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The Massachusetts Avenue of health reform

The Health Policy Exchange

In contrast to the personality-driven path that Lyndon Johnson took to navigate legislative obstacles to Medicare and Medicaid, former management consultant Mitt Romney charted a decidedly different course to expanding health insurance when he became governor of Massachusetts in 2003. It was one thing to ask drivers to buy car insurance.

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PRESS RELEASE: Coalition Sues to Block Trump Administration’s Affordable Care Act Rollback that Threatens Health Care Access for More than Two Million Americans

Doctors for America

The lawsuit challenges a newly finalized rule that imposes surprise fees, weakens coverage standards, and creates bureaucratic burdens for people trying to access ACA health insurance. The policy would disproportionately harm low-income families, communities of color, and patients with chronic or serious medical needs.

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Green Practice News – The Climate Issue June 2025

My Green Doctor

We hope you will discover resources to share with your family as well! Helping healthcare professionals to educate their patients on these topics so that patients and families can protect themselves. Here we suggest steps that healthcare managers and clinicians can take to protect their patents. This eight-minute surveys is anonymous.

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Legislative passage of Medicare

The Health Policy Exchange

health care legislation until the 2010 Affordable Care Act. The legislative passage of Medicare was the subject of the first of a series of monthly one-hour health policy seminars for Family Medicine fellows and residents at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Know when to compromise and know when to push. Pass the credit.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

So in 2010, there were about 150,000 incarcerated people in California. But when we look at people over the age of 55, 55 and older, we had about 11,000 in 2010, and now we have 18,000 people aged 55 and older. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. So we’ve gone from 150,000 to 100,000.

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Ensuring the ACA Contraceptive Mandate Meets the Original Intention of Congress

FDA Law

The imposition of insurance-related hurdles beyond FDA approval, such as time-consuming prior authorizations or costly co-payments, can impede access to critical health care, such as contraceptives. In some instances, however, this is only the first hurdle to make innovative products available to patients. 300gg-13(a)(4).

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

Kathleen 03:47 I think any of us who’ve spent any time in nursing homes have spent time working in a nursing home setting, have visited, had family members in nursing homes and looked around and seen the population there. So we see a lot of problems with symptom management, a lot of family conflict. That’s a big question.