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What is health promotion?

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The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health.

Moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions

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What is disease prevention? How is it different from health promotion?

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goal is to delay disability and death and maximize illness free years of life

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What are the two components of health promotion? Describe them.

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educational and ecological supports for actions and condition of living conducive to health

Educational: any combination of learning and experiences

Ecological: social, political, economic, organizational, policy, regulatory, and
other environmental circumstances

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Describe US Public Health in the 1900’s

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sanitary inspections, communicable disease control

Expanded to fill in gaps in medical system through child immunizations, care of mothers and infants, school screenings, family planning

Fed. Gov. grants supported substance abuse, mental health, community prevention

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What are the roles of public health departments

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assessment
policy development
assurance

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What are the 2 components/types of prevention? Describe them

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Primary - goal is to prevent first occurrence
Ex: vaccines

Secondary - Early detection of a disease and intervening to prevent the condition from
progressing
Ex: mammograms

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What are the 5 parts of the health impact pyramid?

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  1. Socioeconomic factors
  2. Changing the context to make individuals default decision healthy
  3. Long-lasting protective interventions
  4. Clinical interventions
  5. Counseling and Education
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List determinants of health

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● Income and social status
● Social support networks
● Education
● Employment/working conditions
● Social environments
● Physical environments
● Personal health practices and coping skills
● Healthy child development
● Biology and genetic endowment
● Health services
● Gender
● Culture

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top 4 causes of death in 2022 (US)

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  1. Heart disease
  2. Cancer
  3. Unintentional injury
  4. COVID-19
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List health promotion interventions that need to occur

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  1. excise taxes
  2. clean indoor air ordinance
  3. elimination of nicotine in tobacco
  4. warning labels on tobacco products
  5. counter-marketing
  6. ban. on tobacco advertising
  7. protect kids from advertising
  8. FDA regulations
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Who is most likely to smoke cigarrettes?

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People with a GED

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What is Strong4Life?

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Campaign for Obesity in Georgia

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What does the medical model of chronic disease prevention assume?

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individuals have a primary role in causing illnesses through poor health behaviors (diet, smoking, alcohol)

Prevention focuses on changing individual health behavior

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What does the public health model of chronic disease prevention assume?

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Assumes that society creates the conditions leading to disease

Ex: Easy access to alcohol
○ Large tobacco industry
○ Availability of high fat/salt foods
○ Dependence on automobile that decreases exercise
○ Unequal distribution of wealth

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What are 3 illness prevention / health promotion strategies?

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  1. Address the basic social determinants of illness
  2. Increase public health spending
  3. Provide primary and secondary prevention
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What are the 4 parts of Guidelines for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

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  1. take a long term view
  2. demonstrate how behavior change enhances health
  3. encourage societal common good
  4. make efforts affordable
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Percent of HealthCare dollars spent on prevention ***

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2.6%

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What are the causes of homelessness? ***

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Structural trends: housing and social policy
Personal / familial vulnerability
Household income
Social policy
Job opportunities/ unemployment
Housing availability and cost

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How many homeless people in Boston in 2024? How many were unaccompanied youth? ***

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Total # in 2024: 29,435
Unaccompanied youth: 1800

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What is the McKinney Homeless Assistance Act? ***

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Passed in 1987 to provide funding for homeless people

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What are 4 health problems Occuring More Frequently due to homelessness? ***

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Exposure-related
- Frostnip/bite
- Immersion foot
- Heat stroke

Arthropod infestations

Infections
- TB, respiratory infections, cellulitis, HIV, hepatitis, STIs

Violence and Injury

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What are 4 Health Problems Exacerbated by Homelessness? ***

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Cognitive impairment/TBI
Substance use disorders
Cardiometabolic syndromes
Dental caries

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What are challenged homeless people face in getting healthcare? ***

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  1. Insurance access
  2. Competing priorities
    ■ Housing, addiction, etc
  3. Practical challenges
    ■ Med storage/admin
    ■ Transportation
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Describe transitionally homeless. ***

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Often homeless due to a single catastrophic event
Young population
Lowest level of mental health, substance abuse, or other medical problems
Enter shelters for short period of time

