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Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

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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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Food is Medicine Approaches to Address Diet-Related Health Conditions

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Medically tailored meals have been associated with lower hospital admissions. It will also be essential to develop strategies to minimize barriers, such as health insurance and access to the health care system. Patients can access medically tailored meals through a referral from a medical professional.

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

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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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How Will the “New” Health Economy Fare in a Macro-Economic Downturn?

Health Populi

Some of the decline in service volumes has been for screenings and preventive care, which will result in underdiagnosis of, for example, cancer conditions further downstream — with more acutely, advanced cases requiring more aggressive (and potentially expensive) treatments. health care? Walmart) to do so, as well.

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Systemic Failures Need Systemic Solutions: COVID-19 and Macromedical Regulation

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has been the failure to meet surging demand for inpatient care. Hospital bed shortages, overwhelmed intensive care nurses, and scarcities of needed medical equipment have been embarrassing but constant features of the American health care landscape. By Barak D. Richman and Steven L.

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Great Expectations for Health Care: Patients Look for Consumer Experience and Trust in Salesforce’s Latest Research

Health Populi

health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies.

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HHS Finalizes Health Plan Price Transparency Rule

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On October 29, 2020, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury (“the Departments”) issued a final rule requiring private-sector health insurers and self-insured health plans to disclose treatment prices and cost-sharing information with consumers.