Schumer says Democrats “blew the opportunity the American people gave them” in the 2008 elections, a Democratic landslide, by focusing on healthcare reform instead of legislation to boost the middle class. “After passing the stimulus, Democrats should have continued to propose middle class-oriente...
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Reports that the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM) has released a report detailing how the lack of insurance affects individuals' health in the United States. Statistics on ...
Unmet Health Needs of Uninsured Adults in the United States. Compares nationally representative estimates of the unmet health needs of uninsured and insured adults, particularly among persons with major health risks ... Ayanian,Z John,Weissman,... - 《Jama Journal of the American Medical Association...
The statistics are a mixed bag for providers though. Lower uninsured rates could mean less uncompensated care costs. However, public coverage programs like Medicare and Medicaid pay providers significantly less than the total cost of care for treating those beneficiaries. ...
June 2007 iHEA 2007 6th World Congress: Explorations in Health Economics Paper Abstract: The absence of universal health care in the U.S. is noteworthy among developed countries. In 2004, 11.2 percent of American children under the age of 18 had no health insurance (Census Bureau, 2005) and...
About 8.5 million children in the United States – more than one in 9 American children – do not have health insurance, according to an August 2004 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study based on statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About half of these children have no...
Teaching hospitals have a residency program approved by the American Hospital Association or have a membership in the Council of Teaching Hospitals. A large majority of insured and uninsured patients are admitted to not-for-profit hospitals, but the fraction of uninsured patients is slightly higher ...
Abstract Background: Since the introduction in 1984 of Australia's publicly-funded universal healthcare system, Medicare, healthcare financing has relied on a mix of public and private sources to meet the needs of the population (Sowa et al., Appl Health Econ Health Policy 15:31–41, 2018)...
Jama Journal of the American Medical AssociationHafner-Eaton C. 1993. "Physician Utilization Disparities between the Uninsured and Insured: Comparisons of the Chronically Ill, Acutely Ill, and Well Nonelderly Populations." JAMA. 269(6): 787-792....