In September 2018, a government report was released and was largely ignored by the mainstream press. Diane Archer The report from the Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seductively titled – Medicare Advantage Appeal Outcomes and Audit Findings Raise Concerns About Service and Payment Denials – found that Medicare Advantage…
Poor Americans More Likely to Have Respiratory Problems, Study Finds
Despite improvements in air quality and other advances, low-income Americans more often have asthma, lung disease and related illnesses.
Even when scientists controlled for the ill health effects of higher smoking rates among low-income individuals, a respiratory health gap persisted between rich and poor Americans.Credit.Susan L. Angstadt/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle, via Getty Images
May 28, 2021Updated 2:51 p.m. ET
In recent decades, air quality has improved in the United States, smoking rates have plummeted and government safety regulations have reduced exposure to workplace pollutants. But rich and poor Americans have not benefited equally, scientists reported in a paper on Friday.
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She was a mother of the mountains.
For decades, Eula Hall cared for her people in Appalachian Kentucky, helping heal the sick and give voice to the vulnerable.
From the day nearly a half-century ago when she started her Mud Creek Clinic in Grethel until her death on Saturday at age 93, her mission was to improve health in Eastern Kentucky from the ground up. And that was no easy task in one of the most impoverished places in America, where people die of cancer, heart disease, addiction and other ailments at some of the nation s highest rates.
She was an Appalachian legend, described as a saint by a congressman recognizable by the halo of gray and white hair framing her face.
Medicare for All Would Put Even More Strain on Doctors | Opinion Sally C. Pipes
, President and CEO, Pacific Research Institute On 4/28/21 at 7:00 AM EDT
Medicare for All is back on Congress s agenda. More than 100 House Democrats, led by Reps. Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Debbie Dingell of Michigan, are behind a bill that would outlaw private insurance and enroll every American in a government-run health plan within two years.
They re joined by a surprisingly large share of health care professionals. National Nurses United, Physicians for a National Health Program and the American College of Physicians the nation s second-largest doctors group have all come out in favor of a government takeover of the country s health insurance system.