Tag: Health

Opinion | Americans on Medicaid Could Soon Lose Health Insurance

April 6, 2022 Sharika Soukup

If there has been a silver lining to this terrible Covid-19 pandemic, it is that the rate of Americans without health insurance dropped to a near historic low, thanks to various federal initiatives connected to the government-declared public health emergency. Now, with the pandemic’s acute phase seemingly drawing to an end, millions of low-income and…

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Postal service reform bill would shift retirees health care costs to Medicare : Shots

April 6, 2022 Sharika Soukup

A US Postal service employee unloads mail at a facility on February 10, 2022 in Houston, Texas. On February 8, the House of Representatives passed the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 (H.R. 3076). The legislation will address operational and financial issues that the agency has been grappling with for years. Brandon Bell/Getty Images hide…

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Parents told teen to ‘suck it up’ when he asked for mental health help before school shooting, police testify

April 5, 2022 Sharika Soukup

ROCHESTER HILLS, MI — Months before Ethan R. Crumbley was accused of opening fire on his classmates in the hallways of Oxford High School, killing four of them, he told a friend he was in the grips of a mental breakdown and needed help. When he told his parents, they rebuffed him, told him to…

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Florida lawmakers seen to strip $561 million from hospital, health care system budgets

April 5, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Florida lawmakers seen to strip 1 million from hospital, health care system budgets

Proposed budget slashes hospital funding Aaron Mesmer reports TAMPA, Fla. – Florida health care system advocates are urging state lawmakers to reconsider budget cuts that could slash hundreds of millions of dollars from hospitals across the state. According to the Florida Hospital Association, the heath care budget proposal in the Florida House of Representatives would…

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When parents get Medicaid, it can benefit the health of their kids too | Columnists

February 28, 2022 Sharika Soukup

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Maithreyi Gopalan, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. Low-income parents who live in states that expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act are 4.7% more likely to say…

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Anti-mandate doctors ‘do not speak for the mainstream of health care’

February 27, 2022 Sharika Soukup

As the Shasta County Board of Supervisors prepares to consider a 10-point COVID-19 declaration brought by a group of physicians opposed to vaccine mandates, another group of doctors supports a different approach. In a letter sent to the supervisors on Wednesday, executives representing Redding’s two main hospitals, major nonprofit medical center and other health facilities…

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More African Americans have gained health insurance following adoption of the Affordable Care Act, HHS report finds

February 25, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Nearly 1 million Black American adults would become eligible for medical insurance if 12 holdout states expanded Medicaid eligibility under the ACA, according to the HHS report. Story continues below advertisement “There’s a clear policy choice that’s being made by those states that runs counter to the interests of a large number of people who…

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Black women overrepresented in health care’s toughest jobs, study says

February 25, 2022 Sharika Soukup

As co-author Janette Dill, an associate professor in the division of health policy and management at the University of Minnesota, put it: “They are taking care of peoples’ bodies, and feeding them, and bathing them, and taking people to the bathroom — it’s very hard physical labor.” Story continues below advertisement Shantonia Jackson, a 52-year-old…

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