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Study: Some Disparities Remain Even With ACA

While the Affordable Care Act has helped to significantly reduce care and access disparities between socioeconomic groups, more work is needed to create true coverage equity, according to a new study from Oregon Health and Sciences University. Between 2012 and 2015, the rate of uninsured visits to community health centers (CHCs) decreased by 68 percent […]

Study: Premature Babies of Color Get Worse Care

Babies dubbed “very low birth weight infants” are born at less than three pounds five ounces—about the size of a cantaloupe. They’re typically many weeks premature, and usually have to spend around the first 50 days of their lives in a neonatal intensive care unit. These babies already start off behind the curve, and the […]

Time for a Plan

Republican candidates got a boost on the eve of last fall’s election when insurers announced big increases in Obamacare premiums for 2017. Unfortunately, the GOP seems intent on making next year’s premium increases even larger. According to the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, the combination of decisions by President Donald Trump and uncertainty about what action […]

Student Who Questioned Training Wins Settlement

FLINT, Mich. — A Michigan college has been ordered to pay a woman’s nursing school tuition after she was dismissed for questioning lessons she says taught students to scare patients into vaccinations. Nichole Rolfe, 35, was awarded about $15,000 on September 11 in a lawsuit against Baker College, the Flint Journal reported. Rolfe sued the […]

Feds Rewriting Rule on Health Care for Transgendered

LOS ANGELES — Jyn Dao is scared. His bottom surgery — needed to realign the female genitalia he was born with to his male identity — is scheduled. But it’s not happening until January. And like many trans men and women, he’s afraid President Trump will soon revoke protections in federal law that ensure his […]

Industry Groups Press Congress on Payments

Payers and ACA supporters view CSR payments as critical to stabilizing the ACA market. Without those payments, insurance companies will flee the individual insurance market or ask for large premium increases. Already, the average individual insurance premiums are expected to increase by about 20% next year. Without those subsidies, the Congressional Budget Office predicted ACA premiums would skyrocket another 20%. […]

Report: Online Ratings of Doctors Are Inadequate

Online physician ratings are a key part of consumer-driven healthcare that is supposed to put individuals in charge of their own care. The idea is that educated consumers will choose the physicians and services that are least expensive and offer the highest quality as possible. The new study found that there was no “significant association […]

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Journal Reports Rise in Low Weight and Premature Births

The rate of preterm births and low birth weight have increased and are the leading cause of newborn deaths in the United States. The authors caution that cuts to Medicaid would seriously jeopardize infant lives. Preterm birth refers to a birth that occurs more than three weeks before the baby is due, or more specifically, […]

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Social Media Provides a Lifeline After Irma

ATLANTA — Worried relatives, generous volunteers, frantic neighbors, even medical providers are turning to social media now that Hurricane Irma wiped out electricity and cell service to communities across Florida, cutting off most contact with remote islands in the Keys. “We all sort of scattered around the country when we evacuated, so we’re trying to […]

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Texans Report Illnesses from Harvey Pollution

GALENA PARK, Texas — Cindy Sanchez began to feel ill while barbecuing just before Harvey’s torrents started pelting this city just east of Houston, along a corridor with the nation’s highest concentration of petrochemical plants. “I started getting really, really bad headaches,” said Sanchez, a 32-year-old housewife. “I never get headaches.” “My husband’s eyes were […]

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“Right to Know” Facts, Not Misinformation

Imagine a law requiring your doctor to give you misleading information about the health risks of a medical procedure. In Louisiana, this is a reality. State law requires physicians to give women seeking abortions inaccurate information about the development of embryos and misleading statements about the health risks of abortion. Louisiana legislators have singled out […]

Many Women Don’t Know Heart Risks

Despite efforts in recent years to change perceptions, heart disease is still largely seen as only a men’s health concern. In a recent study, only 56 percent of women knew that heart disease is the leading cause of death in women in the United States, when in fact, heart disease and stroke kill more women […]

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