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“Already struggling rural hospitals see an increasing financial threat from the steady growth in Medicare Advantage enrollment.”
Rural Hospitals Feel Squeeze from Medicare Advantage
Axios | Arielle Dreher | August 21, 2023
“The proposed changes reflect the new state of play on health care for Republicans, who have turned away from efforts to repeal Obamacare but see high-deductible plans as a way to boost market forces in the system.”
GOP Push to Get More Americans into High-Deductible Health is Dividing Democrats
Politico | Ben Leonard | August 18, 2023
“It is groundbreaking for a system the size of DHS to take this on.”
LA County Goes Big on Integration of Health, Social Care
California Healthcare Foundation | J. Duncan Moore, Jr. | August 17, 2023
“Los Angeles County, with more residents diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease than any other county in the nation — is the U.S. epicenter of a malady that is harming Black Americans at higher rates than any other group.”
Black Angelenos Care for Alzheimer’s Patients — and Each Other
Capital & Main | George B. Sánchez-Tello | August 17, 2023
“…Newsom’s proposal would require counties to spend two-thirds of revenue from the tax on housing and 24/7 services for the state’s severely mentally ill homeless population. That equates to roughly $3.1 billion based on last year’s Mental Health Services Act revenue.”
Gavin Newsom Gives Ground to Critics on His Mental Health Plan. Will Voters Back It?
CalMatters | Kristen Hwang | August 17, 2023
“Every major medical organization in the country agrees that what we are investing in primary healthcare is woefully inadequate…. Providing primary care to all is not only smart healthcare, it is cost-effective healthcare.”
‘Now Is the Time to Act’: Sanders Pushes Bipartisan Bill to Solve Primary Care Crisis
Common Dreams | Julia Conley | August 16, 2023
“…the question is how to move beyond promises of legal protection and build a network to serve more patients.”
States That Protect Transgender Health Care Now Try to Absorb Demand
Associated Press | Jeff McMillan, Hannah Schoenbaum | August 15, 2023
“AdventHealth alleges providers have lost at least $19 billion per year as a direct result of MultiPlan’s anticompetitive agreements with major payers, including UnitedHealth, Aetna, Elevance, Centene, Cigna, Humana and a number of Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers.”
AdventHealth Sues MultiPlan for Alleged ‘Cartel’ with Health Insurers to Fix Prices
Healthcare Dive | Rebecca Pifer | August 14, 2023
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