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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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Programas de Gobierno , Humanos , MinnesotaRESUMEN
One health system supports patients and their caregivers during a difficult journey, but few payers cover the services.
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Demencia , Cuidadores , Humanos , Nueva OrleansRESUMEN
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 , Anciano , Diabetes Mellitus/prevención & control , Humanos , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
As COVID-19 vaccines and therapies emerge, critical questions remain about access and affordability around the world.
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Betacoronavirus/aislamiento & purificación , Conducta Cooperativa , Infecciones por Coronavirus , Agencias Internacionales , Vacunación Masiva/normas , Pandemias , Neumonía Viral , Vacunas Virales , COVID-19 , Vacunas contra la COVID-19 , Infecciones por Coronavirus/prevención & control , Humanos , SARS-CoV-2 , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
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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Beneficios del Seguro , Cobertura del Seguro , Medicina Preventiva , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
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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Presupuestos , Medios de Comunicación de Masas , Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act/economía , Informe de Investigación , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
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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Negociación , Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act/legislación & jurisprudencia , Política , Formulación de Políticas , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
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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Empleo , Cobertura del Seguro/legislación & jurisprudencia , Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act/legislación & jurisprudencia , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
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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Reforma de la Atención de Salud , Política , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
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 , Formulación de Políticas , Política , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
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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Disentimientos y Disputas , Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , Política , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
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/legislación & jurisprudencia , Formulación de Políticas , Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias , Política , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
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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Servicios Comunitarios de Salud Mental , Reforma de la Atención de Salud , Humanos , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
Mission Hospital has a special holding area for psych patients in its emergency department.
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Servicio de Urgencia en Hospital , Trastornos Mentales , Administración de la Seguridad/organización & administración , Amilasas , Combinación de Medicamentos , Endopeptidasas , Lipasa , Estudios de Casos OrganizacionalesRESUMEN
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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Aplicación de la Ley , Trastornos Mentales , Servicios de Salud Mental , Cobertura del Seguro , Aceptación de la Atención de Salud , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
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.