PATH (Public Access to Healthcare) will act to increase access to medical care and bring affordable prescription medicine to all Americans.
Did You Know? Trump Administration / Republican changes have significantly increased health insurance cost Read the facts
Did You Know? Every year, pharmaceutical companies contribute millions of dollars to U.S. senators and representatives as part of a multipronged effort to influence health care lawmaking and spending priorities. https://khn.org/news/campaign/
Did You Know? A Health Affairs study, released recently, found a roughly 40 percent increase in the number of prescriptions filled for diabetes drugs in Medicaid programs of the 30 states (including Washington, D.C.) that expanded eligibility in 2014 and 2015, compared with prior years. By contrast, states that didn’t embrace the Medicaid expansion saw no notable increase. Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that more than 2 million people who live in non-participating states would have qualified for Medicaid had their states chosen to expand. https://khn.org/news/
Did you know? A series of recent national polls released continue to find health care among the top issues for voters in the 2020 campaigns. A Kaiser Health Tracking Poll looks at how important a candidate’s positions on specific health care issues are to voters and finds that protections for pre-existing conditions seem to be weighing heaviest on the minds of the public. https://www.kff.org/
Did you know? A single-payer Medicare for All system would reduce the amount the U.S. spends on health care by more than $2 trillion, a Koch brothers-funded study found. https://thinkprogress.org/mercatis-medicare-for-all-study-0a8681353316/
Did you know? According to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau, the state could have saved $1.1 billion in 2014 to 2019 by taking the Medicaid expansion. In 2018, the savings would be $187 million. From Health Policy Issues in Wisconsin.
Did you know? House Republicans released a proposal that would balance the budget in nine years — but only by making large cuts to entitlement programs, including Medicare https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/06/19/house-gop-plan-would-cut-medicare-social-security-to-balance-budget/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.12811769d2a4
Did You know? A large percentage of older Americans who were prescribed opioid pain medication in the past two years were not instructed how to use the drugs safely.
A poll co-sponsored by AARP and the University of Michigan found that of the 3 in 10 Americans between ages 50 and 80 who were prescribed opioids in the past two years, fewer than half were informed about the medications’ side effects or about the risks of addiction or overdose. Less than 40 percent were told what to do with any unused medication. AARP Newsletter July 2018
Did you know? latest info from Kaiser Health News: Politics of health care, opioid crisis, preexisting conditions
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