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Countering Systemic
Erasure? ‘Data Justice’ for
Marginalized Communities
Featuring Seciah Aquino, DrPH, MS
Latino Coalition for a Healthy California
Breaking News in Healthcare Reform
Snippets of news & commentary with a special focus on
health policy, Medicare for All & California
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“…health insurance companies would be required to cover all recommended over-the-counter contraception products, such as condoms, spermicide and emergency contraception, without a prescription and at no cost….”
Biden Administration Proposes a Rule to Make Over-The-Counter Birth Control Free
NPR | Chandelis Duster | October 21, 2024
“…our system is driving people into institutions, and worse health outcomes and impoverishing entire generations of people.”
Can Harris’s Proposed ‘At-Home Medicare’ End the Dreaded ‘Spend Down’ of Senior Assets?
The Guardian | Jessica Glenza | October 21, 2024
“Medicare Advantage beneficiaries are being penalized for using the health care that they pay for.”
Medicare Advantage Insurers Are Dropping Plans and Slashing Benefits
Truthout | Emma Curchin | October 20, 2024
“What began as a process in the 1960s to determine whether a patient really needed to be admitted to a hospital is now a sprawling monster obstructing almost any treatment outside of the insurance carrier’s rule book.”
Doctors, Not AI, Should Authorize Treatments
MedPage Today | Naga Kanaparthy, MD, MPH | October 18, 2024
“Almost 60 years later [the] report and the legislation it helped bring about … helps explain how we got to this point, where 38 percent of state prison inmates and up to 80 percent of California’s 67,000 chronically homeless individuals are diagnosed with a mental illness.”
The Forgotten Report That Upended Mental Health Care in California
Capitol Weekly | Dan Morain | October 17, 2024
“Today’s victory belongs to the workers who spoke passionately about the grueling work and the impact on patients when workers cover two or three jobs….”
California Health Care Workers Get a Pay Bump Under a New Minimum Wage Law
Associated Press | Sophie Austin | October 16, 2024
“The prices customers pay for drugs and the payments pharmacies receive are largely determined by companies known as pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, which negotiate rebates from drug manufacturers to insurers. PBMs have been cutting reimbursement rates to boost their own profits….”
Why Your Drug Store Is Closing
CNN | Nathaniel Meyersohn | October 16, 2024
“Increased access to scholarships and other funding is crucial to improving Native representation in medicine and beyond.”
The Lack of Native Doctors Has Deadly Consequences. We Can Fix It.
Truthout | Breckin Horton | October 14, 2024
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