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Category: Disparities
Decreasing Disparities in Health Coverage
Implemented in 2010, the ’s major coverage expansion was designed to improve the accessibility and affordability of health insurance. Although the ACA’s coverage expansion should decrease disparities in health care coverage among racial and ethnic minorities, both immigration status and Continue Reading …
Disparities due to Pre-existing Conditions
Despite attempts to improve access to care via the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, continue to persist. This study examines some of the causes of racial disparities between blacks and whites; it further attempts to understand and isolate the Continue Reading …
Quality Disparities exist between Payers
Although providing health insurance to Americans who didn’t have prior coverage sounds like a good thing; not all insurance provides equal . Disparities exist in the quality of care specifically with Medicare patients. From facing higher risk of inpatient mortality Continue Reading …
Elderly and Poor with Limited Options
The 2013 , which was intended to provide long term care insurance to millions of participating Americans, means that affordable financing of long term care insurance remains out of reach for many. Currently, the bulk of nursing home care is Continue Reading …
Carrying the Big Stick in Health Policy
In 2004, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare (CMS) launched the CMS Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting program, which would publicly report delivered by US hospitals. A recent study investigated quality of care measures and racial/ethnic performance rates among and within Continue Reading …