Here’s Why Nurses Are Exiting Healthcare by Shannon Firth, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today April 9, 2024 While planned retirement topped the list of reasons for nurses leaving healthcare, failures by employers also played a role, according to a cross-sectional study that analyzed survey data. Among nearly 7,900 nurses who left the healthcare field […]
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Yes, Congress Finally Funded Health Spending for 2024 by Joyce Frieden, Washington Editor, MedPage Today April 3, 2024 Something important for the world of healthcare happened very quietly a week and a half ago: President Biden signed the fiscal year (FY) 2024 appropriations bill for HHS into law. Biden signed the $1.2 trillion
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GPCA Endorses AB 2200, California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act April 15, 2024 The Green Party of California has endorsed AB 2200, California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act (CalCare) which will begin the process of creating a universal single-payer system of equitable and just health care for every California resident, regardless of
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Where Nursing Homes Hide Their Profits By Merrill Goozner April 8, 2024 Last June, an elderly stroke survivor residing at Chicago’s Lakeview Rehab and Nursing Center fell to the floor while being transferred by mechanical lift from his bed to a shower chair. The fall broke his leg in two places. A single nurse’s
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‘If I don’t talk no one’s going to know’: Stories of pain from East Palestine move coalition members to action By Steve Mellon March 24, 2024 Lauri Harmon stepped from the crowd gathered in a community hall at the East Palestine Country Club around 2:30 on Saturday afternoon and told her story to a
Medicare Advantage in 2023: Enrollment Update and Key Trends By Nancy Ochieng, Jeannie Fuglesten Biniek, Meredith Freed, Anthony Damico, and Tricia Neuman August 09, 2023 Medicare Advantage enrollment has been on a steady climb for the past two decades following changes in policy designed to encourage a robust role for private plan options in
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Liz Theoharis, This Can’t Be as “Good” as It Gets By Liz Theoharis March 10, 2024 It’s not complicated. This country, as TomDispatch regular and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign Liz Theoharis makes clear today, is simply unprepared — unprepared, that is, to keep all too many Americans even reasonably healthy and well.
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2024 World Happiness Report: Happiest countries revealed, US fails to crack top 20 By Julia Gomez March 20, 2024
World Happiness Report Appendices & Data 2024
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Nearly half of health systems are considering dropping Medicare Advantage plans By Andrew Cass March 22, 2024 “Onerous” authorization requirements and high denial rates have health systems considering whether to drop Medicare Advantage plans, according to a report from the Healthcare Financial Management Association and Eliciting Insights. “HFMA Health System CFO Pain Points
