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A California lawmaker introduced a new bill that would force health insurers to disclose denial rates and explain those denials as anger grows over rising costs and uncovered medical care.
State lawmakers have introduced a slew of bills that seek to advance policies supported by new HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his "Make America Healthy Again" platform.
But to deeply succeed, it will need to become an entrenched, expansive tool that alters doctor and patient behavior, said Emory Healthcare CEO Dr. Joon Lee. (Today, Emory Healthcare is an Abridge ...
It set the stage for future federal involvement in maternal and child health care. It set up 3,000 child and maternal health care centers, many in rural areas. It funded millions of home visits by nurses to mothers and their infants. One result was the infant mortality rate dropped from 76 deaths per 1000 live births to 68 in 1929. [43]
A 2007 article from The BMJ by Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein strongly argued that the United States' healthcare model delivered inferior care at inflated prices, and further stated: "The poor performance of US health care is directly attributable to reliance on market mechanisms and for-profit firms and should warn other nations ...
A 2001 article in the public health journal Health Affairs studied fifty years of American public opinion of various health care plans and concluded that, while there appears to be general support of a "national health care plan," poll respondents "remain satisfied with their current medical arrangements, do not trust the federal government to ...