Poll found that 43 percent of Americans viewed the law favorably – down from 50 percent in July – while 45 percent held unfavorable views. But voters more concerned about economy than the new health law.
Some health providers are offering patients health-care credit cards to help pay for care. But some patients charge they’ve been swindled.
Reform forces insurers to cover basic benefits, restricts their ability to mistreat consumers, and limits what they can spend on overhead: bad news for the inefficient.
While we tend to think of the homeless as single men living on the street—because those are the homeless we see—55 percent of the homeless in King County are, in fact, families with children.
Medicaid expansion to cover more working poor. Funding to boost community health clinics. Incentives to encourage more to pursue primary care careers.
Project Homestead aims to help 15 low-income, “high-needs” homeless King County families find permanent homes.
Many homeless people now ineligible for Medicaid will be covered in 2014 when Medicaid expands under the new health law to include adults without children.
Organizers will giveaway free backpacks to the first 200 students to participate in the clinic.
Seniors are staying in their homes with the help of networks of friends and family’s called a “village”, which helps them manage tasks the can no longer handle on their own.
Electronic monitoring devices can help families keep watch over aging relatives who are living alone.
Using motion sensors and cameras, family members can “check-in” over the Internet to make sure elderly relatives are O.K.
New homes built with “universal design” allow the elderly and disable to stay in their homes and live independently.
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