
Where's My Health Insurance?
Posted on October 13, 2017 9:19 am MST, by Walker Ladd
federal health care cost-sharing subsidies for individuals at or below the poverty line will end. Individuals earning below $30,000 and families earning below $60,000 will lose necessary subsidies to offset the cost of coverage. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation brief, "While the federal government would save money by not making CSR payments, it would face increased costs for tax credits that subsidize premiums for marketplace enrollees with incomes 100-400% of the poverty level." Like you, I have been aware of the recent news that the
How might we respond? As the only Research Center dedicated to healthcare, as nearly 130 scholar-practitioners, how can we work together to educate our community regarding these and other pressing issues?
Call for Engagement
CHER's new mission "invites faculty, students, and alumni to develop innovative health research expanding current paradigms of health, wellness, and healthcare system functioning". In line with this mission, I am calling for CHER Affiliate scholarly articles that address the current state of healthcare in one or more of the following areas:
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Practice
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Education
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Systems
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Innovation
300-500 words describing the landscape of current healthcare and what may lie in the future, will serve to educate our fellow scholars at the Research Hub, our students, and our University community. We must fight to not only keep our voice alive as a Center for Research but to increase the understanding of our vital place in the community of scholars.
Submit by October 20 to WalkerLadd@e mail.phoenix.edu
Additional content will be provided upon request.
Dr. Stephanie Holden shared the following insights.
How can we continue the application of scholarship and practice, education and advocacy, with less and less support? With increasing confusion, decreasing access, and an expanding workforce to be educated, I see leadership as critical. Leadership within our own communities, families, workplaces, and universities must become of the utmost importance. Through collaborative, engaged communication among all stakeholders, maybe we can prepare sustainable and flexible practices that will endure the constant threats of drastic change or catastrophe. We are the agents of change in the world of health and wellness. We just need to remember our potential and collaborate with the potential in others.
As someone who has been fighting the good fight in mental health for 17 years, I know first-hand the uphill battle. Like democracy, I suppose, reform is supposed to be slow, messy, and did I say slow???
I hope as Affiliates we continue to support one another.
Walker,
Excellent point on collaboration. I believe community-based participatory research (CBPR) and participatory action research are great research designs to engage stakeholders who will mostly benefit from research. Intermediary steps from focus groups to build effective program curricula, and gatekeepers input on recruitment, could help with sustainability of uptake.
Stephanie