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

Bill of Health

Despite the important enactment in 2010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which increases access to care by expanding Medicaid eligibility and protecting insurance coverage of people with pre-existing health conditions and disabilities, more than 25 million people remain uninsured.

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Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

Bill of Health

In other words, both convicted individuals and those still presumed innocent are stripped of their access to the federal health insurance program for low-income individuals. Gamble (1976), affirmed that incarcerated individuals have the constitutional right to health care. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Estelle v.

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Addressing Ghost Networks in Mental Health Care

Bill of Health

Considering these substantial consequences for patients’ access to mental health care, developing solutions to prevent ghost networks is critical. To remedy issues of data quality and integrity, insurers could use algorithms or AI to detect and remove ghost provider entries.

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Healthcare and the F-Word: Health Politics Rank High on November 6, 2018

Health Populi

They fought to erode key elements embedded in the law meant to protect health consumers’ rights: among them, health promotion, disease prevention, and public health; and the assurance that sick people would be covered by health insurance plans without prejudice. The fact is that most U.S.

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Thinking About Health Care One Year From the 2020 Presidential Election

Health Populi

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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