Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

With support from the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE), public health law experts from Indiana University McKinney School of Law and the Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research at the Beasley School of Law recently embarked on a systematic review of U.S.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 15, 2023

Merck alleges that the price negotiation program operates as a price control because it effectively requires manufacturers to accept the maximum fair price as a condition of participation in Medicare and Medicaid. For example, under the Fifth Amendment, a taking only occurs where the government fails to provide “just compensation.”

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Kaiser Health News

MARCH 3, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said in an interview about the overhaul Biden promised during his State of the Union address. “Medicare is going to set higher standards for nursing homes and make sure your loved ones get the care they deserve and that they expect,” Biden said. .” ” In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

National health spending in the U.S. every year from 2020 to 2027, the actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services forecast in their report, National Health Expenditure Projections, 2018-2927: Economic And Demographic Trends Drive Spending And Enrollment Growth , published yesterday by Health Affairs.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 30, 2022

3103 ) were integrated into it, that the Kassebaum-Kennedy Act bore any resemblance to the final version of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. However, when HIPAA was passed, the standards governing health care data, patients´ rights, and the flow of information were still several years away.

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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.” The Narsh family had Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurance at the time of Mason’s hospitalizations. “This is bad public policy.

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 6, 2022

It’s a category in which the government says it will defer trying to deport someone so they can deal with a severe illness. “Deferred action is not a visa, it’s just a decision from the government not to deport.” People who have action deferred can also apply for a work permit.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 3, 2023

Some scholars have interpreted this to mean that the federal government has the right under the Commerce Clause to regulate all medical licensure. Gupta cites the Dormant Commerce Clause doctrine, a court-invented principle which allows the federal government to strike down state laws deemed excessively burdensome to interstate trade.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

That approach successfully transformed public and private health care — albeit not without challenges for coordination and political resistance — through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. This was accomplished by the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

voters support efforts to expand government subsidies for people to buy health insurance as well as for U.S. State Governors to expand Medicaid. See in this last bar chart that one-half of Republicans supports both financial help for people buying into health plans as well as Medicaid expansion to cover more low-income adults.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 11, 2023

But it can also include underpayments from public health plans, as well as the costs of training medical professionals and doing research. Hospitals also claim as community benefits the difference between what it costs to provide a service and what Medicaid pays them, known as the Medicaid shortfall.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In March 2020 , Congress expanded unemployment benefits at unprecedented levels, subsidized businesses, guaranteed paid sick leave for many workers, and broadened Medicaid eligibility. The main motivation behind this campaign was to ensure that the capitalist class would not incur the cost of the pandemic via government intervention.

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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. Trinity Health says it will reach gender parity in leadership roles by 2030. Ribbon cut on new east Topeka urgent 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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