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As a hub for local collaboration, a Minneapolis, Minnesota, health system empowers patients by giving them resources to address their health-related social needs.
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Government Programs , Humans , MinnesotaABSTRACT
One health system supports patients and their caregivers during a difficult journey, but few payers cover the services.
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Dementia , Caregivers , Humans , New OrleansABSTRACT
After years of research, Medicare agreed to pay for diabetes prevention programming, but few beneficiaries and providers have enrolled.
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Diabetes Mellitus , Medicare , Aged , Diabetes Mellitus/prevention & control , Humans , United StatesABSTRACT
As COVID-19 vaccines and therapies emerge, critical questions remain about access and affordability around the world.
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Betacoronavirus/isolation & purification , Cooperative Behavior , Coronavirus Infections , International Agencies , Mass Vaccination/standards , Pandemics , Pneumonia, Viral , Viral Vaccines , COVID-19 , COVID-19 Vaccines , Coronavirus Infections/prevention & control , Humans , SARS-CoV-2 , United StatesABSTRACT
ACA repeal puts free cancer screenings and other prevention benefits for seniors and many privately insured patients at risk, though political pressure could make paring benefits hard.
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Insurance Benefits , Insurance Coverage , Preventive Medicine , United StatesABSTRACT
Everyone reported the top-line numbers from the analysis of the House Republicans' American Health Care Act, a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated the bill would drive up the number of uninsured Americans by 24 million over the next decade and reduce the federal deficit by $337 billion.
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Budgets , Mass Media , Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act/economics , Research Report , United StatesABSTRACT
House conservatives want to scale back the bill's coverage while Senate Republicans want to improve it, which would raise the bill's price tag.
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Negotiating , Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act/legislation & jurisprudence , Politics , Policy Making , United StatesSubject(s)
Policy Making , Politics , State Government , Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , United StatesABSTRACT
Would-be entrepreneurs may hesitate to cut ties with employer-based health coverage with the ACA's insurance protections up in the air.
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Employment , Insurance Coverage/legislation & jurisprudence , Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act/legislation & jurisprudence , United StatesABSTRACT
Healthcare stakeholders risk seeing bargains made during ACA negotiations unraveled. But they'll also have significant leverage as Trump and congressional Republicans try to deliver on their healthcare promises.
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Health Care Reform , Politics , United StatesABSTRACT
GOP leaders may decide an ACA deal with Dems would save them a lot of trouble, but they'll have a hard time convincing their right wing.
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , Policy Making , Politics , United StatesABSTRACT
After seven years and many promises, Republican leadership failed to get enough votes to pass legislation that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The American Health Care Act was pulled before a single vote was cast. The move received mixed reactions from many who had a lot at stake under the bill. Here's a quick list of who won and who lost as a result of the failed attempt to repeal Obamacare.
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Dissent and Disputes , Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , Politics , United StatesABSTRACT
Two senators who represent states at the epicenter of the nation's opioid addiction crisis find themselves at the turbulent center of the Republican drive to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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Medicaid/legislation & jurisprudence , Policy Making , Substance-Related Disorders , Politics , United StatesABSTRACT
Most of the systematic change has to be done in each community, with the federal government providing the financing. There's not a silver bullet.
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Community Mental Health Services , Health Care Reform , Humans , United StatesABSTRACT
Mission Hospital has a special holding area for psych patients in its emergency department.
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Emergency Service, Hospital , Mental Disorders , Safety Management/organization & administration , Amylases , Drug Combinations , Endopeptidases , Lipase , Organizational Case StudiesABSTRACT
For nearly 20 years, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Steven Leifman has coordinated the work of state and local agencies in diverting mentally ill people from the jail system and getting them into comprehensive residential and outpatient recovery services. He was a top contender for the new HHS assistant secretary position in charge of mental health and substance abuse policy. In an interview with Modern Healthcare senior reporter Harris Meyer, Leifman described the structural reforms he believes are needed in mental healthcare and what the federal government must do to achieve those improvements. The following is an edited transcript.
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Law Enforcement , Mental Disorders , Mental Health Services , Insurance Coverage , Patient Acceptance of Health Care , United StatesABSTRACT
The challenge for Senate Republicans is to make their bill less politically toxic than the House version, but that will require tough calls on taxes and spending.