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Community Integration: Pushing the Boundaries for a Better World

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Residents and local leaders joined forces to send food and clothing to the island and to welcome newly arrived families to their town. The Holyoke Health Center, in collaboration with the Family Resource Center at Enlace de Familias , played a pivotal role in this local relief effort.

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Medicaid expansion is in the eye of the beholder

The Health Policy Exchange

To the ACA's detractors, Medicaid expansion is a hostile government takeover that must be opposed in principle, regardless of potential benefits of an infusion of federal dollars. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation , more than half of today's 48 million uninsured have incomes below the new Medicaid threshold. Phillips, Jr.

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Nutrition and dietary guidelines: stirring the (policy) pot

The Health Policy Exchange

At first glance, federal nutrition policy seemed to be an unusual topic for our Georgetown Health Policy Seminar for family physicians. Health Policy Fellowship Department of Family Medicine Georgetown University School of Medicine and MyPlate. Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Director, Robert L. Phillips, Jr.

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Tapping the potential applications of mHealth

The Health Policy Exchange

We debated the types of policies that would be most likely to encourage innovations that make a positive difference for individuals and populations. Should state and local governments provide direct grants or tax relief to promising startups? How can we avoid creating "digital divides" that could worsen health disparities?

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The Massachusetts Avenue of health reform

The Health Policy Exchange

At that point, he had not yet committed to the individual health insurance mandate that made his reforms possible but later became a political liability during his Presidential campaigns. Health Policy Fellowship Department of Family Medicine Georgetown University School of Medicine It was one thing to ask drivers to buy car insurance.

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From Numbers to Names: How Concierge Care is Redefining the Doctor-Patient Experience

Concierge Choice Physicians

Many seemed to blame physicians as much as insurers and the government for everything they experience as wrong in healthcare, from long waits to Covid-19. Physicians, particularly primary or family care doctors, value the doctor-patient relationship too. ” Their doctor makes them feel like family.

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Governor’s 2025-26 May Revision Proposes Major Cuts to Healthcare and Undermines Medi-Cal Expansion Commitments

California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

Key Health Care Budget Proposals: Proposed Medi-Cal Cuts and Enrollment Changes Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, is typically funded through a partnership between the state and the federal government. The asset limit for a household would be $2,000 for an individual and $3,000 per couple.