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The CONNECT for Health Act is reintroduced, again

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A bipartisan group of legislators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies for Health Act – first introduced in 2016 – to expand opportunities and coverage for telehealth through Medicare. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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One in Two Americans with Work-Based Insurance Worries That Healthcare Costs Could Lead to Bankruptcy

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Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S. workers with private insurance more likely report poor access to health care, greater costs of care, and lower satisfaction with care versus people covered by public health insurance plans — whether Medicaid, Medicare, VHA or military coverage. households.

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CONNECT for Health Act reintroduced, would expand telehealth access

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. The act would expand coverage of Medicare telehealth services and make some COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities permanent, among other provisions. Access for Medicare beneficiaries.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

First, consider the big health economics picture painted in the paper US Health Care Spending by Race and Ethnicity. The table arrays data the researchers analyzed from 2002 to 2016, identifying patterns of six types of medical services used by race and age group.

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What We Know We Know About ZIP Codes, Food, and Deaths of Despair – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 3

Health Populi

.” That’s the first sentence of Chapter 7 in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. This data point comes from research published in JAMA in April 2016 on the association between income and life expectancy in the U.S.

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A Tale of Two America’s for Health

Health Populi

The top-line of this national health scorecard is that “deaths of despair” are surging, due to suicide, alcohol, opioids, and other drugs whose use has grown by 50% since 2005 to 2016. The social determinants of health — income and good jobs, using tobacco, and having health insurance — bolster good health.

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Financial Stress Is An Epidemic In America, Everyday Health Finds

Health Populi

This feeling of political stress was uncovered at the time of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election by the American Psychological Association in their Stress In America study, which I discussed here in Health Populi. tomorrow having spent nearly three weeks getting smarter about health and healthcare in various parts of Europe.