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ASCO 2020: First National-Scale Study on the Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Cancer Mortality Rates Highlighted in Press Program

May 13, 2020 sarah Jonas Affordable Care Act, Healthcare Policy, Obamacare

New data from researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) revealed the effects of Medicaid expansion on cancer death rates on a national scale. The landmark study found that states that adopted Medicaid expansion following the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010 saw greater decreases in cancer mortality rates than states that did not. The findings were presented as part of the press program for this year’s virtual annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).

Policy

Endocrine Society opposes Administration’s effort to roll back protections for transgender health

May 1, 2020 sarah Jonas Access To Health Care, Affordable Care Act, Affordable Care Act (ACA), Endocrine Society, Healthcare Access, Transgender

The Endocrine Society is alarmed by the Administration’s proposed rule to roll back protections for transgender individuals and narrow the scope of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, when everyone needs access to health care. The Society calls on the Administration to maintain access to care protections for all, particularly vulnerable populations.

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Obamacare buffering bankruptcy risk, new study shows

April 30, 2020 sarah Jonas Affordable Care Act, Obamacare

A decade after President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more people are fully insured, fewer are uninsured and people who lose their insurance intermittently are no longer at greater risk of bankruptcy, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder study.

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Medicaid expansion led to more insurance coverage and a higher rate of mammograms in seven states

April 24, 2020 sarah Jonas Affordable Care Act, Breast Cancer, Mammogram, Mammography, Medicaid, medicaid expansion

In states that chose to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), lower-income women now have access to mammograms at a higher rate than in states that did not expand Medicaid coverage.

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DePaul University experts available to discuss recovery, life after the COVID-19 pandemic

April 16, 2020 sarah Jonas Affordable Care Act, Bioethics, Conspiracy Theories, corona virus, Coronavirus, coronavirus pandemic, covid, covid 19, covid 19 economy, COVID-19 pandemic, economic inequality, Federal Reserve, HOMELESSNESS, Hospitality, Leadership, novel coronavirus, Obamacare, Pandemic, Public Health, public transit, Racial Inequalities, Recovery, Tourism, Vaccines, VIROLOGY, Virus, White Nationalism, Work-Life Balance, working from home, working parents

Recovery. Reentry. Reopen. Return. A new normal. Faculty experts at DePaul University are available for news media interviews about what comes next — after the COVID-19 pandemic. Does the world return to normal or will there be fundamental changes to how we live our lives, work, and travel; and how we are governed?

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ACA has helped protect low-income patients from catastrophic spending for surgery

April 8, 2020 sarah Jonas ACA, Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance, Low-Income Patients, Obamacare, Surgery

n the years after 2014, when the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplaces were established, low-income patients who underwent a surgical procedure saved an average of $601 in out-of-pocket spending and $968 in premium spending per year, compared to before the marketplaces existed. Those low-income patients also had a 35% lower chance of having catastrophic levels of household medical spending.

However, for middle-income patients, spending levels were about the same before and after the marketplaces began.

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Study Finds ‘Far-Reaching’ Impact from Affordable Care Act

March 2, 2020 sarah Jonas Affordable Care Act, Affordable Care Act (ACA), health insurance coverage, Obama Administration, Trump Administration

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Affordable Care Act helped make health insurance access more equal, but racial and ethnic gaps remain

March 2, 2020 sarah Jonas Affordable Care Act, Health Disparities, Health Insurance, Insurance, medicaid expansion, Racial Disparities

As the Affordable Care Act turns 10, a new study shows it has narrowed racial and ethnic gaps in access to health insurance – but definitely not eliminated them.
Both the percentage of people 19-64 who lacked health insurance, and the size of the health insurance gap between white, African-American and Hispanic Americans, shrank. From 2013 to 2017, the gap between blacks and whites narrowed 45%, and the difference between Hispanics and whites narrowed 35%.

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White House health communications & ethics expert – COVID-19 response

February 28, 2020 sarah Jonas Affordable Care Act, Coronavirus, COVID-19, FDA, Public Health, White House

Research Results

Visits to Pediatricians on the Decline

January 21, 2020 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Affordable Care Act, Insurance, Pediatric

Commercially insured children in the U.S. are seeing pediatricians less often than they did a decade ago, according to a new analysis led by a pediatrician-scientist at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.

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Medicaid expansion doubled access to primary care, increased attention to health risks in Michigan enrollees

December 9, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Affordable Care Act, Cancer Screening, Medicaid, medicaid expansion, Prevention, Primary Care

When Michigan expanded its Medicaid program to cover more low-income residents, its leaders built in special features to encourage enrollees to understand their health risks, and incentivize them to prevent future health problems, or find them early. According to two new studies, that effort has paid off.