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Michigan Budget Includes Significant Investments to Improve Health Care Worker Wages, Family Health – State of Reform

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Michigan Budget Includes Significant Investments to Improve Health Care Worker Wages, Family Health - State of Reform

The Michigan Legislature recently passed the states Budget 2023-2024which designates hundreds of millions of dollars to improve public health. Get information on upcoming events, insights from key stakeholders, and status-specific reports delivered to your inbox! The $82 billion budget is the greater in state history and is expected to be signed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer. … Read more

San Jose agencies help provide health care to low-income residents

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San Jose agencies help provide health care to low-income residents

Patricia Alonso, program director for the Healthier Kids Foundation, poses at the agency’s office in San Jose on Friday, June 16. (Rashel Naranjo/Mosaic) Editor’s note: This story is part of the annual Mosaic Journalism Workshop for Bay Area high school students, a two-week crash course in journalism. Program students report and photograph stories under the … Read more

Law firm suffers a health data breach impacting 40K

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The latest reported breaches are impacting small and medium-sized healthcare organizations

By Jill McKeon July 11, 2023 – Global law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe suffered a data breach affecting more than 40,000 people. The data was originally held by the company because it was working on a case involving a 2020 safety event involving a vision benefits plan. As a result of unauthorized activity on … Read more

Mental health respite facilities are filling care gaps in more than a dozen states

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Kaiser health news

If you or someone you know is experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing “988” or the Crisis Text Line by texting “HOME” to 741741. Aimee Quicke has made repeated trips to emergency rooms, hospitals, behavioral health facilities, and psychiatric lockdowns for mental health crises — including suicidal … Read more

New public health care per 100,000 Oregonians would drive up private insurance costs

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New public health care per 100,000 Oregonians would drive up private insurance costs

A new publicly funded insurance plan is headed for the final step it needs for state approval, despite concerns about the impact it will have on Oregon’s health insurance market for individuals and small businesses. The idea is that the new insurance program is very similar to the Oregon Health Plan, Oregon’s version of Medicaid: … Read more

Stevenson to serve as interim chairman of health policy

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Stevenson to serve as interim chairman of health policy

David Stevenson, PhD, MS by Jill Clendening David Stevenson Jr., PhD, MS, professor of health policy, has been named interim chair of the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He succeeds Melinda Buntin, PhD, the Mike Curb Professor and founding department chair, who joined Johns Hopkins University to establish a Center for … Read more

Transforming everyday health, one app at a time

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Transforming everyday health, one app at a time

Patients, even those with serious conditions, can be empowered to have greater control over their health through a combination of monitoring, awareness and diagnosis along with education, treatment and prevention. With our digital solutions, we can help improve healthcare outcomes for patients, says Timothy Broke-Smith, vice president of global pharmaceutical partnerships at Huma. We accelerate … Read more

Biden takes aim at Trump’s health care policy

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Friday already?! Here’s what we’re looking at as we prepare for lawmakers to return to Washington next week. Biden moves to limit ‘junk insurance’ President Joe Biden on Friday proposed a series of initiatives intended to reduce health care costs, including new restrictions on short-term insurance plans that critics are calling “junk” because they can … Read more

Biden reverses Trump’s expansion of ‘junk’ health care plans.

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President Joe Biden comments on his plan to protect Americans' access to affordable health care in Virginia Beach, Virginia on February 28, 2023.

WASHINGTON President Joe Biden is cracking down on what the White House calls junk health insurance plans, which is less robust, short-term coverage that the Trump administration has expanded as a cheaper alternative to Obamacare plans. Insurance rules set out in the Affordable Care Act, for example, require plans to cover pre-existing conditions. That’s not … Read more

With Medicaid cuts, can Oklahoma avoid the health disaster?

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Medicaid discontinuation began April 30. Nationwide, as many as 24 million are projected to lose Medicaid coverage, according to estimates by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

More than 300,000 Oklahomans are projected to lose their Medicaid coverage in the next nine months, and increased awareness will be the only way to avert a potential health care catastrophe. This is in addition to the more than 623,000 uninsured in Oklahoma. The state must reduce enrollments in its Medicaid program, known as SoonerCare, … Read more