The US doesn’t have universal health care — but these states (almost) do

State of Massachusetts (and New Mexico State Goverment

): Streamlined enrollment and state subsidies

Massachusetts has the lowest uninsured rate of any state: Just 2.4 percent of the population lacks coverage. It had a head start: The law provided the model for the ACA itself, with its system of government subsidies for private plans sold on a public marketplace that existed prior to 2010.

But experts say it still deserves credit for the steps it has taken since the Massachusetts model was applied to the rest of the country. Matt Fiedler, a senior fellow with the Brookings Schaeffer Initiative on Health Policy, said two policies stood above any others in expanding coverage: integrating the enrollment process for both Medicaid and ACA marketplace plans and offering state-based assistance on top of the law’s federal subsidies.

State of Minnesota and The State of New York : The Basic Health Plan states

The basic structure of the ACA was this: Medicaid expansion for people living in or near poverty and marketplace plans for people with incomes above that. But the law included an option for states to more seamlessly integrate those two populations — and so far, the two states that have taken advantage of it, Minnesota and New York, are also among those states with the lowest uninsured rates. Just 4.3 percent of Minnesotans and 4.9 percent of New Yorkers lack coverage today.

State of Colorado and State of Washington : Public options and assistance for the undocumented

These states have been inventive in myriad ways. They are both early adopters of a public option, a government health plan that competes with private plans on the marketplace, a policy also being tested in Nevada.

There is another policy that unites them, one that addresses a sizable part of the remaining uninsured nationwide: They both provide some state subsidies to undocumented immigrants.

Source - https://www.vox.com/policy/23972827/us-aca-enrollment-universal-health-insurance?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Issue:%202023-11-28%20Healthcare%20Dive%20%5Bissue:56809%5D&utm_term=Healthcare%20Dive

As at CPA and Data and AI Thought Leader - Close, Consolidate, and Reporting, I can add a bit more colour around healthcare, pharma, and biotech:

• Global there has been challenges with delivering of healthcare with value for money while improving the overall patient care. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/slideshows/countries-with-the-most-well-developed-public-health-care-system?slide=6 . I have commented on many blogs that healthcare model. This comes back to both data and having this data audited - https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/know/healthcare-challenges/patient-outcomes @amazing work by Wolters Kluwer
• Medical products continue to improve healthcare for patient including leverage technology. Amazing article by Forbes - https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2023/10/03/the-10-biggest-trends-revolutionizing-healthcare-in-2024/?sh=63c6b9a41d13 or https://www.medicalengineers.co.uk/9-trends-shaping-the-future-of-the-medical-device-industry
• Eliminating fraud and miss management throughout the medical supply chain - https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/transforming-healthcare-management-care-ai-bi-tools-lopez-molina/ or https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/business-analytics-and-audit-analyticspptx Many thanks to Arturo Israel Lopez Molina for the linked in post.
• Leveraging generative AI through proper secure assessment and policies related to hr and privacy - https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2023/next-level-care-generative-ai-poised-for-22b-growth-in-healthcare/
• WHO needs to be reform including more oversight through performance audits. WHO role is to mitigate the impact of virus and other diseases spreading outside of an area - https://www.safepaas.com/articles/auditing-reforms-in-2023-and-the-use-of-audit-analytics/
• Addressing policies that encourage health and wellness. https://hrdailyadvisor.blr.com/2023/05/24/why-employee-wellness-should-be-a-cornerstone-of-esg-strategy/
• Leverage data and AI as way to reduce the development cycle for medial and drug discoveries - https://www.techopedia.com/the-role-ai-can-play-in-pharmaceutical-discovery
• Reducing the drug costs as part of managing the overall healthcare dollars spent. https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/10/03/biden-harris-administration-moves-medicare-drug-price-negotiations-lower-prescription-drug-costs-people-medicare.html
• Healthcare sector adopting ESG - https://thethaiger.com/ph/news/554343/

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