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How Medicaid's mission creep is undermining real health care

How Medicaid’s mission creep is undermining real health care

Most doctors, myself included, know that a patient’s zip code predicts their life expectancy. National life expectancy would undoubtedly increase with less poverty and more cheap nutritious food, stable housing, sanitation and exercise. But it is a mistake to assume that the health care system can solve these societal problems. The federal government wants Medicaid …

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In Burkina Faso, a personal mission to make a difference in a community

In Burkina Faso, a personal mission to make a difference in a community

NORTHAMPTON, MA /ACCESSWIRE/December 2, 2022/ Merck & Co., Inc. Merck & Co., Inc., Friday, December 2, 2022, Image from press release Difficult life experiences have united two Merck colleagues – Jules Millogo and Cathy Hoath – in an effort to create opportunity and break the cycle of poverty in the small village of Konkourona, in …

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Mission Health has made its application for charitable care funding available online for the first time.

Request for charity care from public mission after pressure from patient advocates

ASHEVILLE — Pressure from patient advocates on HCA Healthcare paid off Nov. 17 when the company made a sample of its charitable care financial assistance request public online on the Mission Health website. Mission is perhaps the first of all HCA hospital systems – there are more than 180 in its network in the US …

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