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First Opinion

Opinion: Medicaid during incarceration: a step toward health equity

20.02.2023

As a physician caring for chronically ill individuals recently released from incarceration, I’ve become accustomed to working as a detective of sorts, trying to piece together the care they received …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Beyond Medicare and Social Security: Cutting Medicaid after the pandemic would be political madness

15.02.2023

During his State of the Union address, President Biden called out Republican proposals to cut Social Security and Medicare in their quest to reduce federal spending. Republican lawmakers in the …

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Health Tech

Town Hall Ventures’ Andy Slavitt on how to invest in Medicaid and health tech

31.01.2023

SAN FRANCISCO — Part of Andy Slavitt’s core mission at Town Hall Ventures is proving that health tech companies can make a viable business out of reaching low-income people who …

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Coronavirus

After nine months, an update on NIH’s long Covid research

22.12.2022

You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox. Pandemic response gets …

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Health

Amid dire maternal mortality rates, Congress falls short on Medicaid postpartum care

20.12.2022

Last week, the state of Texas issued a long-awaited report that found at least 118 women in the state died from causes related to pregnancy in 2019. Most of those …

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Coronavirus

Congress reaches major health policy deal on Medicare, Medicaid, and pandemic preparedness

19.12.2022

WASHINGTON — Leaders in Congress have reached a sweeping deal to ease Medicare pay cuts to doctors, make major changes to post-pandemic Medicaid policy, and to help prepare for future pandemics. …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Ensuring food security and health beyond the Covid-19 public health emergency

18.10.2022

Expansions to social safety net programs during Covid-19 have been essential for low-income Americans hit hard by the pandemic. But the stabilizing impact of these expansions will be at risk …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Hospital financing in black and white

20.09.2022

During our training as doctors, we have rotated through safety-net hospitals, elite academic medical centers, and private clinics. The resources for patient care and comfort were sumptuous in some facilities, …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Pursuit of profits is driving drug companies to break the 340B law

10.06.2022

Seventeen drug companies, including some of the world’s largest, are flouting a 30-year-old federal program that supports hospitals serving patients with low incomes and those who live in rural communities. …

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