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ow HealtH Insurance FaIled amerIca - IPI

(6 days ago) WEBThe health insurance system has failed America. While health insurers played a role in that failure, most of the blame lies with federal and state government interven-tion and micromanagement—and arguably mismanagement. In essence, the …

https://www.ipi.org/docLib/20181015_HowHealthInsuranceFailedAmericaFinal.pdf

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A Brief History: Universal Health Care Efforts in the US

(3 days ago) WEBWhy did the Progressives fail? Opposition from doctors, labor, insurance companies, and business contributed to the failure of Progressives to achieve compulsory national …

https://pnhp.org/a-brief-history-universal-health-care-efforts-in-the-us/

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Why Americans Don't Have Universal Health Care : …

(Just Now) WEBThe Everlasting Problem (2020) Health care reform supporters participate in a sit-in inside the lobby of a building where …

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/26/1075894757/the-everlasting-problem-2020

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A Century of Health Care Reform in the United States

(Just Now) WEBYet by 1920, the health care reform campaign had failed, the victim of intense opposition (from businesses and the insurance industry, among others), bad …

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1202111

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One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National …

(4 days ago) WEBIn fact, one in eight Americans—43 million people—do not have any health care insurance at all. This book offers a history of America's failed efforts to address …

https://academic.oup.com/book/9529

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COVID-19 Has Revealed America’s Broken Health Care …

(2 days ago) WEBThe COVID-19 pandemic has exposed long-standing system problems of US health care ranging from access barriers, uncontrolled prices and costs, unacceptable quality, widespread disparities and …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0020731420985640

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Learning from Failure in Health Care Reform NEJM

(9 days ago) WEBInterview with Jonathan Oberlander on the lessons of the failed Clinton health care plan of 1993. 9m 47s Download. Since 1994, inaction and incrementalism have governed U.S. health policy, with

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp078201

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The Evolution of Health Insurance in America: A Look at the …

(7 days ago) WEBUltimately, the bill failed due to the large amount of opposition and lack of support from politicians at the time. The issue of a national compulsory health insurance program …

https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1236&context=srhonors_theses

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Is our healthcare system broken? - Harvard Health

(Just Now) WEBHealth insurers may discourage care to hold down costs. Many health insurance companies restrict expensive medications, tests, and other services by …

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-our-healthcare-system-broken-202107132542

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Health Coverage Affordability Crisis 2020 Biennial Survey

(2 days ago) WEBIn the first half of 2020, 43.4 percent of U.S. adults ages 19 to 64 were inadequately insured. This is statistically unchanged from the last time we fielded the …

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2020/aug/looming-crisis-health-coverage-2020-biennial

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Even With Health Insurance, Many Americans Still Struggle With …

(2 days ago) WEBDuring the study period from 2010 to 2017, 6 million people between 20 and 64 years old with private insurance suffered such financial burdens, and their share of …

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/12/934146128/despite-aca-coverage-gains-millions-still-suffer-catastrophic-health-care-costs

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Uninsured Americans Tell Their Stories Commonwealth Fund

(2 days ago) WEBUninsured Americans Tell Their Stories. There is intense debate over what to do about the 44 million Americans shown by U.S. Census data to lack health insurance. But the …

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/other-publication/uninsured-americans-tell-their-stories

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Summary - America’s Uninsured Crisis - NCBI Bookshelf

(5 days ago) WEBIn 2007, 5.9 million more people were uninsured than when the IOM issued its initial report on uninsurance. The uninsured included 8.1 million children and 36.8 million adults ages 18 to 64. In 2007, nearly 1 in 10 children …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK214964/

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What has the pandemic revealed about the US health care system …

(6 days ago) WEBNo doubt, the pandemic reveals the dire need to invest in public-health infrastructure to better monitor and address public-health threats in the future, and to …

https://news.mit.edu/2021/what-has-pandemic-revealed-about-us-health-care-what-needs-change-0405

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The GOP's failed health plan shows Americans have changed how …

(6 days ago) WEBThe defeat of the Republican’s American Health Care Act and the troubles the GOP has had ever since cobbling together a repeal-and-replace alternative signal a …

https://centerforhealthjournalism.org/our-work/insights/gops-failed-health-plan-shows-americans-have-changed-how-they-think-about-health

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Major health insurance companies nearing too big to fail status

(5 days ago) WEBMajor health insurance companies are nearing too big to fail status. Health insurance companies have swelled in both size and scope over the last decade, with …

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/19/health-insurance-companies-uhg-aetna-cigna

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Taking Account of Rising Health Care Costs - The New York Times

(1 days ago) WEBLast year, Mr. Hamby began investigating MultiPlan, a data firm that works with several major health insurance companies, including UnitedHealthcare, Cigna and …

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/insider/medical-insurance-costs.html

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Advancing Racial Equity in U.S. Health Care: State Disparities

(6 days ago) WEBShiwani Mahajan et al., “Trends in Differences in Health Status and Health Care Access and Affordability by Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 1999–2018,” …

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2024/apr/advancing-racial-equity-us-health-care

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Analysis Whatever happened to Biden’s public option?

