News tagged with uninsured americans
U.S. gives states more time to set up health insurance exchanges
(HealthDay)—The Obama administration is giving states additional time to set up so-called health insurance exchanges, a key element of the 2010 health reform law designed to bring coverage to an estimated ...
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Jan 15, 2013 |
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Time for states to decide on health care exchanges
(AP)—Friday is decision day for states to notify Washington if they will run their own insurance markets under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
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Dec 14, 2012 |
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Newly insured patients may have trouble finding primary care physicians
now assured by the re-election of President Obama – is expected to result in up to 50 million currently uninsured Americans acquiring some type of health insurance coverage. But a study by researchers at the Mongan Institute ...
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Nov 26, 2012 |
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Health reform 2.0: states balking at new insurance exchanges
(HealthDay)—Under the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration's controversial reform of health care, states are supposed to assist uninsured Americans in buying health coverage by setting up so-called ...
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Sep 19, 2012 |
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Critically ill uninsured Americans still at risk of being turned away from hospitals despite law
Despite a twenty-five year old law that bans "patient dumping" the practice continues to put uninsured Americans at risk, according to a national team of researchers led by a professor at the George Washington School of Public ...
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Aug 06, 2012 |
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No cure in sight for US health care costs
"Every time I see what I pay for me and my family's health it makes me sick," says Fiona, a 46-year-old mother of two who -- unlike some 50 million Americans -- actually has health insurance.
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Jun 28, 2012 |
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People experiencing mental distress less likely to have health insurance
People with frequent mental distress are markedly more likely that than those with frequent physical distress to lack health insurance, according to research appearing the October issue of Psychiatric Services, a journal ...
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Oct 04, 2011 |
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Outcomes for cardiac valve procedure patients are affected by insurance status
The type of primary insurance patients carry affects outcomes of cardiac valve operations in the United States according to a study in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. As a result, the ty ...
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Jul 06, 2011 |
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Will minorities be left out of health care law provision?
Hospitals and physician practices that form care-coordinating networks called "Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)," under provisions of the new health-care law could reap cost-savings and other benefits. However, experts ...
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Apr 26, 2011 |
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