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The Future of Health Care Reform is Top of Governor Hochul’s State of the State Address

Health Care Law Brief

The address featured a number of health care reform initiatives—a strong indication that New York will prioritize health care issues and spending in the year ahead. Below is a summary of Governor Hochul’s big-ticket health care agenda items. The full State of the State book can be found here.

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The AMA Can Help Fix the Health Care Shortages it Helped Create

Bill of Health

But unsurprisingly, both physicians and nurse practitioners (NPs) are more likely to be found in geographic locations with more people, although NPs do represent a larger share of the primary care workforce in rural areas.

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Struggles Over Care Will Shape the Future of Work

Bill of Health

The future of work and of aging will be shaped by struggles over care from both giving and receiving ends, perhaps against those profiting in between. spread between nursing homes. These facilities, like most nursing homes, are for-profit businesses that pad their margins by cutting labor costs.

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‘Below the Belt’ Exposes the Silent Crisis of Endometriosis Care

Bill of Health

In the film , Jenneh, a Black nurse, starts bringing her boyfriend, a white software engineer, to her gynecologist appointments because the doctor is more responsive with him present. Additionally, many patients who finally get the proper diagnosis find endometriosis care unaffordable.

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

Bill of Health

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. We also recognize that policymakers, specifically the U.S.

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Caring for Patients with Serious Illness: Insights from Kristofer Smith

Bill of Health

This wonderful and fiercely independent person who never wanted to live in a facility, spent the last year of life in a nursing home. Ultimately, the demands of my great grandmother, as her illnesses progressed, became so much that we couldn’t keep her at home.

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Telehealth Visits Can Improve Revenue, But They’re No Cornucopia

Healthcare IT Today

For several decades, health care reformers have been advocating “fee for value” or value-based care, which supposedly rewards long-term results instead of individual encounters. So we have a lot of people with either serious disease of costly health conditions eventually leading to disease. If the U.S.