(Just Now) WEBThe president and his congressional allies were vocal proponents of a government-run alternative to commercial insurance back in 2020. But the health-care …

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/26/whatever-happened-bidens-public-option/

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UnitedHealth says hackers possibly stole large number of …

(4 days ago) WEBThe intrusion at its Change Healthcare unit, which processes about 50% of U.S. medical claims, was one of the worst hacks to hit American healthcare and caused …

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/unitedhealth-says-hack-could-impact-data-substantial-proportion-americans-2024-04-22/

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UnitedHealth says Change hackers stole health data on …

(6 days ago) WEBHealth insurance giant UnitedHealth Group has confirmed that a ransomware attack on its health tech subsidiary Change Healthcare earlier this year resulted in a …

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/22/unitedhealth-change-healthcare-hackers-substantial-proportion-americans/

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY …

(1 days ago) WEBUNITED STATES OF AMERICA : Crim. No. 06-v. : Hon. JOSEPH GIANETTI, JR. : 18 U.S.C. § 1347 and other health care insurers issued insurance checks made …

https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/nj/Press/files/pdffiles/Older/Gianetti%20Information%20final.pdf

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A cheap drug may slow down aging. A study will determine if it …

(1 days ago) WEBStudies suggest people who take metformin for diabetes may be at lower risk for cancer, heart disease and dementia. Now researchers aim to test if it prevents age …

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/04/22/1245872510/a-cheap-drug-may-slow-down-aging-a-study-will-determine-if-it-works

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How Denver Health, city's safety net, fell into dire financial straits

(Just Now) WEBHow Denver Health fell into dire financial straits — and what it would take to resuscitate the city’s safety-net hospital Hospital with mission to serve all has provided …

https://www.denverpost.com/2024/04/28/denver-health-colorado-financial-trouble-safety-net/

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Fact Sheet on FTC’s Proposed Final Noncompete Rule

(6 days ago) WEBReduced health care costs: $74-$194 billion in reduced spending on physician services over the next decade. New business formation: 2.7% increase in the rate of …

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/fact-sheet-ftcs-proposed-final-noncompete-rule

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The Change Healthcare cyberattack is a 'catastrophe' for American

(Just Now) WEBThe critical and vast role that Change, a little-known health technology business, plays within America’s sprawling $4.5 trillion health system has been a …

https://fortune.com/2024/04/23/change-healthcare-cyberattack-unitedhealth-hack-ransomware/

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PE-Owned Health Care Saw Bankruptcy Surge as Playbook Failed

(4 days ago) WEBPrivate equity-owned businesses accounted for a high number of bankruptcies in the health-care sector last year, and another wave of distress looms, …

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-17/pe-owned-health-care-saw-surge-in-2023-bankruptcies-report-says

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FDIC says Republic First Bank is closed by Pennsylvania regulators

(Just Now) WEBThe Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) headquarters in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. US banking watchdogs will next week propose …

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/26/business/regulators-seize-republic-first-bancorp/index.html

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New Jersey Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association

(Just Now) WEBAbout Us. The New Jersey Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association is a statutory entity created in 1992 (with an effective date of January 1, 1991), when the New Jersey …

https://www.njlifega.org/About

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Mutual Benefit Life’s Legacy Includes Buildings of Grandeur

(9 days ago) WEBOn March 6, 1845, Patterson met with Lewis C. Grover to discuss the formation of an insurance company with Thomas B. Segur, Charles S. Macknet, Henry …

https://knowingnewark.npl.org/mutual-benefit-lifes-legacy-includes-buildings-of-grandeur/

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North Bergen, New Jersey ACA Health Insurance Plans

(Just Now) WEBNew Jersey enrollment dates and deadlines. New Jersey residents can apply for Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance plans during the annual Open Enrollment Period or …

https://www.healthmarkets.com/plans/aca-health/new-jersey/north-bergen

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