Healthcare: Lack of universal coverage, ‘human rights tragedy on a massive scale’

By approving a new political declaration at UN Headquarters during the high level meeting, Member States also pledged to take concrete action and provide the necessary funding to achieve the ambitious goal. The declaration – Universal Health Coverage: expanding our ambition for health and well-being in a post-COVID world – also saw governments promise to […]

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Is housing health care? State Medicaid programs increasingly say ‘yes’

KFF Health News  —  States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s exploding around the country: using scarce public health insurance money to provide housing for the poorest and sickest Americans. California is going the biggest, pumping $12 billion into an ambitious Medicaid initiative largely to help homeless patients find […]

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Scotland’s health minister told ‘NHS is not coping, GPs are struggling and primary care on its knees’ | UK News

Scotland’s health secretary has told the NHS is “not coping, GPs are struggling, and primary care is on its knees”. Neil Gray came under questioning at the Scottish parliament on Tuesday amid reports that the number of private GP clinics in Scotland has more than tripled since the COVID pandemic as patients have struggled to […]

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Ford government wins battle to keep health-care staffing shortage figures secret

The Ford government has won a privacy battle to keep the extent of its nursing, personal support worker and physician shortage secret after Ontario’s privacy watchdog ruled that revealing them could be economically damaging. In September 2022, Global News filed and subsequently appealed a freedom of information request with the Ministry of Health that included […]

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Former Psychologist in Southern Illinois Sentenced to Prison for Submitting False Medical Documents and Health Care Fraud | Crime and Courts

BENTON, Ill. — A former psychologist in southern Illinois was sentenced to 10 months behind bars after she reportedly submitted false medical documents, obstructed justice and alleged Medicare fraud. The United States Attorney’s Office Southern District of Illinois (USAOSDI) reported a district judge sentenced Theresa A. Kelly, 57 of Herrin, to prison after she pleaded […]

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