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Simon F. Haeder an Associate Professor of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy & Management in the School of Public Health at Texas A&M University. His research focuses on the politics and policies of access to health and health-protective services with a focus on administrative burden, provider networks, vaccinations, and school-based health services as well as the regulatory process. He was recently recognized by the American Political Science Association's Health Politics and Policy section with the David Kline Jones Distinguished Scholar Award. The award is given to a mid-career scholar who has made significant contributions to the field of health politics and policy through their commitment to important research, health equity, and teaching. Previously, he has been a fellow in the Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program, a national leadership development program supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to equip teams of researchers and community partners in applying research to solve real community problems. He was also part of the inaugural cohort of the American Enterprise Institute's Emerging Poverty Scholars program as well as a Carl Albert Congressional Graduate Fellow at the University of Oklahoma.

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8.3 Policy, Ethics, And Research Governance

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United States Dept. Of Health And Human Services

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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8.1 Organisation And Delivery Of Services

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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Parent Attitudes About Childhood Vaccines (pacv)

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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8.1 Organisation And Delivery Of Services

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan (pcip)

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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5002 History And Philosophy Of Specific Fields

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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The Department Of Health And Human Services

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Centers For Disease Control And Prevention (cdc)

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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (snap)

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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University of Wisconsin - Madison - (Madison, Wisconsin, United States)

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California State University, Fresno - (Fresno, California, United States)

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California State University, Fresno - (Fresno, California, United States)

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University of Wisconsin - Madison - (Madison, Wisconsin, United States)

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California State University, Fresno - (Fresno, California, United States)

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Policies that Bind? The use of Guidance Documents by Federal Agencies

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More Than Words? How Highlighting Target Populations Affects Public Opinion about the Medicaid Program.

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House tax-and-spending bill and other Trump administration changes could make millions of people lose their health insurance coverage

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When is a network adequate? consumer perspectives on network adequacy definitions.

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Clinical Care Targeted Communications Group, LLC

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Why health savings accounts are a bust for the poor but a boost for the privileged

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If the Supreme Court strikes down the Affordable Care Act, Trumps health care order is not enough to replace it

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California hospital networks are narrower in Marketplace than in commercial plans, but access and quality are similar.

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Influence and the Administrative Process: Lobbying the US President's Office of Management and Budget

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Provider directory inaccuracy and timely access for mental health care.

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Clinical Care Targeted Communications Group, LLC

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How Intense Policy Demanders Shape Postreform Politics: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act.

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Merging Rural And Urban ACA Rating Areas Improved Choice, Premiums In Rural Texas.

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How 17M Americans enrolled in Medicaid and ACA plans could lose their health insurance by 2034

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How the latest effort to repeal Obamacare would affect millions

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Vaccine hesitancy among pet owners is growing  a public health expert explains why that matters

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Exploratory assessment of the parent attitudes about childhood vaccines survey tool to assess vaccine hesitancy and pet vaccination status among pet owners.

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American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)

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7 things President-elect Biden can achieve on health care

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Boeing 737 Max: The FAA wanted a safe plane  but didnt want to hurt Americas biggest exporter either

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Disconnects between provider network directories and patient preferences.

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Clinical Care Targeted Communications Group, LLC

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Americans bankrupted by health care costs: 4 questions answered

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Born in the USA: Having a baby is costly and confusing, even for a health policy expert

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Putting Health care Where the Kids Are: US Public Attitudes About School-Based Health Centers.

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Universal coverage, single-payer, Medicare for All: What does it all mean for you?

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The Demise of Community Responsibility: Unintended Consequences of Coverage Expansions on California Public Hospitals

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How the tax bill opens wide a big back door to overhaul health care

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Going the Extra Mile? How Provider Network Design Increases Consumer Travel Distance, Particularly for Rural Consumers.

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Out of the public's eye? Lobbying the President's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

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Beyond the CBO score: How Trump Budget and the AHCA are dismantling Americas safety net

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Why letting Medicare negotiate drug prices wont be the game-changer for health care Democrats hope it will be

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Assessing vaccine hesitancy and support for vaccination requirements for pets and potential Spillovers from humans.

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Why the Texas ruling on Obamacare is on shaky legal ground

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Handmaidens of the legislature? Understanding regulatory timing

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Directory Accuracy and Timely Access in Maryland's Medicaid Managed Care Program.

