HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT LAWS' S ON THE TOWN.

TOPICS: STATES, HEALTH REFORM, UNINSURED

AUG 02, 2013

Local news reports examine the consequences of the health law.

Dallas Morning News: Dallas Among thirty U.S. Counties That Stand to realize the foremost From Federal Health Law
Texas is home to over common fraction of the nation's thirty counties most in would like of swollen insurance coverage, together with Dallas, consistent with a liberal cluster. the middle for yank Progress Action Fund stratified twenty two American state counties -- together with Dallas -- as among the "30 worst" within the country. It cited residents' lack of insurance and poor health outcomes, like coronary failure deaths. in an exceedingly report discharged Thursday, the support cluster aforesaid several Republican U.S. House members "are doing everything they will to torpedo" the federal health law despite having several constituents WHO would take pleasure in new state health marketplaces which will open on October. 1 (Garrett, 8/1).

Health Policy Solutions (a Colo. news service): Richest Resort Counties Rank Worst For Health Coverage
Two elegant resort counties in Colorado have created an inventory of the fifty worst counties within the U.S. for operating those that live while not insurance. Eagle County, home to fashionable  Vail and Beaver Creek, stratified forty second worst among U.S. counties with nearly twenty nine % of individuals WHO earn between 138 and four hundred % of the poverty line living while not insurance.  … In Colorado’s resort cities, employees typically have multiple jobs, none of that comes with insurance. Even individuals earning tight salaries have to be compelled to pay such a lot cash on living expenses that several can’t afford insurance (Kerwin McCrimmon, 8/1).

Marketplace: making A Healthier city
In Camden, simply eight % of patients compose nearly forty % of the prices. The city's 3 hospitals are awarded nearly $3 million in federal grants to assist improve medical aid for the sickest and costliest patients. Brenner says the partnership among competitive  hospitals is simply one sign that the cheap Care Act is dynamical the business of health care. ... the foremost common emergency in an exceedingly city ER, colds and ear aches. Translation: not enough medical aid (Gorenstein, 8/1).

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