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Background: Insulin is life saving for
Prevalence and Risk Factors for Medical Debt and Subsequent Changes in Social Determinants of Health in the US
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CMS Should terminate the Medicare Advantage Program
By Physicians for a National Health Program
August 25, 2022
Medicare Advantage is a program offering private health insurance plans as options to replace traditional Medicare. Medicare
Hospitals That Serve Many Black Patients Have Lower Revenues and Profits: Structural Racism in Hospital Financing
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Journal of General Internal Medicine, August 5, 2022
Abstract
Background: Care for Black
Missing Americans: Early Death in the United States, 1933-2021
By Jacob Bor, Andrew C. Stokes, Julia Raifman, Atheendar Venkataramani, Mary T. Bassett, David Himmelstein, and Steffie Woolhandler
PNAS Nexus, July 12, 2022
Abstract: We assessed how
Health Care Debt In The U.S.
By Lunna Lopes, Audrey Kearney, Alex Montero, Liz Hamel, and Mollyann Brodie
Kaiser Family Foundation, June 16, 2022
Overview
TheĀ KFF Health Care Debt SurveyĀ is part of a broader
Universal healthcare as pandemic preparedness
By Alison P. Galvani, Abhishek Pandey, Pratha Sah, Kenneth ColĆ³n, Gerald Friedman, Travis Campbell, James G. Kahn, Burton H. Singer, and Meagan C. Fitzpatrick
Healthcare and Racial Justice
Developed by the Campaign for NY Health and the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus, May 4, 2022
This report compiles national and New
The Policy Dominance of Universal Health Coverage
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 2, 2022
(Boston)āWhat policy is the best approach for developing health systems in low- and middle-income countries?
Researchers at Boston University School of
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By Ben King, Ph.D., M.P.H.; Anthony Spadaro, M.D., M.P.H.; Gordon Schiff, M.D.; Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio, Ph.D., M.S.; Alison O. Jordan, L.C.S.W.; Lisa Flaherty, Pharm.D., M.P.H.; Wei-Chen
Inequity and the Interstitium: Pushing Back on Disparities in Fibrosing Lung Disease in the US and Canada
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American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care, January 6, 2022
If two patients, one poor and
Racism, Chronic Disease, and Mental Health: Time to Change Our Racialized System of Second-Class Care
By Judith L. Albert, M.D.; Claire M. Cohen, M.D.; Thomas F. Brockmeyer, M.D., Ph.D.; and Ana M. Malinow, M.D.
Healthcare, September 27, 2021
Abstract
In this article, we