Showing posts with label Health equity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health equity. Show all posts
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Health Affairs: "The Impact Of The Election On Health Policy And The Courts"

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The nonpartisan and highly respected journal, Health Affairs , today posted an analysis of some of the more conspicuous (and worrying) chan...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

New England Journal of Medicine: "The Failing U.S. Health System"

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It should come as a shock to no one that our health care "system" is only a "system" in the loosest sense of the word. ...
Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Health Care Policy and the 2024 Election

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The presidential campaign hasn't been much about health law, and up to two-thirds of adults are concerned about the lack of discussion ....
Saturday, August 10, 2024

Texas Governor Abbott Weaponizes Charity Care

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Uncompensated care is a serious issue that requires a serious response from serious politicians. On Thursday, rather than doing something to...
Saturday, June 22, 2024

Mark Hall on HCA's Acquisition of Tax-Exempt Health System

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Wake Forest law professor Mark Hall has released the latest chapter in his exhaustive preliminary report on the 2019 acquisition of Ashevill...
Friday, March 08, 2024

Biden's State of the Union Address: 13 Health Care Take-aways

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Becker's Hospital Review takes a look at "13 healthcare takeaways" from President Biden's State of the Union address las...
Thursday, August 03, 2023

Public Health Law Priorities to Pursue While Congress Recesses

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The American Public Health Association (APHA) sent out its call to action during the current Congressional recess. In addition to providing ...
Sunday, July 23, 2023

American Indian/Alaska Native Health Equity; Private Sector Opportunities

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Health Affairs ' fourth installment  (July 21) of the past week in its Forefront series, "Private Sector Solutions For Health Equit...
Saturday, July 22, 2023

Employers Can Improve Reproductive Health Equity

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This is the third in this week's Health Affairs   short series on  Private Sector Solutions For Health Equity : "Employers Can Help...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Private-Sector Strategies to Address Disparities in Access to Mental Health Resources

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Health Affairs  just published the second of four articles on private-sector strategies to address disparities in access to health care: ...

JAMA: SCOTUS Decision on Race in College Admissions Will Worsen Health Care Inequities

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New online and free article in JAMA: "The Supreme Court’s Rulings on Race Neutrality Threaten Progress in Medicine and Health," ...
Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Private Solutions to Address Disparities in Access to Health Care

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The excellent journal Health Affairs has kicked off another series of articles in their Forefront feature " Private Sector Solutions ...
Tuesday, July 04, 2023

FDR's Four Freedoms on the 4th of July 2023

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In his State of the Union speech on Jan. 6, 1941, FDR famously offered up "the Four Freedoms" to explain why the United States was...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Hot Topics in Health Law from AHLA's Annual Meeting

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The American Health Law Association (AHLA) wrapped up its annual meeting on June 28 with a presentation on hot topics. Speakers were from ...
Friday, June 09, 2023

Allina Health Suspends Policy to Deny Care to Patients with Unpaid Bills

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One week ago (see Becker Health (no paywall), June 1 ), the N.Y. Times reported that Allina Health's policy was to deny clinic care to ...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

More on Consolidation within the Health Care Industry

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Fortune 's team of Maria Aspan and Erika Fry have focused their analytical lens on the growth of health care firms in their recent arti...
Friday, May 19, 2023

"Preauthorization" and why your insurer is out to get you

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I am not saying health insurers are evil. Or that their policies are evil. But their claims-handling practices are very often ill-advised, a...

ChatGPT Summary of Congressional Testimony on “Innovation and Patient Access”

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I'm re-posting the latest entry from Jason Shafrin's blog, "Healthcare Economist," for two reasons.  First , "innova...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

Don't Deny COVID Care to the Unvaccinated

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1. It's bad policy. 2. It's not feasible. 3. It's unethical. These are the messages from Ed Yong's latest piece in The Atlan...
Tuesday, December 07, 2021

Bad news for transgender kids: Genecis program is no more

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A story in the Dallas Morning News (Dec. 6) by reporters Marin Wolf and Lauren McGaughy provides extremely useful details and context for t...