A “Surprise” Health Policy Legislative Victory
It was a happy surprise when, overcoming partisan divisions and interest-group lobbying, Congress enacted the No Surprises Act, which bans unfair out-of-network “balance billing.” Although this is only a modest legislative victory, key efforts by the health policy community made a real difference in...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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The Hastings Center report
Year: 2021, Volume: 51, Issue: 6, Pages: 3 |
| Further subjects: | B
health policy
B balance billing B Bioethics B No Surprises Act B Health Insurance |
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| Summary: | It was a happy surprise when, overcoming partisan divisions and interest-group lobbying, Congress enacted the No Surprises Act, which bans unfair out-of-network “balance billing.” Although this is only a modest legislative victory, key efforts by the health policy community made a real difference in a time of legislative gridlock. |
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| ISSN: | 1552-146X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1002/hast.1301 |