doi:10.2139/ssrn.3294046health lawhealth policypublic healthIf single-payer health care is ever to become a reality in the United States, it will very likely be pioneered by a state government, much like Canada's single-Social Science Electronic Publishing...
2022. At this time, theFamilies First Coronavirus Response Act, which was signed by former President Donald Trump in March 2020 and prevents states from removing Medicaid recipients during a public health emergency
On “America’s Newsroom” on Tuesday, Siegel elaborated on that point, referencing the Canadian single-payer health system because he said it’s a model as to how Medicare-for-all would likely operate in the United States. “Twenty weeks between the time you see your primary care doctor li...
Medicaid Home Care Benefits for the Aging As of March 2024, all 50 states and D.C. have at least one program that provides assistance to elderly individuals living outside of nursing homes. Be that at home, in adult day care, in adult foster care, or assisted living. Most states offer...
Thirty-five states did not cover low-vision aids such as magnifiers and loupes. "Visual impairment can be corrected with glasses in most instances, but not all. Particularly among older adults, lack of coverage for low vision aids may be an important gap," said Lipton. ...
Initially, the ACA mandated that all state Medicaid programs would have to be extended to provide medical coverage to nearly all low-income groups. However, the Supreme Court rejected that part of the act in 2012, leaving the door open for states to make their own decision on whether they ...
…into increasing their contributions to Medicaid—the national health insurance program for the poor, jointly funded by the federal government and the states—by revising eligibility requirements to add up to 17 million beneficiaries to the program by 2022. The court also considered, as a preliminar...
National Center for Health Statistics. Mortality—All County, Micro-Data and Compressed, 2001-2017, for All States, as Compiled From Data Provided by the 57 Vital Statistics Jurisdictions Through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics; 2017....
states are required to offer Medicaid to all persons on public assistance. Aside from this, and within broad federal guidelines, the individual states determine the eligibility guidelines for enrollment in their own programs, with Medicaid generally offered to persons whose incomes andassetsfall below ...
In the winter of 1990, we surveyed all states and the District of Columbia to ascertain Medicaid policies on screening mammography and Pap smear--two critical preventive cancer screens for women. Forty-four state Medicaid programs cover screening mammography and all 51 jurisdictions cover Pap smear ...