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The Affordable Care Act Attenuates Financial Strain According to Poverty Level

open access: yesInquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2018
We use data from the 2011-2016 National Health Interview Survey to examine how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has influenced disparities in health care–related financial strain, access to care, and utilization of services by ...
Ryan M. McKenna PhD   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Budgetary and Economic Effects of Repealing the Affordable Care Act [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
[Excerpt] Over the past several years, a number of proposals have been advanced for repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which became law in March 2010. In this report, the Congressional Budget Office and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (
Congressional Budget Office
core   +1 more source

Design Strategies and Emerging Applications of High‐Performance Flexible Piezoresistive Pressure Sensors

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Flexible piezoresistive pressure sensors underpin wearable and soft electronics. This review links sensing physics, including contact resistance modulation, quantum tunneling and percolation, to unified materials/structure design. We highlight composite and graded architectures, interfacial/porous engineering, and microstructured 3D conductive networks
Feng Luo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reform Has Only Just Begun

open access: yesJournal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews, 2016
The head of a major Midwestern health care system outlines the long road facing the industry in terms of overhauling its infrastructure from volume-based to value-oriented.
Nick Turkal
doaj   +1 more source

New Opportunities for Integrating and Improving Health Care for Women, Children, and Their Families [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Outlines provisions in the Affordable Care Act for integrating healthcare services for low-income women and children to improve outcomes and cut costs.
Edward L. Schor, Karen VanLandeghem
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Translational Considerations for Injectable Biomaterials and Bioscaffolds to Repair and Regenerate Brain Tissue

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
The repair and regeneration of brain tissue faces both biological and technical challenges. Injectable bioscaffolds offer new opportunities to stimulate tissue regrowth in the brain by recruiting neural stem cells. Here, the translational issues are reviewed that need to be address to advance this promising new therapeutic approach from the bench to ...
Michel Modo, Alena Kisel
wiley   +1 more source

Implementing the Affordable Care Act: Key Design Decisions for State-Based Exchanges [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The Affordable Care Act requires the establishment of new health insurance marketplaces -- known as exchanges -- in every state by October 1, 2013. This report examines key design decisions made by the 17 states and the District of Columbia that chose to

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Smart Face Masks as Wearable Respiratory Sensors: A Review of Sensor Technologies, Materials, and Future Directions

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review highlights recent advances in smart face masks that actively monitor breathing. By integrating humidity, gas, temperature, pressure, strain, and triboelectric sensors, these masks track key respiratory parameters in real time. The article summarizes sensor mechanisms, compares performance across studies, and discusses challenges and future ...
Negin Faramarzi   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Health Reform on Health Care Providers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Health Reform) has the potential to dramatically change the way health care services are financed and delivered.

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CORE: Cholesterol Altered Lipid Nanoparticles for Splenic Expression of mRNA Payloads

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
In this paper researchers introduce CORE LNPs, a new class of lipid nanoparticles engineered to redirect mRNA expression away from the liver and into the spleen, a key immune organ. By combining chemical design with computational tools, they created cholesterol analogs that enable precise spleen‐targeted expression, providing greater applications for ...
Eshan A. Narasipura   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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