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Walking A Tightrope: The State Of The Safety Net In Ten U.S. Communities, Marsha Regenstein, Lea Nolan, Marcia J. Wilson, Holly Mead, Bruce Siegel
Walking A Tightrope: The State Of The Safety Net In Ten U.S. Communities, Marsha Regenstein, Lea Nolan, Marcia J. Wilson, Holly Mead, Bruce Siegel
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
This report presents the findings from the Urgent Matters safety net assessments and identifies common characteristics, opportunities and challenges for communities that wish to better serve the health care needs of uninsured and underserved individuals. It also illustrates differences across many of the communities, especially in terms of the structure and financing of their safety nets. It is a companion report to the individual safety net assessments and provides an overarching perspective of problems that affect safety nets across the country.
An Assessment Of The Safety Net In Lincoln, Nebraska, Lea Nolan, Lissette Vaquerano, Karen C. Jones, Marsha Regenstein
An Assessment Of The Safety Net In Lincoln, Nebraska, Lea Nolan, Lissette Vaquerano, Karen C. Jones, Marsha Regenstein
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
This report examines key issues that shape the health care network available to uninsured and under-served residents in Lincoln. It provides background on the Lincoln health care safety net and describes key characteristics of the populations served by the safety net. It then outlines the structure of the safety net and funding mechanisms that support health care safety net services. The report also includes an analysis of key challenges facing providers of primary and specialty care services and specific barriers that some populations face in trying to access them.
The safety net assessment team's analysis of the Lincoln safety net …
Analysis Of State Laws Permitting Intoxication Exclusions In Insurance Contracts And Their Judicial Enforcement, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Henry Van Dyck, Mandy Bartoshesky, Joel B. Teitelbaum
Analysis Of State Laws Permitting Intoxication Exclusions In Insurance Contracts And Their Judicial Enforcement, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Henry Van Dyck, Mandy Bartoshesky, Joel B. Teitelbaum
Health Policy and Management Issue Briefs
This Policy Brief reviews judicial decisions construing state laws that permit insurers to include intoxication exclusionary clauses in their insurance policies. The cases and state laws examined in this analysis span health, life, disability, accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D), workers compensation, and unemployment insurance. Some variant of the intoxication exclusionary clause appears across all of these products, depending on the state. The widespread nature of such laws has its roots in the 1947 Uniform Accident and Sickness Policy Provision Law (UPPL), a model statute whose broader public policy purpose was to avoid the use of insurance to protect against the …