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Patients with disabilities still being turned away by doctors

By Katherine Morgan | Published: March 24, 2013
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In 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, which prohibited discrimination based on disability. One of the factors under the ADA was that professionals in the medical field can’t discriminate against their patients as well. It is mandatory …

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Fiscal deal eliminates CLASS Act without debate

By Andy Jones | Published: January 16, 2013
Uncle Sam Hanging from Cliff

As part of the deal to avoid the fiscal cliff, Congress formally repealed a provision from the Affordable Care Act requiring the creation of an insurance program for long-term care, which had already been suspended by the Obama Administration in …

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Senators urge feds to mandate coverage of autism therapy

By Andy Jones | Published: October 26, 2012
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Four U.S. Senators recently wrote a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, urging Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to require insurers to cover applied behavioral analysis therapy as part of the reforms under the Affordable Care Act.

“All …

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MSNBC Anchor Honors Mental Health Awareness Week

By Will Reckase | Published: October 21, 2012
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Last Sunday, MSNBC news anchor Melissa Harris-Perry devoted a portion of her show to a discussion on mental health consciousness in the U.S. in honor of Mental Health Awareness Week.

Harris-Perry, whose weekly broadcast regularly focuses on issues of social …

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DOE reaches special education agreement with Memphis schools

By Andy Jones | Published: October 1, 2012

The city of Memphis will overhaul its health care services in its public schools as part of a resolution agreement reached April 23 with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights.

Specifically, the schools will be required to …

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Community First Choice option launch

By Andy Jones | Published: September 30, 2012
Community First Choice

The Department of Health and Human Services announced September 4 that California is the first recipient of the new Community First Choice Option, a new program included in the Affordable Care Act that provides funding to incentive states to expedite …

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Journal article examines the implications of the Supreme Court’s Medicaid decision

By Andy Jones | Published: August 26, 2012

Lost in much of the discussion surrounding the Supreme Court’s surprise decision to uphold the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act, the most publicized provision of the Obama health care bill, was the Supreme Court’s decision to allow states …

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Report: Nearly a third of doctors not accepting Medicaid patients

By Andy Jones | Published: August 8, 2012

A new study published August 6 in the journal Health Affairs found that 31 percent of doctors nationwide are not accepting new Medicaid patients, a figure significantly higher than the rate for Medicare providers, 17 percent, and private insurers, 18 …

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DOJ announces new health care accessibility initiative

By Andy Jones | Published: August 6, 2012
Medical Sign Language Interpreter

From August 15 to October 7, 2004, James P. Miller was enrolled in a residential treatment program at the Ferndale, Michigan-based Kingwood Hospital, an inpatient psychiatric facility. As a man who is deaf whose sole method of communication is American …

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