• McKinsey's Center for US Health System Reform recently completed independent research on the widening array of options available to consumers selecting MA plans this fall, based on public use data files from CMS. (mckinsey.com)
  • the Clinton Administration's 1993 health reform plan (Wiener et al. (hhs.gov)
  • For years, Republicans have deployed themes of federal arrogance and overreach to underwrite their attacks on health reform. (vox.com)
  • Ryan's assertion raises an implicit challenge, one that Republicans themselves have not wholly thought through: Why bother with national health reform at all? (vox.com)
  • Yet the ACA is a federal statute, and the progressive push for health reform has had a doggedly national focus. (vox.com)
  • A more refined understanding of the need for federal action serves as a rebuke to those who claim Congress can just wash its hands of health reform. (vox.com)
  • And it offers a yardstick against which to measure the new American Health Care Act, which would leave intact the very obstacles that have long prevented the states from tackling reform on their own. (vox.com)
  • Strictly as a strategic matter, the campaign for national health reform needs some defending. (vox.com)
  • Maybe supporters of reform should rack up some wins in the states before tackling the issue at the national level. (vox.com)
  • But concerns about externalities can't justify health reform. (vox.com)
  • Nor are states locked in a race to the bottom that prevents them from embracing health reform. (vox.com)
  • See our interactive Health Reform Calculator here . (commonwealthfund.org)
  • In this report, we analyze eight health care reform packages intended to address shortcomings of the current health insurance system. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • Librarians and scholars who seek to counter the rampant commercialism and consolidation that endanger equal and affordable access to knowledge can learn from the recent successful effort to pass health-care reform. (aaup.org)
  • After a long and contentious national debate, and after many failed attempts over the course of decades, health-care reform was signed into law on March 23, 2010. (aaup.org)
  • The goals of reform were twofold: to extend health care to the vast majority of U.S. citizens and to start to control health-care costs. (aaup.org)
  • In this article, we identify lessons from health-care reform and show how these lessons might be applied to periodical publishing and distribution. (aaup.org)
  • A brief examination of how health-care reform came to be urgently needed helps set the stage for how to reform academic periodical publishing. (aaup.org)
  • Comprehensive efforts to reform the health-care system, such as the Clinton initiative in the early 1990s, also failed. (aaup.org)
  • EWG also wants to shift a large chunk of the farm subsidy dollars into conservation programs and reform crop insurance-which has ballooned into another lavish subsidy for producers. (civileats.com)
  • Some legislators and advocates touted the approach during debate over President Obama's health reform law. (empirecenter.org)
  • There have been repeated efforts to adopt some sort of national health insurance program for the United States or to reform and improve the system we already have, but so far those efforts have failed. (pov.org)
  • The White House is turning to the Internet to hit back at a Web posting that claims to show President Barack Obama explaining how his health care reform plans eventually would eliminate private insurance. (shadowproof.com)
  • In an article over the weekend, the National Journal highlighted congressional Republicans' strategy to defeat efforts to reform health care. (shadowproof.com)
  • Friday, Politico.com editor Fred Barbash posed this question to "Arena" contributors: "Does the ongoing debate about healthcare reform reflect a :'kind of culture war" that can be traced to a "fundamental difference in world views? (shadowproof.com)
  • Indeed, in September 2009 , in the midst of a historic push to otherwise expand health coverage in the United States, President Obama took pains to reassure Congress and the public that no federal dollars would be used to fund abortion in any health-care reform legislation, in line with Hyde. (democracyjournal.org)
  • Rather than cementing the preexisting Hyde "compromise," however, the health-care reform debate blew it up. (democracyjournal.org)
  • The senator from Vermont explains why there is now so much interest in bold reform of America's health-care system. (thenation.com)
  • Last year's three-ring Congressional shutdown circus - for many little more than a desperate rearguard action by an isolated rightwing fringe to undo the fait accompli of Barack Obama's health care reform - reinforced with each passing day the gaudy dysfunction of the American political system. (truthout.org)
  • But we miss something crucial if we construe the perseverance of Barack Obama's 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) as nothing more than the overdue victory of commonsense health care reform over an irrelevant and intransigent right, or, even more, as the glorious culmination of a progressive dream for American universal health care long deferred. (truthout.org)
  • Two-week international courses on this specific subject were held in Brazil (with the National School of Public Health, Rio de Janeiro) and Lebanon (with the Inter-Ministerial Council for Health Reform in Lebanon and Boston University, United States of America). (who.int)
  • It emphasizes that while HTA evaluates individual healthcare interventions, HBP reform aims to create comprehensive service sets considering overall population health needs and available resources. (bvsalud.org)
  • He also says he'd block grant Medicaid to the states because they know their people best and can manage Medicaid better without federal overhead. (ibtimes.com)
  • Clinton supports incentivizing states to expand Medicaid and make enrollment into Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act easier as a way to get health insurance to the lowest income Americans. (ibtimes.com)
  • He advocates for reforming of mental health programs and institutions and reducing the number of people who need access to Medicaid and similar programs by bringing jobs back to the U.S. (ibtimes.com)
  • And maybe, just maybe, you could puncture the balloon by paying for federal programs through vouchers, or block Medicaid grants to states, or private care through health savings accounts with high deductibles. (blogspot.com)
  • Following a Supreme Court decision that made Medicaid expansion optional for states, many poor adults in the 17 states that have yet to expand the program have been left without any financial assistance for coverage. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • Focusing on the working poor who represent most of the uninsured population, the Affordable Care Act-aka Obamacare-expanded Medicaid coverage for people below 138 percent of the poverty level and used tax credits to subsidize private insurance for people above that threshold. (empirecenter.org)
  • To accomplish this, the state would need to obtain federal waivers allowing the New York Health Plan to absorb Medicaid, Medicare, and Affordable Care Act programs, along with their funding. (empirecenter.org)
  • State and local government is weakened with every joint state/federal program, and Medicaid expansion is no exception. (alec.org)
  • The debate over Medicaid expansion is as much about federalism and the issue of state control as it is about money-because these are ultimately one in the same. (alec.org)
  • The Affordable Care Act (ACA) includes Medicaid expansion, which widens the range of eligible individuals who can receive government insurance. (alec.org)
  • Under the ACA, all states, as part of their Medicaid program, had to accept Medicaid expansion or risk losing all Medicaid funding. (alec.org)
  • States had a choice on accepting Medicaid expansion. (alec.org)
