Posts Tagged: Assembly Health Committee

Opinion

Insurer tactics to delay care pushes health equity further away

Health care delays, image by Lightspring

OPINION – Long plagued by racism and discrimination, communities of color lag on many healthcare measures. Unfortunately, some insurance companies are erecting extraordinary barriers that will actually delay necessary treatment for patients — and exacerbate inequities.

News

The growing push for major action on mental health and homelessness

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A growing chorus of critics say well-intentioned but archaic laws – designed to protect individual rights, with stiff restrictions on what constitutes “grave disability” – prevent desperate families from getting severely mentally ill relatives into treatment, leaving them to suffer and die on the street.

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