When looking for a spouse, many people look for someone trustworthy, respectful, and kind. Others look for someone with wealth and power. And others, like one Florida rabbi, are just looking for someone with an affordable health care premium.
A recent report from Health Affairs shows that increased public health spending and improved practices can help community mortality by reducing the rates of preventable deaths.
Earlier this week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) decided to adopt all of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) eight recommendations for fully covered preventive services. This step is a huge improvement for women’s health—especially because of two services that are included that focus on maternal care. The first is screening for gestational diabetes, and the second is lactation counseling and equipment.
This week, the Department of Health and Human Services took a recommendation from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to add screening and counseling to detect and prevent domestic and interpersonal violence to the list of preventive services that will be free of charge—all thanks to the Affordable Care Act.
House Speaker Boehner’s proposal to raise the debt ceiling has caused a lot of commotion in the last few days. The proposal holds the nation’s economy hostage to Republicans’ unbalanced debt reduction demands and can basically be described as the opposite of Robin Hood: steal from the poor to aid the rich.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently released its recommendations on which services should be added to the list of preventive services new insurance plans must offer at no cost to the patient under the Affordable Care Act.
What matters more to you - helping seniors and people with disabilities afford the health care they need OR making sure that pharmaceutical companies get corporate giveaways?
Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, young adults are now free to pursue the careers and education they want without worrying about how they will pay for their next doctor’s appointment or what will happen if they get sick.
On Tuesday, hundreds of patients, families, and advocates came to D.C. from across the country in buses, planes, and trains with one message for Congress: Medicaid matters!
Many opponents of health reform and expanding access to health care are quick to criticize programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, while, at the same time, reaping the benefits of such programs. As it turns out, Conservative Michele Bachmann, is one such opponent. It has recently been discovered that Michele Bachmann, the vehemently anti-Medicaid GOP presidential contender and congresswoman from Minnesota, has benefited from the more than $137,000 her husband’s mental health clinic has received from Medicaid funds, while advocating for cutting the program.
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