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People with disabilities are more than twice as likely to find health-care providers' skills inadequate; nearly three times more likely to be denied health care; and four times more likely to report being treated badly than non-disabled people. Children with disabilities are less likely to attend school than non-disabled children. Education ...
More than 25 million people lost coverage during the “unwinding” of Medicaid— the majority for procedural reasons like paperwork issues, according to the health policy research group KFF.
And most people don’t push back — a study found that only 0.1% of denied claims under the Affordable Care Act, a law designed to make health insurance more affordable and prevent coverage ...
Nearly 60% of insured adults reported challenges using their health care coverage in a 2023 KFF survey, including insurers who refuse to pay for medical care. Dr. Adam Gaffney, a critical care ...
The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111–152 (text), 124 Stat. 1029) is a law that was enacted by the 111th United States Congress, by means of the reconciliation process, in order to amend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (Pub. L. 111–148 (text)).
African Americans are less likely to have access to mental health care and are more likely to have lesser quality care when they do find it. [4] African Americans and other members of racial minorities are more likely to be uninsured or have Medicaid, limiting the amount and type of access that they have mental health outpatient sources.
Earlier in December, a group of 11 students and seven staff members from the Charles County Public Schools District were denied dine-in service at the Cracker Barrel in Waldorf, Maryland ...
In February 2024, the American Psychological Association approved a policy statement supporting unobstructed access to health care and evidence-based clinical care for transgender, gender-diverse, and nonbinary children, adolescents, and adults, as well as opposing state bans and policies intended to limit access to such care.