Kennedy’s MAHA strategy will not be released to the public immediately
Farmers, food manufacturers, chemical companies, anti-vaccine activists and MAHA moms — all waiting anxiously for the release of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s strategy for “making children healthy again” — will have to wait a bit longer.
A spokesperson for the Make America Health Again Commission said that it will take more time to coordinate officials’ schedules to release the report to the public.
The upcoming MAHA policy recommendations are expected to suggest a restructuring of the government’s response to childhood chronic diseases and will have wide-ranging implications for food, farm and health policy.
IHPC recommends brushing up on the Cover My Care provision of the Affordable Care Act
Section 2706 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) prohibits health plans and insurance issuers from discriminating against healthcare providers who are acting within their state-licensed scope of practice. This means that health plans cannot exclude or restrict access to certain types of providers based solely on their professional license or certification, as long as they are practicing within their legal scope of practice.
Ending health insurance discrimination against licensed providers of healthcare services is one of the most important objectives of IHPC’s policy work. But there is some recent concern among IHPC partners that insurance providers may be sliding back on their coverage.
As such, now is a good time to brush up on this federal statute and the CoverMyCare network of state-based advocates, practitioners, patients and policy experts who continue to advocate and work for consumer access to all safe and effective licensed services. Ideas and guidance are available in this IHPC 2706 Tool kit.
Alice’s wonderland: Walmart’s heiress builds new medical school with a vision
Alice Walton is starting a healthcare revolution in Bentonville, Arkansas.
In the heart of Ozark country, the heiress to the massive Walmart fortune has built an independent, not-for-profit medical school from the ground up. Her goals? To re-humanize medicine, put holistic principles at the core of medical education, and expand access to high-quality healthcare in one of the nation’s most medically underserved regions.
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