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Report: Suburban Poverty and the Health Care Safety Net

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Center for Studying Health System Change – Suburban Poverty and the Health Care Safety Net, Research Brief No. 13, July 2009, Laurie E. Felland, Johanna Lauer, Peter J. Cunningham

  • Although suburban poverty has increased in the past decade, the availability of health care services for low-income and uninsured people in the suburbs has not kept pace. According to a new study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) of five communities—Boston, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Miami and Seattle—low-income people living in suburban areas face significant challenges accessing care because of inadequate transportation, language barriers and lack of awareness of health care options. Low-income people often rely on suburban hospital emergency departments (EDs) and urban safety net hospitals and health centers. Some urban providers are feeling the strain of caring for increasing numbers of patients from both the city and the suburbs. Both urban and suburban providers are attempting to redirect patients to more appropriate care near where they live by expanding primary care capacity, improving access to specialists, reducing transportation challenges, and generating revenues to support safety net services. Efforts to improve safety net services in suburban areas are hampered by greater geographic dispersion of the suburban poor and jurisdictional issues in funding safety net services. To improve the suburban safety net, policy makers may want to consider flexible and targeted approaches to providing care, regional collaboration to share resources, and geographic pockets of need when allocating resources for community health centers and other safety net services and facilities.”

    • New GAO Reports: Biological Research, CMS, Defense Acquisitions

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    Biological Research: Observations on DHS’s Analyses Concerning Whether FMD Research Can Be Done as Safely on the Mainland as on Plum Island, GAO-09-747, July 30, 2009 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: CMS Should Develop an Agencywide Policy for Translating Medicare Documents into Languages Other Than English, GAO-09-752R, July 30, 2009 Defense Acquisitions: Opportunities Exist… Continue Reading

    NY Attorney General Cuomo Releases Bank Bonus Report

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    NO RHYME OR REASON: The ‘Heads I Win, Tails You Lose’ Bank Bonus Culture, Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General, State of New York [Report Was Previously Transmitted to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Chairman Edolplhus Towns (D-NY)] “Through various inquiries, the New York State Attorney General’s Office has been examining the causes of last… Continue Reading