An Innovative Approach in Minnesota to Close the Gap Between Mental Health...
It has always been important to improve access to treatment for mental health and substance use disorders. Now it’s imperative. Even before the arrival of COVID-19, national numbers raised serious...
View ArticleTime to Discuss a “Health Equity Moonshot”
This month, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing on the health inequities witnessed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The topics discussed in that hearing...
View ArticleImproving Patient Care by Applying Lessons Learned from a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic and its social distancing requirements have necessitated changes in the delivery of healthcare over the past 14 months. As we begin to transition back to normalcy, policymakers...
View ArticleThe Problematic Push to Slow Medicare Advantage’s Positive Health Impact
In the complex deliberations on Capitol Hill to assemble a social spending package that can pass both houses, one of the prominent proposals being discussed is the expansion of Medicare benefits to...
View ArticleAmericans Deserve the Full Truth About Medicare-For-All and its Ramifications...
So much of the nation’s discussion about the Medicare-for-all concept takes place through a political prism. It’s important, though, to fully understand what such a drastic change to our healthcare...
View ArticleIs Mandatory Participation in Medicare Demonstrations Necessary?
Recently, Health Affairs Forefront, published a post by Dan L. Crippen, former director of the Congressional Budget Office and currently a Healthcare Leaddership Council consultant, that should be a...
View ArticleImproving Diversity in Our Clinical Trials for Long-term Health Equity
Across the healthcare industry work is taking place to address health disparities. The Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC) has delved specifically into social determinants of health, broadband access,...
View ArticleHere’s How Insurers Can Take a More Strategic Approach to Community Investment
This is a guest post by John Lumpkin, M.D., President of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation and Vice President, Drivers of Health. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina...
View ArticleExploring the Changing Landscape of Cancer Care
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death across the globe and affects the lives of millions every year in the United States. As advances have been made in screening, diagnosing and therapeutics,...
View ArticleEmbedding Health Equity into the Core of Healthcare
The Report of the Secretary’s Task Force on Black and Minority Health was released in 1985, serving as a catalyst for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to begin addressing health...
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