  • Seen through a federalism lens, Medicaid expansion is the price that the federal government is willing to pay in order to impose its preferred policies on the states. (alec.org)
  • Programs such as Medicaid, billed as "federal/state partnerships" blur those lines a bit. (alec.org)
  • The program actually includes Medicaid funding and, because of that, the state must annually ask the federal government for permission to extend its waiver-demonstrating yet another peril of ceding ground to the federal government in this area. (alec.org)
  • Some politicians claim that by accepting Medicaid expansion the state can always drop expansion if the federal government breaks its funding promises (2). (alec.org)
  • The Supreme Court only recognized that states are entitled to have a choice in the matter, not that they are entitled to a "get out of Medicaid free" card. (alec.org)
  • That means that the federal government could pull all Medicaid funding from a state if that state opted out of Medicaid expansion after already accepting it. (alec.org)
  • Medicaid expansion, and the money promised to the states considering it, is the price that the federal government is willing to pay a state in order to entangle it in the federal government's policy goals. (alec.org)
  • In its separate June report to Congress, the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program Payment and Access Commission suggests lawmakers create a special enrollment period for people dually eligible for Medicaid and Medicare and allocate more funds for states to implement integrated care models for those beneficiaries, who it notes are particularly vulnerable to severe illness from COVID-19. (healthcaredive.com)
  • The 29 states in which expanded coverage took effect before the end of 2015 were categorized as Medicaid expansion states, and the remaining 21 states were categorized as Medicaid nonexpansion states. (jamanetwork.com)
  • The organization recently unveiled its 2024 policy priorities , highlighting the importance of expanding Medicaid and ending the state sales tax on groceries to improve residents' overall well-being. (publicnewsservice.org)
  • This report includes national data on racial and ethnic disparities in coverage and access among older adults, from 2012 (two years prior to the implementation of the ACA) through 2021, the eighth full year of Marketplace operations. (aarp.org)
  • In 2021, The Gambia passed its National Health Insurance (NHI) Act. (bvsalud.org)
  • Of course, innovation continues to occur in Medicare FFS as well-for example, CMS began reimbursing for an expanded set of telehealth services, which can enable more convenient access to care, for example, in rural areas and for individuals with behavioral health issues. (mckinsey.com)
  • The Conservative Party has notably committed to a minimum increase of £8 billion NHS funding per year, alongside their promises of 7-day access to GPs, extension of opening times, and an increase of funding for mental health care. (rpc.co.uk)
  • And according to a Kaiser Foundation Health Tracking Poll in August, "two-thirds of voters say the future of Medicare and access and affordability of health care are top priorities for the candidates to be talking about. (ibtimes.com)
  • Clinton advocates expanding access to affordable health care regardless of immigration status, allowing all families to buy health insurance. (ibtimes.com)
  • Trump says he'll review Medicaid's options and work with states to ensure that low income Americans have access to healthcare and that "no one slips through the cracks simply because they cannot afford insurance. (ibtimes.com)
  • This analysis examines rural-urban differences in health care coverage, affordability, and access over time from 2012, two years prior to implementation of the ACA, through 2019, the sixth full year of ACA Marketplace operations. (aarp.org)
  • The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has substantially reduced the number of uninsured Americans, increased access to care, reduced uncompensated care for hospitals and other providers, and largely eliminated discrimination against the sick in private health insurance markets. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • Many Americans were led to believe that the introduction of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2009 would put an end to disparities in health care access. (ipl.org)
  • While it did improve the situation for a small percentage of the population there are still many Americans who lack access to good quality health care. (ipl.org)
  • Health care access in America is determined by money and those in lower socioeconomic groups frequently tend to miss out on adequate care. (ipl.org)
  • In a recent health care report by the national health research foundation Kaiser Family Foundation, it was noted "health care disparities remain a persistent problem in the United States, leading to certain groups being at higher risk of being uninsured, having limited access to care, and experiencing poorer quality of care" (Kaiser Family Foundation). (ipl.org)
  • Universal Coverage Health Policy Proposal One of the most significant issues that continue to affect Americans is inadequate access to healthcare. (ipl.org)
  • 5 And within the United States, the divide has widened between those who have opportunities for good health and access to high-quality health care and those who face systematic barriers. (americanprogress.org)
  • It became evident that a reduction in the rate of cost increase, accompanied by better access to health care, would not be brought about by a publicly or federally driven plan. (aaup.org)
  • All the entities welcomed initiatives to improve access to quality health care services to all South Africans and proposed a number of amendments to the Bill. (pmg.org.za)
  • For example, having a lower income can lead to healthcare access barriers and difficulty living a healthy lifestyle, while in turn, poor health can lead to an inability to work, and thus lower income. (healthsystemtracker.org)
  • One of the things that matters the most to me is knowing that due to my work in Pennsylvania with the Children's House Insurance Program (CHIP), over 160,000 Pennsylvania kids have access to health coverage. (dailyinterview.net)
  • In fact five years after Pennsylvania established our CHIP effort, Congress used the Commonwealth as a model for the federal initiative, CHIP, that now enables 6.6 million American children to have access to health coverage. (dailyinterview.net)
  • In Congress, I continue to focus on healthcare, including working for the expansion of CHIP to cover all eligible children and to establish policies that expand affordability, access, and quality. (dailyinterview.net)
  • Within the current political reality, how can America implement policies that increase access to health insurance while also reducing premium costs and enhancing responsiveness to consumer priorities and needs? (4sighthealth.com)
  • Yet, given the impact of the COVID pandemic on people who have lost (or have worried about losing) their employer-based insurance coverage and the intensifying pressure to reduce overall healthcare costs, solutions that increase health insurance access and affordability have become more important than ever. (4sighthealth.com)
  • While federal measures to improve insurance access have stalled or been reversed over the past eight years, SBMs have quietly implemented programming modifications for stabilizing local markets that improve the quality and marketability of health insurance offerings to the benefit of consumers. (4sighthealth.com)
  • SBMs can also curate offerings more actively by selecting which health insurance carriers and plans they allow and setting standards for participation, competition, quality, access and affordability. (4sighthealth.com)
  • A looming shortage of practicing obstetricians and gynecologists (OBGYNs) to meet the growing national demand threatens women's access to health-care. (columbialawreview.org)
