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  2. Healthcare reform debate in the United States - Wikipedia

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    One factor perpetuating inefficiencies in health care is a lack of clarity regarding the cost of health insurance and who bears that cost, especially employment-based health insurance. Employers' payments for employment-based health insurance and nearly all payments by employees for that insurance are excluded from individual income and payroll ...

  3. Clinton health care plan of 1993 - Wikipedia

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    The plan specified which benefits must be offered; a National Health Board to oversee the quality of health care services; enhanced physician training; the creation of model information systems; federal funding in the case of the insolvency of state programs; rural health programs; long-term care programs; coverage for abortions, with a ...

  4. Healthcare reform in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Healthcare reform in the United States has had a long history.Reforms have often been proposed but have rarely been accomplished. In 2010, landmark reform was passed through two federal statutes: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), signed March 23, 2010, [1] [2] and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (), which amended the PPACA and became law on March ...

  5. History of health care reform in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Health care reform was a major concern of the Bill Clinton administration headed up by First Lady Hillary Clinton. The 1993 Clinton health care plan included mandatory enrollment in a health insurance plan, subsidies to guarantee affordability across all income ranges, and the establishment of health alliances in each state. Every citizen or ...

  6. The spotlight is on health insurance companies. Patients are ...

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    For many, the cost of life-saving care is too high, and medical debt is the No. 1 cause of bankruptcy in America. That is to say nothing of the emotional labor of navigating the complex system.

  7. Why Americans pay so much more for health care in 2024 - AOL

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    A 2023 analysis by the Commonwealth Fund, a health care research nonprofit, identified five key components of excess health spending in the United States, compared with other affluent nations:

  8. Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act - Wikipedia

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    Traditional state-based legal protections for such health care quality improvement activities, collectively known as peer review protections, are limited in scope: They do not exist in all States; typically they only apply to peer review in hospitals and do not cover other health care settings, and seldom enable health care systems to pool data ...

  9. 'Deny, deny, deny': By rejecting claims, Medicare Advantage ...

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    Some 31 million Americans have Medicare Advantage plans. But because they routinely deny coverage for necessary care, they threaten rural hospitals, say some CEOS.