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The ARP will help support hospital patient revenues by reducing the number of those who are uninsured.
Passage in the Senate appears unlikely, with the GOP favoring a slimmer, $500 billion package.
Health insurance losses could create lasting ripple effects in the healthcare industry, including decreases in hospital revenue and job losses.
Phases 2 and 3 of vaccine clinical trials are expected by early summer and their success will be known by early winter, Fauci says.
The groups support opening a special enrollment period for the health insurance marketplaces of the Affordable Care Act.
Nearly 75 percent of people who lost their employer-sponsored health insurance when they lost their jobs over the last two years said that they skipped needed healthcare or did not fill prescriptions because of cost, according to a new Commonwealth Fund brief.
Growth in national health expenditures may have increased faster last year than the growth in the Gross Domestic Product, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
As more people become eligible for COBRA health coverage due to layoffs, a smaller percentage of them are actually signing up, according to Spencer’s Benefits Reports 2009 COBRA Survey.
The House has passed its version of the $819 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill.
A new study by the Commonwealth Fund shows 9 percent of newly unemployed workers took advantage of extended healthcare coverage available under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) of 2006.