  • With little movement on the federal level, states have attempted to address medical malpractice crises head-on: by reforming the medical-legal environment in order to alleviate high liability insur-ance costs, expecting relief from liability to not only benefit practitioners but also clear a potential barrier to women's healthcare access. (columbialawreview.org)
  • to stabilize and reduce liability insurance premiums for OBGYNs, thereby preserving women's access to healthcare while also provid-ing more efficient compensation to victims of birth-related injuries. (columbialawreview.org)
  • For some people their monthly premium and the cost of their health care may be more important than having access to everything," Holmberg says. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • A global framework for expanding access to essential drugs has been built on the basis of the WHO medicines strategy, the work of UNAIDS and other United Nations agencies on access to HIV- related drugs, and the outcomes of the Director-General's round tables with the pharmaceutical industry and public interest groups. (who.int)
  • Ensured access to medicines is part of the fulfilment of the right to health. (who.int)
  • The issues of low access to essential medicines and unaffordable medicine prices cannot be effectively tackled without employing a broad health system approach. (who.int)
  • Add it all up and what you have is interesting: Against the backdrop of an industry that has been criticized for persistently risings costs without much to show in terms of benefits (e.g., alarmingly, life expectancy in the United States is declining), seniors in the United States may experience an opportunity to effectively get more for less. (mckinsey.com)
  • As of 2018, the United States ranked 46th in life expectancy worldwide. (americanprogress.org)
  • Life expectancy has increased over the past century in industrialized countries, including the United States. (americanprogress.org)
  • 10 (see Figure 1) In the ensuing years, life expectancy in other countries continued to outpace life expectancy in the United States, widening the gap between it and other countries. (americanprogress.org)
  • Despite having significantly higher health spending than comparably wealthy and sizable countries, the U.S. lags behind other countries in several measures of health outcomes, with worse life expectancy , mortality , and disease burden rates . (healthsystemtracker.org)
  • Racial disparities may contribute to the United States' relatively low life expectancy, but it is unclear how much or in what way. (healthsystemtracker.org)
  • More recently, the Bipartisan Policy Center (2016) and the Long-Term Care Financing Collaborative (2016) have proposed LTSS financing reforms that combine public insurance for catastrophic LTSS costs with initiatives to promote private LTCI coverage for other LTSS expenses to encourage families to pre-fund some of their future expenses. (hhs.gov)
  • Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton shake hands at the end of their first presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, Sept. 26, 2016. (ibtimes.com)
  • Ahead of Sunday's presidential debate, a Pew Research Center survey in July revealed that 74 percent of registered voters said health care is "very important" to their vote in 2016. (ibtimes.com)
  • The single-payer concept garnered more national attention during the 2016 presidential race as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders made his "Medicare for All" proposal a centerpiece of his campaign for the Democratic nomination. (empirecenter.org)
  • In 2016, six out of the top 10 companies were from the United States when based on pure pharmaceutical revenue. (ethosdebate.com)
  • First, we see payers improving affordability for consumers, with average out-of-pocket maximums for $0 premium plans (seniors pay no monthly premium beyond their Part B premiums in these plans) lowered by 4 percent, and in some markets a new wave of products that give seniors a refund on their Medicare Part B premiums. (mckinsey.com)
  • To make up for lost insurance premiums, the move would also entail more than doubling the tax burden of what's already the nation's most heavily taxed state. (empirecenter.org)
  • Such a marketplace could expand current offerings to include Medicare Advantage plans, ICHRAS (Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements that enable employers to pay for individual market premiums), and a Medicare public option should one become available. (4sighthealth.com)
  • While this represented an improved approach to public policy-making, several CSOs representing key constituents and advocating for the expansion of exemption criteria for insurance premiums to include more vulnerable groups felt excluded from the process. (bvsalud.org)
  • With so much attention focused on the debate over the merits of Medicare for All, it is easy to lose sight of changes in Medicare Advantage. (mckinsey.com)
  • Doctors pull out of Medicare en masse. (blogspot.com)
  • For ACOs in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, the commission suggests HHS use national provider identifiers instead of taxpayer identification numbers. (healthcaredive.com)
  • Bernie Sanders has for decades argued that the United States must establish a single-payer health-care system that provides the guarantee of care for all while controlling costs-what he calls a "Medicare for All" structure. (thenation.com)
  • The implications of regional variations in Medicare spending: part 2: health outcomes and satisfaction with care. (jamanetwork.com)
  • It explains that health outcomes in the United States are shaped less by health care than by living conditions such as education, income, food security, housing, neighborhoods, and the environment. (americanprogress.org)
  • Some of this cross-national difference in health outcomes could be due to quality of care provided (a comparative chart collection is available here ). (healthsystemtracker.org)
  • Albeit unknown to what degree, some of the difference in costs and outcomes could also be due to societal, economic, and environmental factors that influence health but are in some respects outside the control of the health system. (healthsystemtracker.org)
  • Rather, these data can give us a sense of whether the U.S. has higher rates of external factors that might negatively influence health outcomes or lead to higher spending relative to similarly sizable and wealthy OECD countries. (healthsystemtracker.org)
  • A large body of research has examined the ways in which income can significantly influence health outcomes. (healthsystemtracker.org)
  • In addition, as value-based payment reforms advance, health insurers will have incentives to achieve better healthcare outcomes at lower costs. (4sighthealth.com)
  • 2019 Annual Report of the Boards of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds. (mckinsey.com)
  • The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has triggered a historic public health and economic crisis. (ucsb.edu)
  • The costs of medical care are soaring, and taking care of the uninsured adds a tremendous strain to already overburdened local and state governments. (pov.org)
  • The deduction also allows certain government entities to allocate the deduction to taxable project partners, effectively matching the cost recovery treatment provided by expensing for entities like public universities and state governments. (nacubo.org)
  • We reiterate the commitments made by our heads of State and Governments at major United Nations conferences and summits, at their follow-up processes and in the Millennium Declaration with respect to the promotion of international and national environments that will foster a society for all ages. (who.int)
  • You've heard it time and again: The Affordable Care Act was a federal takeover of the health care system, an overweening piece of legislation that President Barack Obama shoved down the throats of a balky public on a party-line vote. (vox.com)
  • At the core of our federal system is the principle that the states should retain control over their own affairs unless there's good reason for Washington's involvement. (vox.com)
