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Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) and the Affordable Care Act
Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2015 Community-oriented primary care (COPC) is a model of health care delivery that tightly integrates primary care and public health. This model of care, applied around the globe, could be more widely adopted in the United States as clinical delivery systems
Jaime Gofin, Rosa Gofin, Jim P. Stimpson
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Mammography Screening in a Large Health System Following the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations and the Affordable Care Act. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Practice recommendations for mammography screening were issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force in 2009 and expansion of insurance coverage was provided under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act soon thereafter, yet the influence of ...
Heidi D Nelson +3 more
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Health Care Access by Weight Status in the State of Georgia
Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association, 2019 Background: Obesity continues to grow in prevalence in the United States and within the state of Georgia. Obesity is a risk factor for many chronic and preventable diseases.
Elizabeth Pullekines +1 more
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Refinement of the Affordable Care Act [PDF]
Annual Review of Medicine, 2018 Regardless of what legislation the federal government adopts to address health insurance coverage for nonelderly Americans, private insurance will likely play a major role. This article begins by listing some of the major reasons critics dislike the Affordable Care Act (ACA), then discusses the validity of these concerns from an economics perspective.
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The Affordable Care Act and Polarization in the United States
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2020 We argue that partisan polarization in public support of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is affected not only by policy design but also by which party makes those decisions.
Julianna Pacheco +2 more
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Initial Health Assessments and HIV Screening under the Affordable Care Act. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 156,300 (95% CI 144,100-165,900) Americans living with HIV in 2012 were unaware of their infection.
Arleen A Leibowitz +2 more
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Veterans and the Affordable Care Act [PDF]
JAMA, 2012 VIEWPOINT Veterans and the Affordable Care Act Kenneth W. Kizer, MD, MPH A RMED CONFLICT HAS BEEN A FREQUENT OCCUR - rence throughout US history. During the last cen- tury, the United States has fought 8 wars that to- gether span more than 35 years, not counting numerous conflicts that are not officially considered wars.
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Californian Journal of Health Promotion, 2014 This entry describes the development and key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which instituted a major overhaul of the U.S. health system, much of which took effect in 2014. The key provisions of the ACA included an individual mandate to purchase insurance, an employer mandate to offer coverage to most workers, an ...
Stephen H. Gorin +2 more
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Variability of assister availability in health insurance marketplace in the U.S.
BMC Health Services Research, 2018 Background The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established the health insurance marketplaces to provide people the opportunity to obtain healthcare coverage. Assisters have worked with people who may have difficulty understanding the new system and selecting ...
Jayoung Han, Dongwoo Ko
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The Affordable Care Act and Pharmaceuticals: An Economic Perspective
Journal of Moral Theology, 2021 The author discusses the 2010 Affordable Care Act in the U.S. by comparing it with the National Health Service in the United Kingdom, where is both the payer and provider of health care, and in France, where health coverage is universal and compulsory ...
Tracy Regan
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