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Avoiding 26,000 preventable deaths each year: got coverage?

Health insurance is important. 50% of personal bankruptcies are due to healthcare costs. Cancer patients are 5 times  more likely to delay therapy. 26,000 people die each year without it. Health care providers can ask three simple questions to screen for health insurance status: do you have health insurance? is it affordable? does it cover…

February 12, 2014 in ACA, ethics, insurance, student run free clinics.

The future of student run free clinics

The future of student run free clinics Please click this link to read my monthly post for the Doctors for America health policy blog Progress Notes.  This month, I wrote about the ethics of student run free clinics–who will be served when the impoverished uninsured get health insurance through expanded Medicaid? Will free clinics be…

September 20, 2013 in ethics, health policy, insurance, student run free clinics.

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