  • To counteract ever-widening spending gaps, alternative options could be reduced entitlement, top-up charges, and more private GPs and private medical insurance, with the extreme being a move towards a United States style health system. (rpc.co.uk)
  • Everything you always wanted to know about the Health Care system. (thehealthcareblog.com)
  • But I believe in the metaphor of the health system as a balloon, which when squeezed simply bulges out somewhere else. (blogspot.com)
  • As you can see on the right side of this blog, the book cover features a box containing a diagram of the labyrithic, byzantine, fiendishly complicated maze of the new health system as set forth in the new health care law- variously known as the Patient Protection Affordability Act, The Affordability Act, or simply as Obamacare. (blogspot.com)
  • The positioning of these people znd entities explains why the new health system is a "top-down" system. (blogspot.com)
  • Our Scorecard ranks every state's health care system based on how well it provides high-quality, accessible, and equitable health care. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • Some would make fundamental changes to the structure of the U.S. health insurance system, while others would build on the existing system. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • the last two are alternative approaches to a single-payer health system. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • In Chapter 14, I have learned that the U.S. health care system has the most expensive healthcare system in the world and the price tag is expected to increase. (ipl.org)
  • The U.S health care system, unlike other systems in the world, does not provide healthcare services to all citizens. (ipl.org)
  • Beyond affordability questions, a single-payer system would impose government price control on all health-care services, eliminating any vestige of market competition in a major sector of the state economy. (empirecenter.org)
  • Under a true single-payer system, the government takes direct, primary responsibility for financing medical care, either through a publicly owned and operated health system (as in the United Kingdom) or by paying all claims submitted by independent providers (as in Canada). (empirecenter.org)
  • A new poll from Rasmussen shows that Republicans are suddenly more satisfied with the U.S. health care system. (shadowproof.com)
  • As the CRS found, illegal aliens can participate in most of the critical aspects of the government health system including the health care exchanges. (blogspot.com)
  • The Collaboration for Health Systems Analysis and Innovation outlined the concept of a 'learning health system' and emphasised the need for strengthening the health system. (pmg.org.za)
  • It was asked if the Association was comfortable with the current two-tier inequitable health system. (pmg.org.za)
  • The Forum supported the maintenance of a private sector in the health system to contract services for NHI. (pmg.org.za)
  • The health care system and, most importantly, the individuals caring for the victims of the pandemic need our support and the resources to do their jobs," the MedPAC authors wrote. (healthcaredive.com)
  • Get the best of the Health System Tracker delivered to your inbox. (healthsystemtracker.org)
  • Our analysis does not intend to be a comprehensive look at all factors that could be considered social determinants - nor does it aim to isolate a set of health determinants outside the realm of the health system. (healthsystemtracker.org)
  • Results from the National Scorecard on US Health System Performance, 2008 . (jamanetwork.com)
  • This Note, in contrast, argues for a lasting and comprehensive approach to the liability insurance system for OBGYNs. (columbialawreview.org)
  • She has to find all new doctors through another health system that is unfamiliar to her. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • It bought the struggling West Penn Allegheny Health System, which was UPMC's main competitor. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • It went from one of the least competitive environments that you can imagine - a dominant insurer and a dominant health system joined at the hips with a long term contract," says Romoff, "To one without a long-term contract with, now, five choices. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • Most plainly, when we consider the provisions and limitations of the law, it becomes clear that though it may help many, the ACA fails fundamentally to create what so many had hoped for: a system of universal health care. (truthout.org)
  • For the law fundamentally leaves intact a system of health care predicated, as we shall see, on key neoliberal health care beliefs, for instance the "moral hazard" of free care, the primacy of health consumerism, and the essentiality of the private health insurance industry. (truthout.org)
  • In 1942, the civil servant William Beveridge - erstwhile social worker, pundit, and social insurance researcher - was famously assigned with the seemingly mundane war-time task of surveying Britain's social insurance schemes, to bring some order to its fragmented, disorganized, and overall insufficient welfare system. (truthout.org)
  • Exceeding his mandate, as Nicholas Timmins explains in The Five Giants , Beveridge instead made history by proposing a comprehensive system of social insurance, given "as of right," and inclusive of national health care provided "without a charge on treatment at any point. (truthout.org)
  • The strategy was elaborated in consultation with more than 60 institutions, including WHO collaborating centres, agencies in the United Nations system, other international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and members of WHO expert advisory panels. (who.int)
  • Although the medicine price surveys were not directly aimed at wider health system issues, the findings reveal the importance of broader issues related to health systems, social protection and development policies. (who.int)
  • America may be in an economic crisis now, but it's also generally accepted that we are in a health care crisis as well, with more than 40 million Americans lacking health insurance. (pov.org)
  • J-PAL North America is based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. (povertyactionlab.org)
  • Before Obamacare, in contrast, only two deep-blue states had significantly expanded coverage, Massachusetts and Hawaii. (vox.com)
  • We might see such a race develop if, for example, a state's adoption of a coverage expansion led sick people to flock to the state. (vox.com)
  • We estimate their potential effects on health insurance coverage and spending by government, households, and employers. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • I also support the individual mandate for health insurance coverage, but the cost containment needs a serious attention to make health care more affordable. (ipl.org)
  • In Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery , epidemiologist Harry Sultz and public-health instructor Kristina Young, both of the State University of New York at Buffalo, demonstrate that efforts to manage costs have been secondary to expanding coverage and maintaining standards of quality care. (aaup.org)
  • Proponents of enacting a single-payer health plan for New York are pitching it as a cure-all-one fix that would achieve true universal coverage, allow people to see any doctor and use any hospital, abolish copays and deductibles, cut down on paperwork, and save billions of dollars in the bargain. (empirecenter.org)
  • Yet conventional wisdom among many center-left Washington insiders is that trying to put an end to the routine re-enactment of the Hyde Amendment-let alone affirmatively requiring abortion coverage in public and private insurance plans-is not only a political non-starter but downright toxic. (democracyjournal.org)
  • This development was due in part to the fact that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) applied federal restrictions to abortion coverage in the private insurance market for the first time-directly threatening the interests of middle-class voters. (democracyjournal.org)
