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ryan keely

SIRS: Health Care for 30 Million More Americans Will Boost Nation's... - 0 views

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obamacare health care

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  • Consumers drive the economy, and they will see the most positive benefits from the health-care act
  • create jobs boosting local economies
  • workforce should be strengthened
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  • slowing of health insurance costs hikes
  • portability of health coverage,
  • cap on "out of pocket" expenses for lower income Americans
  • tax credits
  • provisions banning the exclusion of people with pre-existing conditions
  • healthier workforce with more money to spend, boosting our economy
Emily Brown

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nursing student

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  • 10 million people
  • $26,096 for each person
  • $9,459 for home
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  • community-based services for each older person or adult with a physical disability.
  • Little relief is in sight for states'
  • long-term care (LTC) services,
  • them continue living at hom
  • e or in community-based settings
  • sort of care generally costs
  • "A state that offers Medicaid doesn't have the option of not paying for nursing facilities under Medicaid, while they do have control over whether to pay for home/community-based services,
  • long-term care financing and senior health insurance issues
  • could be as high as $140 billion
  • $60 billion of that sum would accrue to the states.
  • 25,000 people enrolled in Minnesota Senior H
  • ealth Options (MSHO),
  • Thomas von Sternberg, MD, HealthPartners
  • variety of creative contracts,
  • 40% in premiums.
  • 8% of the market, recently announced that it will halt new sales of LTC insurance.
  • LTC expenses.
  • Medicaid to cover additional
  • approximately $50 to $75 per day.
  • "This enhanced match is actually targeted to states that are furthest behind in these areas."
  • 20 years. She is based in Eugene, Ore.
  • Maryland,
  • New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Texas, Virginia and Tennessee.
  • LTC system that is proactive.
  • 75 members.
  • MCO relies on a mix of nurses
  • social workers to develop care plans for each person.
  • plus face-to-face
  • 20,000 people enrolled
  • 3,000 served by Amerigroup.
  • Since 1999
  • 34%."
  • 1,500 patients
  • 20,000
  • 449,000.
  • 2007,
  • 36 practices, reaching
  • 24 hours
  • LTC Medicaid,
ryan keely

SIRS: Obamacare: Affordable Care Act's False Promise of Universal Coverage - 0 views

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obamacare

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  • 37 million U.S. citizens were without health insurance on the eve of the Affordable Care Act
  • 36 million were in households that earn above the poverty level; 7 million live in households earning $75,000 or above
  • The joint CBO-Joint Committee on Taxation study finds that Obamacare will reduce the number of uninsured residents from 53 million to 30 million, but the 53 million includes "unauthorized" immigrants and those eligible but not enrolled in Medicaid
zanea hopkins

SIRS: Law Threatens Families' Privacy - 0 views

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families reading

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  • Alberta's proposed Children First Act will erode privacy rights and undermine Albertans' control over their own health and personal information, privacy commissioner Jill Clayton says.
  • government hasn't done enough to make sure those subject to the act
  • The proposed new legislation allows those who work with at-risk children to talk to one another about the people they serve; those on the list include child welfare workers, police, teachers and foster parents, among others. These front-line workers have consistently said rules that restrict them from
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  • sharing information make it harder to do what is right for kids in care.
  • privacy implications of the bill, known as Bill 25.
  • to be able to exercise your rights if you don't like it,
  • there can be a danger of information being collected and used for one purpose, and then appropriated and used for other secondary purposes."
  • that the law allows agencies to share information about children and families whenever they are "enabling or planning" to provide services
Emily Brown

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