Newly Insured Fret Over Gains Made Under US Health Care Law stat : Access Denied

The health law helped push uninsured rates to historic lows and also aimed to bring the newly insured back into the primary care system to improve their health. Others are working through insurance to draw into the health care system patients who don't speak English. Medicaid's expansion boosted the bottom line — and number of insured patients — at Cook County Health & Hospitals System, one of the nation's largest public health systems. The law also aims to improve health by getting the poor and newly insured back into regular care and away from sporadic clinic visits or expensive options such as emergency rooms. But that often means overcoming problems that include making it to the doctor, a mistrust of the health care system or language barriers just to get patients into the waiting room.




Just imagine a hearing featuring the leaders of these groups, every one of which opposes the House bill: the American Medical Association, American Nurses Association, American Hospital Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, American Diabetes Association, American Lung Association, March of Dimes and AARP. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThey should hear a loud message that Americans aren't in favor of taking health insurance from their fellow citizens. Eventually, before a vote is taken, the details of the Senate bill will become public, as they did in the House. Republican senators, aware of the bill's unpopularity, were careful to say publicly that they would start fresh. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThink of it as the Upton strategy, and I'll explain the name in a minute.

GOP Wants to Improve Indian Health Care

"For years, the Indian Health Service has fallen short in providing high quality medical care throughout Indian Country," Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyoming) said. For mainstream Americans $8,517 per capita is spent, compared to $3,136 for Indian Health Service patients, she said in a written statement. "The long history of failures at IHS are unacceptable and will not be tolerated."Barrasso is the primary sponsor of the new Indian health care bill. Congressional Republicans believe they can improve Indian Health Service – and the first step is to cut money from the already underfunded IHS budget. In requesting $7 billion Native groups hope to bring health care spending on reservations in line with mainstream America, according to Esther Lucero, executive director of the Seattle Indian Health Board.


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