by Jordana Choucair | Jun 24, 2022 | D.C. News
The Senate passed a roughly $15 billion gun reform bill in a 65-33 vote, with more than half of that funding going toward mental health and school safety programs. The measure includes millions of dollars for mental health, school safety, crisis intervention programs,...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 24, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
A new Deloitte analysis predicts that disparate health outcomes could cost the U.S. health care system $1 trillion annually by 2040, nearly tripling in size over the next 20 years and accounting for nearly 12.5 percent of health care spending. According to the...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 24, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
The Health Equity Project, in conjunction with Third Horizon Strategies (THS), Pareto, and Algorex, released the final issue brief in a series on social determinants of health (SDOH). The issue brief explores the impacts of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 24, 2022 | Life Sciences
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) unanimously endorsed Moderna’s vaccine for use in those between the ages of 6 and 17. Previously, the only COVID-19 vaccine authorized for use in children between...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 24, 2022 | Life Sciences
New data found that COVID-19 vaccines prevented an estimated 20 million deaths in the first year after they were made available, mostly in wealthier countries. Researchers estimated that more than 7 million lives were saved in countries covered by the vaccine-sharing...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 24, 2022 | Payers
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved Colorado’s Section 1332 state innovation waiver to create its own state-specific public option plan starting next year. Colorado is the first state to get approval for a public option plan. The plan,...
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