Attention, Walmart Patients
By KIM BELLARD
When Walmart announced earlier this summer that it was opening an insurance agency to sell Medicare-related products and services plans, I thought, “that’s it?” When Walmart announced later in the summer that it was partnering (first with Microsoft, then with Oracle) in the bid to buy TikTok, I thought, “well, isn’t that interesting?” And when Walmart announced a few days ago that it was partnering with Clover Health to offer Medicare Advantage plans, I thought: “it’s about time.”
You know Walmart. 265 million people (worldwide) shop at its stores each week. ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Kim Bellard Walmart Source Type: blogs
The Low ‐Income Housing Tax Credits Scam
Randal O'TooleSince 1986,low ‐income housing tax credits (LIHTCs) are the main way in which the federal government tries to increase the amount of affordable housing for low ‐income families. Yet they have become an enormous scam that allows non‐profit organizations such as Habitat for Humanity to pad their budgets building expensive housing that is mostly rented to middle‐income people.As described in this2017 Cato Institute bulletin, the Internal Revenue Service allocates tax credits to state housing agencies each year. The agencies then give them to developers that are often non ‐profit org...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 6, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Randal O ' Toole Source Type: blogs
Voter Mobilization: A Powerful Tool for Health Equity
As voiced by the late Congressman John Lewis, “The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have to make change in a democratic society.” For health care professionals, it is also a powerful tool for helping our patients and their families make change in their communities. Together, we must empower our colleagues and patients to vote.
Voting and health are inherently linked, as discussed by Gordon in his 2016 Academic Medicine article, “How Can Physicians Educate Patients About Health Care Policy Issues?” In this article, Gordon notes how voting is our primary means of selecting the government leaders whose ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - October 6, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective health equity patients voter moblization Source Type: blogs
Colleges Shouldn ’t Be Able to Get Away with Violating Student Speech Rights
Ilya Shapiro andMichael CollinsCollege is a time to think, to learn, to challenge others ’ ideas, and to have your ideas challenged in turn. So thought Chike Uzuegbunam when he attempted to share his religious ideas with fellow students and ran into Georgia Gwinnett College’s “speech zone” policy.Chike decided to share his beliefs, through one ‐on‐one conversations and handouts, in a large plaza outside the library. Campus police ordered him to stop. They informed him that he could only speak in designated “speech zones.” Chike applied for permission to use a zone, but could only speak ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 30, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Ilya Shapiro, Michael Collins Source Type: blogs
$1 Hearing Aid for Age-Related Hearing Loss
Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed an ultra low-cost hearing aid, for which all the components cost in total less than $1. Designed to be worn by people with age-related hearing loss, the technology provides much of the functionality of conventional hearing aids, but at a tiny fraction of the price. The device may represent a lifeline for hundreds of millions of people worldwide who need a hearing aid but can’t afford one.
Age-related hearing loss is very common, and it can be isolating for older people. “The ability to hear makes a critical quality-of-life difference, especially to older people who may have...
Source: Medgadget - September 28, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: ENT Geriatrics Rehab Source Type: blogs
Social Solidarity in Health Care
Erin C. Fuse Brown (Georgia State University), Matthew B. Lawrence (Emory University), Elizabeth Y. McCuskey (University of Massachusetts), Lindsay F. Wiley (American University), Social Solidarity in Health Care, American-Style, 48 J. L. Med.& Ethics (Forthcoming, 2020): The Affordable Care... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - September 24, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Is Disaster Aid Political?
E. Frank Stephenson andPeter Van DorenIn the summer issue ofRegulation, Steve Horwitz and E. Frank Stephenson published anarticle summarizing research on the long history of political considerations in the allocation of disaster relief. Several papers document New Deal era aid being steered to swing states; a similar pattern has been found more recently for presidential disaster declarations.Two recent articles suggest the mixing of politics and disaster aid by the Trump administration. TheNew York Times,reports that the Government Accountability Office found that the Trump administration has directed a dispropor...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 23, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: E. Frank Stephenson, Peter Van Doren Source Type: blogs
Georgia: From COVID-19 to a Critical Test of Democracy
Georgia has successfully dealt with the COVID-19 outbreak but now must meet the task of conducting free, fair, and transparent parliamentary elections on October 31 and dealing with the economic impacts of the pandemic. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - September 22, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Kenneth Yalowitz; John Tefft; William Courtney Source Type: blogs
Will COVID-19 Force The South To Finally Confront Structural Racism Within Their Medicaid Programs?
By MIKE MAGEE
If you would like to visit the meeting place of America’s two great contemporary pandemics –COVID-19 and structural racism – you need only visit America’s Nursing Homes.
This should come as no surprise to Medical Historians familiar with our Medicaid program. Prejudice and bias were baked in well before the signing of Medicaid and Medicare on July 30, 1965.
President Kennedy’s efforting on behalf of health coverage expansion met stiff resistance from the American Medical Association and Southern states in 1960. Part of their strategic pushback was the endorsement of a state-run an...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Medicaid Mike Magee structural racism Source Type: blogs
There Seems To Be A Lot Of News And Reviews In The Telehealth Space This Week.
Here are a few I have noticed. First – we have a couple of review articles… Telehealth: call for formal clinical governance framework Jeetendra Mathur
Georgia Zammit
Grant Phelps Issue 34 / 31 August 2020 TELEHEALTH can be defined as providing health care, including preventive, diagnostic and treatment services, by using informati on and communication technologies such as videoconferencing, electronic messaging and telephone calls (hereand here). In recent years, with the increasing use of technology in health care, the provision of health care services has seen a transition away from traditional face-to-face consultat...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 10, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
A Pandemic Meets a Housing Crisis
Courtney Anderson (Georgia State University), A Pandemic Meets a Housing Crisis, Assessing Legal Responses to COVID-19. Boston: Public Health Law Watch (2020): Housing instability in the United States has been exacerbating health disparities and causing worse health outcomes for low-income... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - September 10, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
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Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - September 9, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Infectious Diseases Modeling Training Source Type: blogs
There Seems To Be A Lot Of News And Reviews In The Telehealth Space This Week.
Here are a few I have noticed. First – we have a couple of review articles… Telehealth: call for formal clinical governance framework Jeetendra Mathur
Georgia Zammit
Grant Phelps Issue 34 / 31 August 2020 TELEHEALTH can be defined as providing health care, including preventive, diagnostic and treatment services, by using informati on and communication technologies such as videoconferencing, electronic messaging and telephone calls (hereand here). In recent years, with the increasing use of technology in health care, the provision of health care services has seen a transition away from traditional face-to-face consultat...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 8, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Private Insurance Limits and Responses
Elizabeth Weeks (University of Georgia), Private Insurance Limits and Responses, U. Georgia School of Law Legal Stud. Research Paper No. 2020-23: The COVID-19 pandemic exposed a number of existing flaws in the United States ’ patchwork approach to paying for and... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - September 4, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