  • adequate reproductive and general health care services and adequate insurance coverage for these services. (rcrc.org)
  • At the same time, millions of people who are potentially eligible for coverage under the ACA or other laws remain uninsured, and obtaining insurance benefits is more difficult than necessary. (ucsb.edu)
  • and (v) policies or practices that may reduce the affordability of coverage or financial assistance for coverage, including for dependents. (ucsb.edu)
  • The level of inequity was highlighted as a significant concern as well as the need in light of this for national health coverage. (pmg.org.za)
  • Malpractice litigation not only distracts and demoralizes but also increases the cost of professional liability insurance, making it difficult for OBGYNs to maintain affordable liability coverage. (columbialawreview.org)
  • With the law's passage in March 2010 and its survival in the face of a constitutional review by the Supreme Court, they have concluded that the battle "over universal health coverage," as one writer for the Washington Post put it, "is basically over. (truthout.org)
  • This Commentary explores the relationship between Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Health Benefits Package (HBP) design to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in low- and middle-income countries. (bvsalud.org)
  • Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) involves difficult policy choices, and fair processes are critical for building legitimacy and trust. (bvsalud.org)
  • Health vulnerability measures are marked with asterisks because they are calculated differently than other indicators. (cdc.gov)
  • Yes, they are really asking for it by flagrantly violating the memorandum of February, which clearly states no unilateral measures that have budgetary impact over the next four months. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • This funding split was not originally meant to be an enticement for states to accept expansion. (alec.org)
  • It's not as though the federal government will simply allow a state to back out of the expansion once the deal has been made. (alec.org)
  • This is not, however, an acute development: indeed, as we survey the last half-century, a long, slow, yet unambiguous neoliberal turn in the political economy of American health care becomes evident, during which the window for true universal health care - wide open as recently as the 1970s - has been slowly closed simultaneous to a historic rise in inequality and an unprecedented expansion of corporate power. (truthout.org)
  • Good governance is a critical precondition for the effective working of health systems and is key to achieving equitable health care deliverables. (who.int)
  • There's a kernel of truth to the claim that Obamacare needlessly impinged on state prerogatives. (vox.com)
  • Trump would require price transparency from all health organizations, allowing patients to shop around for the best prices. (ibtimes.com)
  • Thus, opportunities opened for models that could steer patients through health-care systems and help them avoid needless and expensive costs-a premise employed by managed care (for example, through health-maintenance and preferred-provider organizations [HMOs and PPOs]) to establish a ubiquitous presence in health care. (aaup.org)
  • Our member organizations represent diverse religions and theologies unified in preserving reproductive health, rights and justice as a basic principle of religious liberty and diversity. (rcrc.org)
  • Moreover, while the debate did much to reinforce their stance that there should be "no taxpayer funding for abortion," it simultaneously served as a catalyst for moving the issue back to the top of the list of priorities among a wide range of reproductive health, rights, and justice organizations . (democracyjournal.org)
  • The headquarters for University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield dominate the Pittsburgh skyline much as they organizations have dominated health care in the region for decades. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice is a broad-based, national, interfaith movement that brings the moral force of religion to protect and advance reproductive health, choice, rights and justice through education, prophetic witness, pastoral presence and advocacy. (rcrc.org)
  • RCRC values and promotes religious liberty which upholds the human and constitutional rights of all people to exercise their conscience to make their own reproductive health decisions without shame and stigma. (rcrc.org)
  • RCRC challenges systems of oppression and seeks to remove the multiple barriers that impede individuals, especially those in marginalized communities in accessing comprehensive reproductive health care with respect and dignity. (rcrc.org)
  • For more than 40 years, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC) has been the sole organization bringing interfaith and multiracial voices to reproductive health, rights and justice issues. (rcrc.org)
  • In 1984, RCAR created the Women of Color Partnership Program (WCPP), which throughout the '80s collaborated with other groups such as the Black Women's Health Project, the National Organization for Women's Women of Color Program, the American Civil Liberties Union Reproductive Freedom Project, the National Abortion Rights Action League and Planned Parenthood. (rcrc.org)
  • In 1993, RCAR broadened its mission to include related issues of reproductive health and justice. (rcrc.org)
  • Since then, controversies over issues of sex, sexuality, reproductive health and reproductive freedom have grown and intensified. (rcrc.org)
  • Based on our religious beliefs and our commitment to reproductive justice, we also champion a range of issues that impact families, family formation and the health and well being of communities. (rcrc.org)
  • The U.S. is the highest spender on health care per capita among industrialized nations. (ipl.org)
  • It makes a lot of sense for the federal government to act, for example, when states can impose costs - "externalities," in the economic jargon - onto other states. (vox.com)
  • Although it was expressed in several opinions, seven of the nine justices agreed that the national government could not impose such a harsh sentence on states for not accepting what the Court considered an unpredictable change to the joint state/federal program. (alec.org)
  • Resolved: The United States federal government should impose price controls on the pharmaceutical industry. (ethosdebate.com)
  • and the 2010 Affordable Care Act, which included the never-implemented Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act that would have created a national program of voluntary long-term care insurance (LTCI). (hhs.gov)
  • A Second Look at the Affordable Care Act David E. Mann, ABA American Military University POLS210 Abstract Since the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), twenty-eight states have either filed joint or individual lawsuits to strike down the PPACA. (ipl.org)
  • a) Executive Order 13765 of January 20, 2017 (Minimizing the Economic Burden of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Pending Repeal), and Executive Order 13813 of October 12, 2017 (Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United States), are revoked. (ucsb.edu)
  • Enabled by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, state-based marketplaces (SBMs, sometimes called state-based exchanges) currently operate in 14 states and the District of Columbia. (4sighthealth.com)
  • There's another reason an insurance company would decide to become a healthcare provider: the Affordable Care Act. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • The failings of the Affordable Care Act are rooted in a long shift away from the idea of a truly universal health care. (truthout.org)
