by Jessica Casebolt | May 5, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
Immigrant adults and children under the age of 65, including those who are undocumented, account for 8 percent of the U.S. population but make up nearly 32 percent of the uninsured population in the country, according to a new report from the Urban Institute and the...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 5, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
During the period of continuous Medicaid enrollment (February 2020 – March 2023), the uninsured rate in the US dropped to the lowest level ever recorded, but as of April 1, 2023, several states resumed disenrolling people from Medicaid, leading to concerns over...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 4, 2023 | Payers, Tea Leaves
Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment accounts for just over half of all Medicare beneficiaries, according to a new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation. KFF researchers analyzed data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and found that 30.19...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 4, 2023 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday approved the first vaccine to prevent infections caused by respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, a widespread pathogen that can be deadly in young children and older adults. Approval of the vaccine, which was...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 3, 2023 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves
Drug overdose death rates involving fentanyl more than tripled in the US from 2016 to 2021. The rate of overdose deaths involving fentanyl spiked by 279 percent between 2016 and 2021, according to a report published by the National Center for Health Statistics....
by Jessica Casebolt | May 3, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
Vermont on Tuesday become the first state in the nation to update its medically assisted suicide law to allow out-of-state terminally ill people to use the procedure to end their lives. The law, which for a decade has permitted doctors to prescribe life-ending...
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