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Obama’s legacy in healthcare is complicated
John Corlett, president of the Center for Community Solutions, a think tank based in Cleveland, says many voters didn’t take Trump’s promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act seriously.
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Do you advise self-insured employers? You Can Help Us!
Take part in this survey and share some of the trends you are seeing among your clients across healthcare, including chronic conditions, behavioral health and navigation.
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Hospice illustrates challenge of changing black Americans’ negative attitudes towards palliative care
Medicare currently requires patients to give up life-sustaining therapies in order to receive hospice benefits. That trade-off strikes some black families as unfair.
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Obamacare changes how therapists do business
In the corporate world of American health care, with its consolidating hospital chains and doctors’ […]
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Marketplace education and enrollment efforts strong in California despite issues
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Luisa Blue, head of the local Service Employees International Union in San Jose, has five more months to spend a million dollars. The union received a grant from Covered California, the state’s health insurance marketplace and…
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Health insurance for farm workers raises big concerns in California
HURON, Calif. — Farm labor contractors across California — the nation’s biggest agricultural engine — are anxiously studying a provision of the Affordable Care Act, which will require hundreds of thousands of field workers to be covered by heal…
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Trayt Health Seeks to Increase Access to Diagnoses and Treatments
CEO Malekeh Amini explains how Trayt Health can bridge the gap for patients seeking neurological care.
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Weight loss treatments not part of the healthcare plan for some states
JACKSON, Miss. — Uninsured Americans who are hoping the new health insurance law will give them access to weight loss treatments are likely to be disappointed. That’s especially the case in the Deep South where obesity rates are some of the…
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How will people with no bank accounts buy insurance on the exchanges?
When movie stars become unbankable, they’re no longer a slam dunk at the box office. When investments become unbankable, they’re relegated to the junk pile. For ordinary Americans deemed unbankable, those who don’t have a traditional …
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In conservative Arizona, government-run health care that works
As Congress debates an ambitious and far-reaching effort by the Obama administration to streamline medical care and rein in spending for the nation’s sickest and most expensive patients, Arizona – with its finger-wagging Republican governor and Tea Party enthusiasts – is occupying an unusual place in the national landscape: as a model for how a generously-funded, tightly regulated government program can aid vulnerable, low-income patients.
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Cash-only ‘bodega clinicas’ serve large population with little oversight
California health officials describe the clinicas as a parallel health care system, servicing a vast number of uninsured Latino residents, yet the officials say they have little understanding of who owns and operates them, how they are regulated and the quality of the medical care they provide.