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Closing the Health-Wealth Gap
Strategies to Reduce Health Disparities and Create Financial Opportunity Over two million Californians have medical debt. These residents find it difficult to access needed health care or affordable...
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The Health-Wealth Connection
Understanding the Impact of Medical Debt Over two million Californians have medical debt. These residents find it difficult to access needed health care or affordable credit. Even with the passage of...
View ArticleBuilding Health, Promoting Wealth Fall Speaker Series
Over two million Californians have medical debt. These residents find it difficult to access needed health care or affordable credit. Medical debt and its consequences illustrate the detrimental effect...
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Tarnish on the Golden State
How Medical Debt Threatens Family Financial Stability September 27, 2011Leif Wellington Haase Mark Rukavina, Jacquelyn Kercheval Tarnish on the Golden State, a new report issued by the New America...
View ArticleHealthcare Practitioners, Bankers, Community Leaders Gather to Discuss Impact...
September 27, 2011LOS ANGELES – Recognizing the need to assist Los Angeles residents struggling with medical debt, healthcare practitioners today joined financial services providers and community...
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Convenings held in Los Angeles, Oakland, and Fresno October 4, 2011For Immediate Release - October 4: Recognizing the need to assist California residents struggling with medical debt, healthcare...
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Leading Health Indicators: Indicative of What, Exactly?
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of posts contributed by Andrew Wickerham, who attended the 139th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association this week in Washington, DC.Think back...
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Values and evidence: There's a difference.
In her latest column at TIME Ideas, Shannon Brownlee takes on the controversy over the Obama administration's birth control rule, and links it to some of the other purportedly moral debates over the...
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Final Round: FIGHT!
Wow. Over six hours of argument later, we're left with... well, a little over six hours of audio. Now we get to wait for the decision--only 89 days to go! (The opinion will almost certainly be issued...
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A Belated SCOTUS Wrap-up, and A Look Forward
Unless you've been living under a whole pile of rocks, you heard about the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in Florida v. Department of Health and Human Services—the Obamacare case. You’ve probably heard...
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A Market-based Case for the ACA
The Supreme Court will soon pass down their decision on the most hotly-contested and highly influential policy decisions in recent years: the Affordable Care Act (ACA). As CNN has put it, this is "an...
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The Number of the Day and ER alternatives
The number of the day is 222—the international dialing code for Mauritania. More interestingly, 222 is the number of nationwide ER visits per minute in 2011, according to the 2007 Emergency Department...
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The Supreme Court has Ruled on the ACA
After a tense last two weeks of the term, the Supreme Court has handed down its ruling for the cases challenging the Affordable Care Act (Florida v. Department of Health and Human Services, Dep't of...
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A Supreme Day - In Photos
On Wednesday, June 27th my roommate convinced me that we should give up the comfort of our intern-housing beds for the cold hard concrete of justice and the company of other "Supreme nerds," waiting in...
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Health Wonk Review: SCOTUS edition
The health wonks have responded en masse to the Supreme Court's decision on the ACA. Here are the links to this special edition of Health Wonk Review.Part 1Part 2
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31 Things the House Could Have Done...
Last week the house voted to repeal Obamacare... again. This marks the 31st time that they have voted to repeal, defund, or otherwise try to hamper the PPACA, even though they have known that such...
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Drug Regulation, Symbolic Votes, and Hospital Safety
Here's our wrap-up of last week's articles by our own Shannnon Brownlee and Joe Colucci:Letting Big Pharma Review Its Own Drugs — What Could Go Wrong? (The Atlantic Health Channel):Earlier this month...
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Health Wonk Review!
Last week's Health Wonk Review is worth checking out--it has posts on a whole slew of topics, ranging from implementation of the ACA to Medicare readmissions penalties, and more. It's also stocked with...
View ArticleWhat 'Health Care Costs' Really Means
December 22, 2012 Framing our problem in terms of "costs" is a misrepresentation of the real challenge -- how to slow the increase in spending. Shannon BrownleeJoe ColucciDecember 22, 2012No fiscal...
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Integrating Public Assistance Programs: A Perspective from the Field
This past fall I worked with the San Diego Hunger Coalition as a fellow of the National Emerson Hunger Fellowship, which trains leaders to fight domestic hunger, poverty, and racism at both the local...
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