Going into President Barack Obama's last year in office, progress has stalled on reducing the number of uninsured Americans under his signature health care law, according to a major survey out Thursday.
Jan 7, 2016
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Just six months after opening up health insurance to more low-income people, states saw a huge drop in the amount of care their hospitals provided to uninsured patients, and a rise in care for people with coverage, a new ...
Jan 5, 2016
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The rate of adults without health insurance across the U.S. dropped nearly twice as much as in Texas from 2013 to 2015, according to a new report released today by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and the ...
Dec 17, 2015
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Uninsured patients can be trained to safely and efficiently self-administer long-term intravenous antibiotics, UT Southwestern Medical Center physicians have found, a result that may have profound implications for patient ...
Dec 15, 2015
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Imagine what you could do with $2,000. If you're between 18 and 34, you might travel somewhere fun. Maybe buy a big TV. But would you buy health insurance?
Nov 14, 2015
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Low-income Americans with Medicaid insurance have more awareness and better treatment of chronic diseases, such as high blood pressure, than their uninsured counterparts, a group of Harvard researchers said today. People ...
Nov 12, 2015
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The number of uninsured people in the United States dropped by 8.8 million in 2014, according to a report released Sept. 16 from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Sep 17, 2015
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Stroke victims who use Medicaid or are uninsured were more likely to die, stay hospitalized longer and have worse medical outcomes than patients with private insurance, a study by University of Florida Health researchers ...
Sep 11, 2015
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Nearly a million people signed up for health insurance under President Barack Obama's law even after the official enrollment season ended, helping push the share of uninsured Americans below 10 percent and underscoring how ...
Aug 13, 2015
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I used to bike to work every day in grad school. I lived around 2km away from the hospital I was based at (~ 1.24 miles), so biking was just the most efficient way to get to work every morning. One sunny July morning though, ...
Aug 11, 2015
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