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Essential health benefits suddenly at center of health care debate, but what are they?

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US seniors' intention to vaccinate against RSV in fall and winter 2023-2024.

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Medicaid managed care organizations' experiences with network adequacy.

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Shots at school? Public attitudes about vaccination services in schoolbased health centers

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Provider directory inaccuracy and timely access to physical therapy

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What the Trump budget says about the administrations health priorities

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If Obamacare goes away, here are eight ways your life will be affected

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How bills to replace Obamacare would especially harm women

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Lingering Legacies: Public Attitudes about Medicaid Beneficiaries and Work Requirements.

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Poor US pandemic response will reverberate in health care politics for years, health scholars warn

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You Can't Make Me Do It, but I Could Be Persuaded: A Federalism Perspective on the Affordable Care Act.

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Making the Affordable Care Act Work: High-Risk Pools and Health Insurance Marketplaces

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Persistence of provider directory inaccuracies after the No Surprises Act.

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Clinical Care Targeted Communications Group, LLC

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Secret Shoppers Find Access To Providers And Network Accuracy Lacking For Those In Marketplace And Commercial Plans.

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Thinking the Unthinkable Buying and Selling Human Organs

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A Knotty Problem: Consumer Access and the Regulation of Provider Networks.

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Why state-level single-payer health care efforts are doomed

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Assessing past and future COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States in light of federal policy changes.

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Assessing the Effect of Deservingness Cues on Tolerance for Administrative Burdens

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Most Americans support minimizing administrative burdens for Medicaid recipients as the public health emergency ends.

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Trust in veterinarians and association with vaccine information sources and vaccination status among dog and cat owners.

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American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)

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U.S. public support and opposition to vaccination mandates in K-12 education in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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I paid into it with every paycheck I earned: How benefit type and beneficiary contributions shape attitudes about increasing or decreasing administrative burdens for social protections

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Stability and policy threats: US public opinion after a decade of the Affordable Care Act

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Massive cuts to Health and Human Services workforce signal a dramatic shift in US health policy

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The struggle for coal miners health care and pension benefits continues

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Public Attitudes toward Premiums in the Medicaid Program: The Role of Race, Ethnicity, and Deservingness.

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Why thousands are getting hit with unexpected medical bills

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Shared Stigma: The Effect of LGBT Status on Attitudes About the Opioid Epidemic

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Why the extreme reaction to Obamacare could be the new normal in American politics

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Medicaid work requirements would leave more low-income people without health insurance  but this policy is unlikely to pass this time around

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How undoing Obamacare would harm more than the health of Americans

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Political Science and US Health Policy in the Era of the Affordable Care Act

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When Adolescents are in School During COVID-19, Coordination Between School-Based Health Centers and Education is Key.

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How Trump and Tom Price can kill Obamacare without the Senate

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Mixed signals: The inadequacy of provider-per-enrollee ratios for assessing network adequacy in California (and elsewhere)

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Provider directory accuracy and timely access to mammograms in California.

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Affordable Care Act enrollment in Texas after rating area adjustments.

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Clinical Care Targeted Communications Group, LLC

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Monetizing Bowser: A Contingent Valuation of the Statistical Value of Dog Life (vol 113, pg 1512, 2019)

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Insurance acceptance and cash pay rates for psychotherapy in the US.

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What methods do patients use to schedule medical appointments?

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Medicaid work requirements: Where do they stand after the blue wave?

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The Power of a Tweet? Social Media, Presidential Communication, and the Politics of Health

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Heading into Iowa: Where do the Democratic candidates stand on health care coverage?

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Secret shopper survey indicates that veterinarians are split on how to respond to vaccine-hesitant dog owners.

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American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)

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Prescription drug costs would have been a major campaign issue, so what will happen now that coronavirus is center stage?

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Embattled Past, Uncertain Future: Law, Science, and Policymaking at the US Food and Drug Administration

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Estas son ocho maneras como tu vida ser afectada si Obamacare desaparece

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Balancing adequacy and affordability?: Essential Health Benefits under the Affordable Care Act.

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Consumer experiences navigating health care provider directories and support of federal policy action

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What happens when the federal government eliminates health coverage? Lessons from the past

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Network Adequacy Standards and Health Insurance--Reply.

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US Public Opinion About Reproductive Health Care in School-Based Health Centers

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You Can't Make Me Do It: State Implementation of Insurance Exchanges under the Affordable Care Act

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A Consumer-Centric Approach To Network Adequacy: Access To Four Specialties In California's Marketplace.