  • It currently produces over 20% of global generic products and is at the center of a coalition of the willing who want to improve affordability of patented pharmaceuticals for the so-called 'bottom billion. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The strategy and its associated activities are designed to cover many components of a national drug policy and an essential drugs programme, and to ensure that WHO's work related to pharmaceuticals is internally consistent and of maximum practical benefit to national programmes. (who.int)
  • Article Two of the United States Constitution provides that the President and Vice President of the United States must be natural-born citizens of the United States, at least 35 years old, and residents of the United States for a period of at least 14 years. (wikipedia.org)
  • For decades, the health of U.S. citizens has been getting progressively worse than the health of citizens in other high-income countries, and the United States' health disparities have widened. (americanprogress.org)
  • It is working to reverse Citizens United, the U.S. Supreme Court decision giving corporations the right to make unlimited political contributions. (publicnewsservice.org)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are currently 4.9 million deaths a year attributable to tobacco, a figure expected to rise to about 10 million a year by the early 2020s. (who.int)
  • It was recently announced that our health service requires an additional minimum of £8 billion a year by 2020 to fill a spending gap. (rpc.co.uk)
  • During the 2020 presidential election season, plans for addressing these and other shortcomings will be central to candidates' campaigns and a focus of presidential debates. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • In January of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic was spreading, the Secretary of Health and Human Services declared a public health emergency. (ucsb.edu)
  • In March of 2020, the President declared a national emergency. (ucsb.edu)
  • These rates are below the Health People 2020 targets for screening. (cdc.gov)
  • Another six states operate as SBMs using the federal government's HealthCare.gov's technology platform. (4sighthealth.com)
  • The scientists and public health officials who are leading the federal government's response to the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday painted a sobering picture of a country ill-prepared to reopen and contain the spread of the virus in the coming months. (demcastusa.com)
  • But Fauci's Tuesday testimony clashes with the GOP's vision, and it's fueling growing fatigue among Republicans with one of the government's most trusted public health leaders at a critical moment. (demcastusa.com)
  • and develop and implement health promotion policies and strategies. (who.int)
  • We emphasize that, in order to complement national efforts to fully implement the International Plan of Action on Ageing 2002, enhanced international cooperation is essential. (who.int)
  • To meaningfully improve the health of Americans, new policies must target all of the drivers of health, including education, economic stability, neighborhoods and environments, social and community well-being, and historic inequities. (americanprogress.org)
  • This is because the U.S. spends less than other countries on non-health social services, although such programs could indirectly improve health. (healthsystemtracker.org)
  • Here are four ways states can improve their SBMs. (4sighthealth.com)
  • It aims to help to save lives and to improve health by closing the huge gap between the potential that essential drugs have to offer and the reality for millions of people that medicines are unavailable, unaffordable, unsafe, of poor quality or improperly used. (who.int)
  • Health spending in OECD countries: obtaining value per dollar. (jamanetwork.com)
  • The executive caught up with Healthcare Dive to chat day one priorities, her vision for health equity, closing care gaps and why this might be the role she's wanted all of her career. (healthcaredive.com)
  • Finally, this Note argues that the federal government should pick up where the states have fallen short and adopt compre-hensive rather than stopgap solutions to an issue demanding more than a quick fix. (columbialawreview.org)
  • They do not reflect the views of the Department of Health and Human Services, the contractor or any other funding organization. (hhs.gov)
  • Except where noted, the studies used data from the Health and Retirement Study, a large, nationally representative survey that has been tracking older Americans since 1992. (hhs.gov)
  • Now, the health of Americans is in a precarious place. (americanprogress.org)
  • This matters not only because Americans live with more sickness and die sooner than their peers in other rich nations, but also because a decline in the nation's health has ripple effects-on the economy, workforce productivity, health care costs, the fitness of military recruits, and national security. (americanprogress.org)
  • Meaningful change to restore the health of Americans and reduce inequities requires a concerted effort by the nation to close the gap with other countries-an effort that must include investments in schools, jobs, economic opportunity, and community infrastructure. (americanprogress.org)
  • 10. Since only two percent of Americans directly engage in farming, the farm bill is largely crafted and debated out of the spotlight. (civileats.com)
  • Yet the idea of creating a similar health plan to cover all Americans has never gotten very far in Washington. (empirecenter.org)
  • Over 30 million Americans remain uninsured, preventing many from obtaining necessary health services and treatment. (ucsb.edu)
  • People with a lower income are less likely than those with higher incomes to report being in good health, and there is a growing disparity in the life expectancies of low and high income Americans. (healthsystemtracker.org)
  • When the Supreme Court invalidated state bans on same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges , fully 35 states already allowed it. (vox.com)
  • RCRC as it exists today evolved from an underground network of ministers and rabbis called the Clergy Consultation Service (CCS), formed in 1967, six years before the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalized abortion in the United States. (rcrc.org)
  • In the landmark June 2012 decision, NFIB v. Sebelius , the United States Supreme Court agreed. (alec.org)
  • So what would John McCain do about health care? (pov.org)
  • He is a health policy surrogate for the 2008 John McCain Presidential Campaign. (pov.org)
  • As it turns out, health care performance is worst in precisely those reddest of states which voted for George W. Bush and John McCain. (shadowproof.com)
  • Both acute and long-term exposure to elevated levels of ozone in air are associated with negative health effects ranging from increased morbidity and mortality due to respiratory and cardiovascular disease (Crouse et al. (cdc.gov)
  • 2017). Together with PM2.5, ozone is a major contributor to air pollution-related morbidity and mortality, with an estimated 4,700 ozone-related deaths in the United States in 2005 (Fann et al. (cdc.gov)
  • On the top left of the maze is the President, at the top right of the maze is the Congress, in the middle of Secretary of Health and Human Services, at the bottom left of the maze are physicians, at the bottom right of the maze are patients. (blogspot.com)
  • RCRC, the National Council of Jewish Women, and Catholics for Choice assert that people of faith support choice, and call on Congress to end the Hyde Amendment in this joint op-ed. (rcrc.org)
  • In 1989 Patricia Tyson, director of RCAR, signed on to the "We Remember" statement organized by Donna Brazile, then executive director of the National Political Congress of Black Women. (rcrc.org)
  • Both reports to Congress acknowledge that the COVID-19 pandemic is engulfing healthcare in the United States, but the work presented has been ongoing since before the novel coronavirus hit the country. (healthcaredive.com)
