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Caring for the underserved: The National Health Service Corps

The Health Policy Exchange

Currently, the collective impacts of the individual and employer mandates and guaranteed insurance issue provisions of the Affordable Care Act on underserved communities remain uncertain. Are there alternative health policies that could attract primary care and subspecialist physicians to areas where they are most needed?

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Primary care for all Americans

Common Sense Family Doctor

Increasingly, health insurers, private hospitals, and even nonprofits are behaving as though they aim first to extract revenue, and only second to care for people. We should no longer be debating whether or not having health care insurance is better than not having it. Nevertheless, the U.S.

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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

Joseph, the family medicine practice is committed to providing exceptional, affordable, patient-centered primary care in SW Michigan without reliance on insurance companies for payment of services. Family Physicians of St. From the time of its inception until October 2017, Family Physicians of St.

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"Sludge audits" identify obstacles to completing colorectal cancer screening

Common Sense Family Doctor

Paperwork required to sign up for health insurance and to establish care with a practice. Travel to the doctor’s office. Patients with Medicaid insurance or dual Medicare-Medicare coverage were more likely than those with private insurance to report sludge. Wait times.

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Lung cancer screening in primary care: more pragmatic research needed

Common Sense Family Doctor

Despite private and public insurance plans fully covering lung cancer screening in the United States, only 10% to 30% of eligible individuals in were receiving it in a recent state-by-state survey.