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Care for the Poor
| Church Teaching |
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Identifies the marginalized and vulnerable
Keywords: Immigrants, Refugees, Vulnerable | | Directive 1 (23K)
Catholic health care community | | Directive 23 (23K)
Scope of human dignity | | Article/Commentary |
| Always With Us: Caring for Those Who are Poor (232K)
This CHE document provides recommendations and a values-based decision-making model for making choices related to caring for those who are poor. |  | ER docs: No pay, no care?
Hospitals wrestle with problem of specialists demanding wages for 24/7 availability | | Near Elderly health coverage, trends, experiences
New Reports Examine Near-Elderly Health Coverage Trends and Six Near-Elderly Uninsured Individuals' Experiences with the American Health Care System
Has 2 PDF documents avaliable | | Paying for Health Care When You're Uninsured: How Much Support Does the Safety Net Offer
Based on a survey of 6,884 uninsured people in 18 states, the study finds that most who receive medical care have enormous difficulty affording it, even at 'safety net' institutions with a mission to provide services to poor and uninsured individuals. 60% said they needed help paying their medical bills, and nearly half (46%) reported having unpaid bills or being in debt to the facility where they received care. Almost a quarter of debters said the debts would deter them from going back to the facility for care. Getting information about financial assistance programs helped -- the more likely staff offered such information, the less likely respondents were to be in debt. However, nearly half of the respondents (48%) said that staff “never” offered such help | | Suit Alleges Lack of Charity at Nonprofit Hospitals
Some of the country's largest nonprofit hospitals are targeted in class-action lawsuits alleging they have distorted the extent of their charity care while using punishing tactics to obtain payments from uninsured patients. The Washington Post
Keywords: Charity | | The Consequences of Medical Debt: Evidence from Three Communities
Qualitative and quantitative study that examines the impact of medical debt on the poor and their access to care. | | What Ails Us
More people lack health coverage, and nobody's sure what to do about it. The Arkansas Times |
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