  • The advisory panels reports to Congress are nonbinding, but offer commentary lawmakers and other policymakers use to evaluate changes to the massive government health programs. (healthcaredive.com)
  • Congress has iced the Farm Bill, but farmer advocates argue some portions are urgent, the Hoosier State is reaping big rewards from wind and solar, and opponents react to a road through Alaska's Brooks Range, long a dream destination for hunters and anglers. (publicnewsservice.org)
  • Individuals rely on health insurance to pay a large portion of their healthcare costs. (ipl.org)
  • Leaving millions still uninsured and many more "underinsured" - a well-described and researched phenomenon in which the possession of health insurance still leaves individuals and families with dangerous financial liability when illness strikes - the ACA falls well short of the standard of universal health care as it is understood elsewhere in the social democratic world. (truthout.org)
  • Gottfried's New York Health Act, Assembly bill No. 5062A in the 2015-16 session, would dismantle the state's entire health-care financing infrastructure, replacing all public and private insurance with a single, government-run, taxpayer-financed health plan. (empirecenter.org)
  • A pair of bipartisan former mayors is launching an initiative to build support for using public-private partnerships as a means of paying for the trillions of dollars in infrastructure funding being debated in Washington. (politico.com)
  • Although varying models exist, consideration of social determinants of health generally includes: individual and community behaviors, economic circumstances, and environmental factors. (healthsystemtracker.org)
  • The complex nature of social determinants makes it difficult for researchers to estimate the relative contribution to health. (healthsystemtracker.org)
  • And while cross-national assessments of social determinants of health are a useful compass, comparisons are complicated by differences in measurement, as well as national demographics (including race and age). (healthsystemtracker.org)
  • In Improving Health Policy and Management , Kenneth Thorpe explored health-care costs during the past twenty years and found that efforts to suppress health-care inflation were largely unsuccessful. (aaup.org)
  • Data from the Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research and Education Trust Employer Health Benefits Survey. (jamanetwork.com)
  • There are now a dozen monkeypox cases in Connecticut and the state Department of Public Health is trying to raise awareness specifically among the population of men who have sex with men. (ctnewsjunkie.com)
  • Department of Public Health Commissioner Manisha Juthani said the general population should be aware of the disease and women can also be infected because it's transmitted through open sores. (ctnewsjunkie.com)
  • And E. Richard Brown , Director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Professor at the UCLA School of Public Health, and health policy advisor for the 2008 Barack Obama Presidential Campaign. (pov.org)
  • At a Senate hearing, the officials cautioned that a vaccine would almost certainly not come in time to protect students for the return to school in the fall, that a recently authorized treatment was not a game-changing advance and that states had to rebuild their depleted public health systems by hiring enough people before they could effectively track the spread of the virus and contain it. (demcastusa.com)
  • A review of U.S. public health and cancer conference abstracts, that were readily available and had focused on at least of 3 cancer types and included outcome data, was conducted. (cdc.gov)
  • 1000 RPC people united by a passion for client service. (rpc.co.uk)
  • The NHS is now one of the world's largest publicly funded health services, and employs more than 1.6million people. (rpc.co.uk)
  • Trump wants to allow people to fully deduct health insurance premium payments from their tax returns. (ibtimes.com)
  • The SGR says the health inflation rate should be same as the general rate of inflation, although it never is because entitlement programs keep blowing up the federal balloon because people think health care is free, when it isn't. (blogspot.com)
  • OBAMA: If we don t know the level of subsidies that [Hillary s plan is] going to provide, then you can have a situation, which we are seeing right now in the state of Massachusetts, where people are being fined for not having purchased health care but choose to accept the fine because they still can t afford it, even with the subsidies. (ontheissues.org)
  • However, there are many other people who believe that it is a great thing that the government got involved, and created programs to register for mandatory health-care. (ipl.org)
  • Health care is only available to people who have health insurance or have health care through a public program or those that can afford to pay out of pocket. (ipl.org)
  • The world saw the U.S. "health disadvantage" firsthand during the COVID-19 pandemic, when more people died from the virus in the United States than in any other country and when U.S. death rates were starkly higher among people of color. (americanprogress.org)
  • By making the change on its own, New York would risk becoming a magnet for people from other states and countries in need of costly care. (empirecenter.org)
  • The consequence is that when people shop for insurance, when their employers shop for insurance they weigh the benefit of a fancier insurance plan against 70, 60 or maybe even 50-cents of the cost. (pov.org)
  • It gives people a sense of what is at stake when we make decisions about health care. (thenation.com)
  • Romney made clear that Trump claims that the United States is testing more people per capita than other countries - like South Korea - are misleading because South Korea tested more people early on, successfully curbing the outbreak. (demcastusa.com)
  • In Pittsburgh now people have a lot more choices - and decisions - to make when it comes to their health care. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • Its strength will be recognised only in the combined efforts of all parties, working towards a common goal: the improvement of the health of Cook Islands people by reducing harm from tobacco use and exposure to second-hand smoke. (who.int)
  • 6 The decline in U.S. health status, however, began decades ago in the 1980s. (americanprogress.org)
  • Over the past four decades, they have enacted a series of federal and state restrictions that may seem reasonable at first glance, but in fact interfere with women's personal decisions and make it impossible for many to end a pregnancy. (democracyjournal.org)
  • How do we achieve affordable, quality health care? (povertyactionlab.org)
  • The quality of health care delivered to adults in the United States. (jamanetwork.com)
  • We all know there is much debate on the crisis of healthcare in this country, but I firmly believe that our nation has the power to ensure that quality healthcare is affordable and accessible to every single American. (dailyinterview.net)
  • Wilensky says some insurance companies are responding by building more efficient networks of high-quality providers. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • and (4) reliable health and supply systems (ensuring efficiency, accessibility and quality). (who.int)
  • Diabetes Quality of Care and Maintenance in New England: Can Cross-State Collaboration Move Us Forward? (cdc.gov)
  • This report was prepared under contract #HHSP23320100025W1 between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP) and the Urban Institute. (hhs.gov)
  • Their "ten year plan" addresses issues with the ageing population, and promotes integration of health and social care services. (rpc.co.uk)
  • The United States spent $2.4 trillion on health care in 2008, according to National Health Expenditure Projections, 2008-2018 , a report issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (aaup.org)
  • Senator Arlen Specter and the health and human services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, were heckled and booed in Philadelphia on Sunday. (shadowproof.com)
