Children insured by Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) were more likely to get preventive medical and dental care than privately insured children in a study that compared access and use of health care ...
Nov 16, 2015
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The majority of patients without health insurance who were hospitalized for heart attack, stroke or coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery experienced catastrophic healthcare expenses before passage of the Affordable ...
Nov 14, 2017
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A federal judge in Texas ruled late Friday that the US health care law known as Obamacare is unconstitutional—a ruling that opposition Democrats vowed to appeal.
Dec 15, 2018
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An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign conducted a two-year study on the efficacy of workplace wellness programs and found that such programs have little impact on employee ...
May 26, 2020
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Living in unabashedly racist communities can shorten the lives of both blacks and whites, according to new research from UC Berkeley.
Sep 7, 2016
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You decide to take a popular colon cancer screening test that can be performed at home, and it comes back positive. A follow-up colonoscopy is scheduled, but then you suddenly receive a large and unexpected medical bill.
Jun 28, 2021
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The Biden's administration's Inflation Reduction Act has been dubbed "game-changing" legislation for seniors on Medicare, as the bill provides a slew of cost-cutting health care measures, including phased-in annual caps on ...
Sep 23, 2022
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Structural racism, mass incarceration, and the widening income gap between rich and poor all feed growing health inequalities in the USA, which the health care system—by its very design and financing - only helps exacerbate, ...
Apr 7, 2017
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(HealthDay)—The American Medical Association (AMA) opposes policies that enable racial housing segregation, according to an article published in the association's AMA Wire.
Aug 2, 2018
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(HealthDay)—The U.S. health care system ranks dead last compared to other industrialized nations when it comes to affordability and patient access, according to a new survey.
Oct 23, 2014
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