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Most Adults With Past-Due Medical Debt Owe Money to Hospitals
The Issue Nonprofit hospitals—which account for 60 percent of U.S. hospitals—must provide charity care and community benefits to maintain tax-exempt status. However, these hospitals determine their own charity care eligibility criteria and researchers note financial assistance policies are often difficult to find and understand. Key Findings Conclusion Medical debt is a persistent challenge across the country…
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Does Cost-Sharing for Screening Result in Missed Cancer Diagnoses?
By Sara Heath On March 29, 2023 Patients facing higher cost-sharing and out-of-pocket costs for follow-up breast cancer screening do not access those procedures, research has found. March 29, 2023 – Patients who face cost-sharing and high out-of-pocket healthcare costs for breast cancer screening might not access any applicable follow-up tests they need, according to research published in JAMA Network…
Read MoreSevere mental illness associated with breast cancer treatment disparities
By Kalie VanDewater On March 27, 2023 Compared with other people with breast cancer, those with a preexisting severe mental illness were less likely to receive appropriate treatment and more likely to experience delays in receiving treatment, findings in Psycho-Oncology showed. Steve Kisely, PhD, MD, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Queensland School of Clinical Medicine…
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Five First Steps For Addressing Workplace Ageism
By Sheila Callaham On March 26, 2023 Ageism is discrimination against individuals or groups based on their age. When the late Dr. Robert N. Butler coined the term more than 50 years ago, he intended to raise awareness of the blatant denigration of the aging population. Butler, the first to publicize age-related stereotyping, focused his…
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Anti-age discrimination policies are failing in the workplace, says case study of UK policy
By University of Sheffield (U.K.) On March 22, 2023 Anti-age discrimination policies are failing in the workplace, according to new research from the University of Sheffield. The case study of U.K. policy revealed current anti-age discrimination policies are not being implemented as intended and therefore neglecting those they are supposed to help. The study recommends change is…
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Series: Ryan Critique Of Poverty Programs Sparked Usual Battle Over Spending
By Roger Valdez On February 3, 2023 While the world was a different place in 2014 when Congressman and recent Vice-Presidential candidate Paul Ryan emerged with his analysis and critique of the War on Poverty and the vast array of programs that emerged from it. What hasn’t seemed to change in the intervening decade is…
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The end of a pandemic-era boost to SNAP benefits is compounding the burden low-income households already face
By Elizabeth Chuck and Safia Samee Ali On February 1, 2023 Eighteen states have already ended the emergency allotment of at least $95 extra a month, and the rest of the country will soon follow, even as grocery prices remain high. A pandemic-era boost to the funds low-income households receive to buy groceries is ending,…
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Veterans to Farmers determined to expand farming opportunities for women Veterans
By Richard Murphy On February 28, 2023 Farming uses many of the same skills essential to the ethos of the U.S. military: hard work, attention to detail and service before self, to name a few. In 2013, Veterans to Farmers launched to allow Veterans to re-utilize those skills while taking on the challenge of continuing to feed…
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Abortion rights groups submit 2023 ballot measure in Ohio
By Julie Carr-Smith On February 21, 2023 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two groups advocating for abortion rights submitted fall ballot language Tuesday for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing Ohioans’ access to abortion, an effort that opponents have vowed to fight. The measure delivered to Republican Attorney General Dave Yost’s office calls for establishing “a fundamental right…
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