This holiday shopping season, there’s one big purchase that millions of Americans will make: health insurance. In most states, including Nevada, the Open Enrollment Period (OEP) runs from November 1 through January 15. Last year, more than 100,000 Nevadans signed up for health insurance plans on Nevada Health Link — a record number of signups …
Low-income women in Mississippi have less access to health care in the months following childbirth than their counterparts in every state except Wyoming. Mississippi and Wyoming are now the only two states in the nation that have neither expanded Medicaid eligibility for low-income working adults nor extended postpartum Medicaid coverage for new mothers beyond 60 …
fatima hassan “The reason we brought the case is because we saw the ‘Lazarus’ drugs. We’ve seen them work for people in the United States. We saw them working for people in Europe,” Hassan said. “We have seen what Brazilian and Thai activists are doing to try to put in place mandatory measures for their …
Patient access to healthcare information continues to evolve and change the shape of patient relationships with doctors, hospitals, testing centers and insurers. The issue is receiving the attention of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), as evidenced by recent Health Insurance Portability right-of-access enforcement actions. and Accountability …
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The Latino community knows firsthand what it means for the government to marginalize our health care needs. We are the largest uninsured racial and ethnic majority and are often the target of misinformation and stigmatizing information when trying to access reproductive health care. This is why the Latino community wants to see more intentional political …
