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While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

Health Populi

Cost concerns are playing into peoples’ perspectives on health care reform proposals, with a majority of survey respondents saying they’d be more likely to vote for a candidate that would support expanding private health insurance reforms versus scrapping commercial insurance for a Medicare for All proposal.

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Nurses and Aides Are Beloved and Deserve Higher Pay; and a Spotlight on the Filipinx Frontline

Health Populi

The research covered a range of health policy issues, including how health citizens view the Affordable Care Act compared with a single payer health care system or a public option; The study was fielded in June 2021 among 1,071 U.S. Between 7 or 8 U.S. adults, cross-party, lack trust in pharmacists.

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Come Together – A Health Policy Prescription from the Bipartisan Policy Center

Health Populi

Among all Americans, the most popular approach for improving the health care in the U.S. isn’t repealing or replacing the Affordable Care Act or moving to a Medicare-for-All government-provided plan.

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Assessing the GAO’s Report on Single-Payer Healthcare in America: Let’s Re-Imagine Workflow

Health Populi

.), asked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to develop a report outlining definitions and concepts for a single-payer health care system in the U.S. The result of this ask is the report, Key Design Components and Considerations for Establishing a Single-Payer Health Care System, published on 1st May by the CBO.

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Hall Render’s Health Provider News – January 28, 2022

Hall Render

Despite Burnout, These California Health Care Workers Aren’t Quitting. Single-payer health care clears big hurdle in California. . ‘Simply not enough’: Officials respond to percentage of eligible CA nursing home staff boosted. Counties with the lowest hospital bed capacity in California.

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Hall Render’s Health Provider News – January 21, 2022

Hall Render

UC San Diego Health pays $2.98M settlement over claims of unnecessary genetic testing. UCSF Health names new CEO. Newsom backs away from single-payer health care pledge. Some ER patients waiting days for hospital beds in California. COVID surge, nurse burnout make mess out of hospital staffing.