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US health care system: A patchwork that no one likes

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Trump isnt letting Obamacare die; hes trying to kill it

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Ten health policy challenges for the next 10 years.

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Inaccuracies in provider directories persist for long periods of time.

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Just say no? Public attitudes about supportive and punitive policies to combat the opioid epidemic

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The US could have ended up with a British-style health care system: Here is why it didnt

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Who's to Blame? How Recipient Deservingness Influences Attitudes About Access to the Organ Transplants

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A Look Under the Hood: Regulatory Policy Making and the Affordable Care Act.

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As rural Americans struggle for health care access, insurers may be making things worse

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Republicans attacking Obamacare, one more time

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Biden administrations negotiated price cuts for 10 common prescription drugs likely to save Medicare billions, beginning in 2026

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When a school is more than just a school: Improving school-based health in the wake of COVID-19.

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Monetizing Bowser: A Contingent Valuation of the Statistical Value of Dog Life

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Why Government Fails so Often: And How It Can Do Better

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From Poor to Worse: Health Policy and Politics Scholars' Assessment of the U.S. COVID-19 Response and Its Implications

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Potemkin Protections: Assessing Provider Directory Accuracy and Timely Access for Four Specialties in California.

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Inaccuracies related to accepting new patient flags in Affordable Care Act plans' provider directories.

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How pre-existing conditions became front and center in health care vote

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The votes have been counted, the results are (mostly) in: Whats next for health care?

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How LongHeld Perceptions of Deservingness Continue to Shape Public Attitudes About Program Eligibility

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State Efforts to Regulate Provider Networks and Directories: Lessons for the Future.

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Race And Racial Perceptions Shape Burden Tolerance For Medicaid And The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

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Obamacares insurance safety net protects many of the millions losing their employer-provided health insurance  but not all

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Medicare starts a long road to cutting prices for drugs, starting with 10 costing it $50.5 billion annually  a health policy analyst explains why negotiations are promising but will take years

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Past experiences with surprise medical bills drive issue knowledge, concern and attitudes toward federal policy intervention.

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How killing the ACA could lead to more opioid deaths in West Virginia and other Trump states

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Why Democrats and health policy experts believe the Barrett confirmation rush is about getting rid of the Affordable Care Act: 3 essential reads

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Narrow Networks and the Affordable Care Act.

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Beyond Path Dependence: Explaining Healthcare Reform and Its Consequences

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Not just for the poor: The crucial role of Medicaid in Americas health care system

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Inching Toward Universal Coverage: State-Federal Health-Care Programs in Historical Perspective

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Quality Regulation? Access to High-Quality Specialists for Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries in California.

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US public opinion about reproductive health care in school-based health centers.

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Presidentially Directed Policy Change: The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs as Partisan or Moderator?

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Clock running out on health program for 9 million kids

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Secret shopper survey reveals generally reasonable access to preventive veterinary appointments for dogs, with notable gaps in rural areas and for other outliers.

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American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)

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How much for an amputation or checkup? It takes a complex formula and a committee of doctors to set the price for every possible health care procedure

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Response to CEO killing reveals antipathy toward health insurers  but entire patchwork system is to blame for ill feeling

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Medicaid work requirements: Is there a path forward that could help the poor, not harm them?

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Short-term health plans: A junk solution to a real problem

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Inadequate in the Best of Times: Reevaluating Provider Networks in Light of the Coronavirus Pandemic.

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Whats the value of your dogs life, and why it matters

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A Tale of Two Programs: Access to High Quality Providers for Medicare Advantage and Affordable Care Act Beneficiaries in New York State

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Joining the herd? U.S. public opinion and vaccination requirements across educational settings during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Time to stop using 9 million children as a bargaining CHIP

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US public opinion about interior border checkpoints and health care access for undocumented immigrants.

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Quality Advantage? Provider Quality and Networks in Medicare Advantage

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Assessing parental intention to vaccinate against COVID-19, influenza, and RSV in the United States in late 2023.

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Assessing burden tolerance amid the Medicaid Great Unwinding

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Why the US has higher drug prices than other countries

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Mine wars: The struggle for coal miners health care and pension benefits comes to a head

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Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision Making

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Top-down and bottom-up approaches to health care quality: the impacts of regulation and report cards.