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The association between inability to afford to see a doctor and days of poor physical or mental health among adults in Ohio. [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: This study assessed the association between the inability to afford to see a doctor and days of poor physical or mental health among adults in Ohio. An interaction was added to the regression model to estimate if insurance type moderated the effect.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. So if you think about dementia, it’s on the intersection of aging stigma and mental health stigma. That never happens in CMS and other health insurance.

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Republican Megabill Will Mean Higher Health Costs for Many Americans

Physician's Weekly

President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” cuts federal spending on Medicaid and Affordable Care Act marketplaces by about $1 trillion over a decade, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, threatening the physical and financial health of tens of millions of Americans.

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‘I Am Going Through Hell’: Job Loss, Mental Health, and the Fate of Federal Workers

Physicians News Digest

Elon Musk — who is the world’s richest person and whose Department of Government Efficiency, created by a Trump executive order, is infiltrating federal agencies and spearheading mass firings — has claimed without evidence that “there are a number of people on the government payroll who are dead” and others “who are not real people.”