American Experiment on Healthcare
Healthcare Reports
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Working Paper: Three Strategies for Implementing a State Exchange
Executive Summary The Affordable Care Act asks states to set up insurance exchanges to “facilitate the purchase of qualified health plans.” The primary goal of an insurance exchange is to extend...
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Serious problems with the Health and Human Services omnibus bill
The House and Senate conferees on the Health and Human Services (HHS) omnibus supplemental budget bill finished their work late last night. The conferees managed to hit their budget targets and delive...
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A Conversation about Canadian and American Health Care with Lee Kurisko, M.D.
Lee Kurisko is a Canadian radiologist who formerly practiced in Thunder Bay, Ontario, as director of diagnostic imaging for Thunder Bay Regional Hospital....
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Healthcare Articles
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Counterpoint: Gov. Dayton’s attack on Republican leader’s truthfulness is absurd
He’s wrong on several points, and unhelpful. In “Don’t believe Republicans: MNsure isn’t the problem” (Oct. 19), Gov. Mark Dayton levied a harsh attack on the truthfulness of statement...
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Medicaid Estate Claims: Not the Debt but the Surprise that’s the Problem
The Duluth News Tribune published an in-depth article on how some people who enrolled in Medicaid through MNsure are making a shocking discovery: The state has placed a claim on their estate for the c...
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People enrolled in Medicaid through MNsure discover their assets are subject to estate claims
The Duluth News Tribune published an in-depth article on how some people ...
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Healthcare Posts
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Yale researchers found that childcare programs are not a big contributor to the spread of Covid-19
According to a study conducted by Yale Researcher, childcare programs that stayed open have not been a major contributor to the spread of Covid-19. This is the first large-scale study specifically tar...
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Telehealth could improve healthcare access in Rural Minnesota post-COVID
Before the pandemic, health care access was tough in rural areas. And the pandemic has made that worse. However, the pandemic also accelerated the adoption of telehealth which could potentially serve ...
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Mental health providers in Minnesota deem telemedicine convenient and beneficial
In Minnesota, like in most states, mental health providers switched to telemedicine out of necessity but are now realizing the benefits that telemedicine can provide to health care provision. ...
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Data shows ban on elective services disrupted routine health care for kids
New data shows that during the strictest period of the lockdown (March to May), vaccinations and screenings for childhood diseases, as well as other visits dropped tremendously. This spells significan...
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Minnesota’s Department of Health is going to stop reporting the number of people in hospital with Covid-19
The data has consistently failed to support the state government's dire warnings. Rather than ditching the dire warnings, the state government is ditching the data. ...
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