  • Several states have jumped at the opportunity to get "free money" to provide more government services. (alec.org)
  • While the U.S. is an outlier for health spending, its spending looks more similar to that of other countries when health spending is combined with spending on other social services (such as cash assistance and other support for the elderly, poor, unemployed, and other disadvantaged or vulnerable populations). (healthsystemtracker.org)
  • La présente étude tente de combler cette lacune en puisant à plusieurs sources de données comme l'Enquête longitudinale nationale sur les enfants et les jeunes (ELNEJ), l'Enquête nationale sur la garde d'enfants (ENGE), l'Enquête sur les dépenses des ménages (EDM) et quelques enquêtes québécoises et canadiennes sur la qua- lité des services. (irpp.org)
  • Elle apporte ainsi un éclairage nouveau sur la garde non-parentale au Canada, en termes d'utilisa- tion, de dépenses et de qualité des services utilisées. (irpp.org)
  • WHO continues to promote national drug policies and the concept of essential drugs as proven strategies for securing integrated and sustainable supply systems and services for such drugs. (who.int)
  • Momentum is building for public and private insurance to cover over-the-counter contraception. (politico.com)
  • Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have very different stances on how to handle health insurance. (ibtimes.com)
  • The official, who spoke on condition he not be named, said State Department staff had made such a recommendation to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has yet to make a decision on the matter although one was likely soon. (blogspot.com)
  • At the end of 1999, 66 countries had introduced official national drug policies within the past 10 years, and a further 41 countries were developing such policies, or had developed them more than 10 years ago. (who.int)
  • In early 2001, after a five-year global consultative process, the text of the second edition of Guidelines for developing national drug policies was finalized. (who.int)
  • In the Philippines, a regional course allowed countries to share their current economic and political perspectives of health systems, thereby encouraging them to update their national drug policies. (who.int)
  • Although availability of essential medicines is one of the most important objectives of national medicines policies, the unavailability of essential medicines remains a major problem. (who.int)
  • Now the Republicans have an alternative, the American Health Care Act . (vox.com)
  • GOP aides on the Hill and Republicans on K Street" are urging America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) - the insurers' lobbying arm - "to get tougher," Politico reports. (shadowproof.com)
  • The first is the plague that is the 'birther movement,' the apparently contagious delusion primarily afflicting Southern Republicans that President Obama was not born in the United States. (shadowproof.com)
  • The average employer-sponsored health plan now costs around $12,000, and it's that that is the engine behind the problem of uninsurance and the problem of affordability of health care. (pov.org)
  • The AAA 2018 Convention held April 18-21 in Nashville was a breath of fresh air for the organization-even with some of the heated debate that the organization's Board of Directors encountered as a result of not endorsing the recently introduced Patient Care Choice Act (PCCA). (hearingreview.com)
  • The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 4, 2008. (wikipedia.org)
  • Obama won a decisive victory over McCain, winning the Electoral College and the popular vote by a sizable margin, including states that had not voted for the Democratic presidential candidate since 1976 (North Carolina) and 1964 (Indiana, Virginia, and Nebraska's 2nd congressional district). (wikipedia.org)
  • Speaker of the House Paul Ryan's earlier template for the legislation makes the case concisely: The states "should be empowered to make the right tradeoffs between consumer protections and individual choice, not regulators in Washington. (vox.com)
  • We review the record and conclude that she deserves plenty of credit, both for the passage of the State Children s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) legislation and for pushing outreach efforts to translate the law into reality. (ontheissues.org)
  • If you care about the affordability and availability of healthy food and clean drinking water, here is what you need to know about the massive piece of legislation that guides federal agriculture policy. (civileats.com)
  • This was, incidentally, precisely what the war-weary nation wanted to hear: the public response was jubilant, the "Beveridge Report" rapidly became a bestseller, and - following Labor's landslide victory in 1945 - Parliament passed legislation creating the National Health Service (NHS). (truthout.org)
  • The central elements of the health-care debate can frame how the academic community approaches widening and accelerating the flow of scholarly journal content so all can benefit from it. (aaup.org)
  • Going forward, SBMs can become even more active facilitators of innovation, driving improvements internally while adopting successful tools, approaches, models, and goals from other states. (4sighthealth.com)
  • 2022). The approach taken here to quantify cumulative environmental burden includes assessments of both features of the environment that contribute to good health (salutogenic features) and features of the environment that may be detrimental to human health (pathogenic features). (cdc.gov)
  • Obama became the first African American to be elected to the presidency, as well as being only the third sitting United States senator elected president, joining Warren G. Harding and John F. Kennedy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Could you begin by telling us briefly what is Senator McCain's overall philosophical approach to addressing health care if he becomes president? (pov.org)
  • Booed, jeered and occasionally cheered in a raucous session with the public, a Democratic senator said Monday that other lawmakers can expect the same as they face voters on the divisive issue of overhauling health care. (shadowproof.com)
  • and served 14 years as a state Senator. (dailyinterview.net)
  • As I state Senator, I took on finding a way to get affordable health insurance to the children of working parents. (dailyinterview.net)
  • Affordability and accessibility are the focus both within the United States and abroad, and many consumers are experiencing success in independently determining their own needs, becoming more active partners in health diagnosis, and even treatment. (hearingreview.com)
  • Such programs, like the United States' Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program, provide financial aid to workers who lose their jobs or experience a reduction in their wages due to increased trade. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The Boston Globe ran a story with the headline, Clinton role in health programs disputed. (ontheissues.org)
  • In 2014, these last two programs accounted for 30 percent of the population 1 and 37 percent of national health expenditures. (empirecenter.org)
  • Oklahoma has shown that it can both a) innovate health care, and b) uphold the principles of federalism by developing its own health care programs for low income residents. (alec.org)
  • By accepting federal support for these programs, states are allowing the federal government to overtake state powers. (alec.org)
  • Democrats are claiming a win for domestic programs-the deal eases previous spending limitations on programs that include everything from rural broadband to the National Institutes of Health. (nacubo.org)
  • $4 Billion Over Two Years for Higher Ed. Lawmakers included "$2 billion for FY18 and $2 billion FY19 for student-centered programs that aid college completion and affordability, including those that help police officers, teachers and firefighters. (nacubo.org)