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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. urgently needs a rights-based approach to health.

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Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

Bill of Health

The MIEP overburdens county and local jails financially and jeopardizes public health. 2628 would support states and counties in delivering quality health care. Inmates need more health care, with chronic disease rates among inmates being more than double the general public. Legislation like H.R.

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What John Mackey of Whole Foods Said at the 2022 HIMSS Conference – and Why This is Important for the Whole Health Ecosystem

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: John Mackey has held this view on food for a long time. ” Four years later in 2013, promoting his (then) new book Conscious Capitalism, Mackey did an interview with NPR, morphing the word “socialism” to “fascism” when speaking about the Affordable Care Act.

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Addressing Ghost Networks in Mental Health Care

Bill of Health

Insurers should also work to decrease the shortage of mental health care providers in their networks. Ghost entries would be less problematic for mental health care access if there were a sufficient group of actual providers who could accept patients.

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Six Opportunities to Use the Law to Support Harm Reduction

Bill of Health

Far too often, the public health imperative of harm reduction is blocked by federal policy, state laws, and other structural barriers anchored in the “war on drugs” that reduce the effectiveness of harm reduction efforts. Student at Temple University’s Department of Geography.

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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. In their poll of 487 likely 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. Nurses held majority trust across all three political positions for health care reform. In the context of U.S.

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