A Health Care Proposal
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… Read more.
Help for rural communities
Imagine you get into a car accident in a rural area. It will take first responders and the ambulance 8 minutes longer than it does in urban areas to arrive. And then, it will… Read more.
08.17.2011 / / Insights Blog
How the Affordable Care Act is helping small businesses
You desperately want to change careers, but don’t want to risk it knowing you may lose your health insurance. You’ve thought about heading out on your own, but you know you couldn’t afford insurance… Read more.
08.11.2011 / / Insights Blog
Giving Babies and New Mothers an Healthy Start
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… Read more.
08.04.2011 / / Insights Blog
IOM Preventive Care Recommendations: Helping Victims and Survivors of Domestic Violence
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… Read more.
08.03.2011 /
A win for women
Last month, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommended that a range of benefits essential to women’s health be included as preventive benefits and therefore offered free of charge in all new health plans. We’re… Read more.
08.02.2011 / / Insights Blog
IOM Preventive Care Recommendations: Beyond Contraception
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… Read more.
07.27.2011 / / Insights Blog
Contraception is Prevention!
Since the passage of the health reform law, prevention has become a much talked about issue. We all know that a lot of pain, suffering, and money could be saved with good prevention strategies,… Read more.
07.20.2011 /
Unemployed young job seekers no longer have to worry about health care
Historically, young adults have been among the most likely to go without health insurance in the country. An astounding 13.7 million people between the ages of 19 and 29 were uninsured in 2008. Many lost coverage… Read more.
07.19.2011 / / Insights Blog
HHS announces new investment in school-based health centers
Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced awards of $95 million to 278 school-based health centers across the country. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, along with Education Secretary Arne Duncan, made the… Read more.
07.19.2011 / / Insights Blog
Rick Santorum’s troubling connection
Rick Santorum, a former U.S. Senator for Pennsylvania, wants to be the Republican nominee to run against President Obama next year. Unfortunately for him, he’s also embroiled in a health care scandal—this one involving… Read more.
07.14.2011 /
4th of July and health reform
Living 14 hours away from home, I find myself nostalgic for my childhood days in Mississippi, particularly in the summertime. As we approach July, I often reflect on hanging out with friends and family… Read more.
07.01.2011 / / Insights Blog
A Big (Freaking) Deal
Today’s decision by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals is, as the Vice President might say, a big (freaking) deal. The court ruled that the individual responsibility provision of the Affordable Care Act is constitutional. It’s… Read more.
06.30.2011 / / Insights Blog
6th Circuit Court rules Affordable Care Act is constitutional
The 6th Circuit Court of the United States ruled today that the individual responsibility provision of the Affordable Care Act is constitutional. In their decision, the court writes “We find that the minimum coverage provision… Read more.
06.29.2011 / / Insights Blog
A health care heist
Over the past few years, we’ve told you some truly bizarre stories about what people do in search of affordable health care. One woman got married to a man she barely knew to get… Read more.
06.22.2011 / / Insights Blog
My 15 Year Old Patient Died Because His Dad Was Unemployed
This blog was written by Dr. Zaneb Beams and originally posted on Doctor's for America's blog. It’s different when you lose a patient in private practice. In the ICU, you expect to lose patients. They… Read more.