Medicare along with commercial health insurance programs. Federal government Blueprint for reducing prescription drug costs. Across party identification, U.S. Much now depends on the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The study also addressed the politics of health care leading up to the 2020 Presidential election. While a “single payer health care system” was favored by 41% in terms of a candidate’s position, 77% of people could not agree on a definition for what “single payer” means in a U.S. health care system model.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 30, 2022

For example: Had the health insurance industry been allowed to continue operating as it did prior to HIPAA, tens of millions of Americans would be excluded from health plan benefits. Had the momentum to improve health care not been given a kickstart by HIPAA, subsequent health care initiatives may never have happened.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 20, 2023

. “Hospital system pricing is closely related to this issue, as consolidations drive up already inordinate health care costs.” Far too often health care is unaffordable, billing is not transparent, and patients end up facing enormous financial burdens because they or a loved one is sick, Saini said.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

For these enrollees, increases in fee-for-service hospital care and prescription drugs will push spending upward. In addition, five States are expected to expand Medicaid in the next couple of years, moving more people into these State-specific health insurance plans in Idaho, Maine, Nebraska, Utah and Virginia.

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 6, 2022

For the second time in three years, Espinosa faces the prospect of losing permission to work, which would cost him not only his job providing tech support at a software company, but also his health insurance. Without health insurance, his daughter would lose her eligibility for transplants.

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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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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

We deliberately organized our health law casebook (since our first edition, and now on the brink of our third) to reflect that shift in emphasis toward federal authority, particularly in regulating health insurance markets that traditionally were the domain of state business and consumer protection laws.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 11, 2023

.” Hospitals have long argued they need to charge private insurance plans higher rates to make up for the Medicaid shortfall. Still, the Government Accountability Office, a congressional watchdog agency, argues that community benefit is poorly defined.

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Hall Render

MARCH 11, 2022

California health officials working to address “Long COVID” Pandemic awakens need for at-home hospital care. State health care reform efforts vary, but gaining momentum overall. New rule lets low-income people in Kansas, Missouri keep shopping for health insurance.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Health care will be a key issue driving people to their local polling places, so it’s an opportune moment to take the temperature on U.S. voters’ perspectives on healthcare reform. For this group, it’s more local control and influence that’s valued versus a national assurance of health care.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2019

.” I note that, by the time Americans voted in the 2018 mid-term elections, it was no surprise that lower-income Americans were highly concerned about paying higher premiums, most people earning over $75,000 a year were also very worried about covering the costs of health insurance. health care system , Gallup learned.

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