Singapore: Mixed financing. MediShield Life is a statutory insurance system that covers large hospital bills and certain costly outpatient treatments. (In the U.S., we’d call this catastrophic care.) Premiums for MediShield Life are subsidized by the government based on income and funded by ge...
Health and Human Services Bills Passed Both Houses as of May 8, 2025 Katy Cramer May 9, 2025 Bills have been slow to pass both houses this session. Below are the Health and Human Service related bills that have passed both houses and sent to the Governor as… ...
The Alabama Senate has also passed a bill that would require students in public schools to use bathrooms or changing rooms that match the gender on their original birth certificates. An amendment was attached to the bill, which now has to go back to the House for a vote, prohibiting...
The insurer sued the CMS late last year, arguing that flooding in Broward County should have qualified as an extreme and uncontrollable event relieving Florida Blue from star ratings decreases. A federal judge disagreed. Payer UnitedHealth downgraded by investment banks ...
Texas Legislature Enrolled and Engrossed Behavioral Health Related Bills as of May 21, 2025 Tom Valentine May 21, 2025 Below are the Behavioral Health related bills Texas Insight has been tracking that have passed at least one chamber (Engrossed). The table provides a link to the bill histor...
“There are huge focuses on transparency,” Skelton said, citing the ONC interoperability rule. “You can see that in some of the bills and rules that have been passed recently by the regulatory bodies. COVID-19 has given federal agencies a lot of momentum and the desire to move ...
The healthcare system has gotten worse since Obamacare was passed. The government is responsible for making our healthcare system worse. It has not done the things I have suggested to repair our healthcare system. The Commonwealth Fund (a private progressive foundation) with a focus on health...
Healthcare price transparency laws implemented since 2021 require hospitals and health plans to publish pricing information online and prohibit gag clauses that restrict sharing of cost and claims data.The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 codified these prohibitions, requiring annual attestation of ...
The bills each run about 2,000 pages and cost an estimated $1.8 trillion dollars. Each measure aims at constructing a medical-care morass that taxes and regulates the dispensing of healthcare beneath the oversight of at least 100 new agencies and bureaucratic commissions.[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]We ...
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