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Describe episodically homeless. ***
Episodic uses of shelter system Nonshelter time can be spent in jails or hospitals Compromise 12% shelter users Younger population Complex life histories Often with mental health, medical, and substance use problems
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Describe chronically homeless ***
Middle aged to older High prevalence mental illness, medical, substance use problems , medical illness, and disabilities Use shelters long term Long term unemployment Socially marginalized and high cost
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Define homelessness.
Homelessness occurs when people or households are unable to acquire and/or maintain housing they can afford
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Where do 1/2 of all people experience homelessness (4 states)?
CA, NY, FL, and WA
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How much more likely are homeless people to be admitted to the hospital?
5x more
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What are the top 3 causes of death in homeless (BHCHP)?
1. drug overdose 2. cancer 3. heart disease
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Characteristics of those most likely to be uninsured in 2004 prior to Chapter 58 law ***
Male Young Low income Minority Employed
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The five key components of the Chapter 58 law ***
1. Medicaid expansions (MassHealth) 2. Subsidies for private coverage (Connector Care) 3. Online marketplace 4. Individual mandate 5. Employer Mandate
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What was the Dukakis Universal Health Care Law (“Pay or Play”)?
Companies have to provide health insurance or they pay a fund (Fund pays for uninsured workers) Includes student health insurance mandate Never implemented!!
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Did Chapter 58 improve health outcomes?
yes
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What did Ch 58 inspire?
Title I of ACA
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What is a single-payer plan?
single government fund within each state to pay hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare providers
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What is a government-financed plan?
money is collected through taxes or premiums by a public fund that pays healthcare providers
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pros and cons of single-payer plan ***
Supporters: Insures everyone Could reduce administrative costs Relieves employers of providing insurance to employees Employees could gain more choice in providers and plans No loss of insurance when change jobs Opponents: View it as an invitation to bureaucracy Fives gov’t too much power over people’s health choices Shift from private payment to taxes would be unacceptable
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pros and cons of a government financed plan ***
Supporters say: Could reduce administrative costs Employers would not need to provide health insurance to employees Consumers would have greater choice of physicians Opponents say: Society will not accept taxes needed to run it Public mistrusts the government
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pros and cons of employer mandate plan ***
Supporters say: Needed to raise enough funds to insure the uninsured without large tax increase Less disruptive to extend this process Opponents say: Unfair to small businesses
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pros and cons of Individual mandate ***
Employers freed from providing health insurance Stable source of health insurance regardless of employment, changing jobs, disability Opponents say: Inefficient to have each individual buy their own insurance Lower income families would still have issue of affordability even with tax credits Uninsured (especially seniors and sick people) would have higher out-of pocket health costs with tax credits as compared to staying uninsured
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Describe Employment Mandate Model of NHI- The first plan-Nixon’s plan ***
Forced employers to provide health insurance Proposal failed
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Describe Individual Mandate Model of NHI- 1989- Sponsored by the Heritage Foundation. ***
Individual insurance mandate No longer would health insurance be tied to employment, would include tax credits for people unable to purchase insurance or a voucher system.
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Describe Massachusetts Individual Mandate plan of 2006 ***
States first individual mandate Penalty for not having insurance subsidies offered Some people could not afford it
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Describe Pluralistic Reform Model – Affordable Care Act 2010 ***
Individual and employer mandates for private insurance and expansion of Medicaid Tax penalty removed in 2017 Medicare for All proposed but failed American rescue act helped during covid
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What was the American Association for Labor Legislation Plan?
1915: AALL national health insurance proposal to provide medical care to low paid workers ... never passed
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What was the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill?
1943: Proposal for employer and employee contributions for cover medical care... social insurance proposal... never passed
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What was the 1970 Kennedy Bill?
draft to cover entire population through national health insurance program that would replace all public and private insurance plans ... never passed
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How is the NHS funded? How do doctors and hospitals get paid? ***
Taxes GPs get paid through capitation Specialists are salaried and use fee-for-service
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The NHS covers almost all costs of healthcare except ___ ?***
No deductibles or copays except for prescriptions drugs which can be waived for certain groups of people
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Who has access to the NHS system? ***
Anyone legally residing in the UK
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How does the cost of care and the outcomes compare to the United States? ***
Cost of care is less Outcomes are better
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On average what percentage of income is spent on health insurance in Switzerland?***
16%
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What is a weakness of the NHS? ***
Those with private insurance still have to pay into it
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Are co-payments higher or lower in Switzerland than the United States? ***
higher
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Is health insurance tied to your employment in Switzerland? ***
no
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What is Australia’s public health insurance plan called? How is it funded? Who is it available to? ***
Medicare” Paid for by taxes Available to all australians and permanent residents
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What role does the Swiss government play in insurance? ***
Give subsidies to help pay for insurance Individual mandate
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Why would Australians choose to buy private health insurance? ***
Access to elective care at the time they want it Better amenities
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Who sets prices for prescription drugs and treatments in Australia? ***
the government
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What is causing a strain on the health insurance system in Australia? ***
People are dropping their health insurance (typically younger people) → elderly suffer
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What type of health care system does Canada have? ***
Universal healthcare system
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Explain IDEA ***
Provides for federally funded Early Intervention Programs for Children at risk from birth of 3 years of age Requires special education services be provided for children with disabilities 3-21, if those disabilities affect the child's ability to participate in regular education
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Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act ***
Requires that appropriate accommodations be provided to permit children with disabilities to benefit from/participate in regular education. The child does not need to have special education services to qualify for accommodations.
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IEP Team – who is required to be on the team ***
Required participants: -Student’s regular classroom teacher(s) -Representative of the school administration -Student’s parent or guardian Other possible participants: -Special educator -School psychologist -Related services providers (OT,PT,SLP) -School nurse -Family advocate -The student
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IEP Team - Parental rights ***
To agree or disagree to having the school evaluate their child To request an outside (independent) evaluation To accept or reject the findings of the IEP team To accept or reject the proposed plan, in whole or in part Due Process: If there is disagreement, to go to mediation with the school, and if issues cannot be resolved in mediation, to have a court hearing. To have an advocate or lawyer present to represent their needs.
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what is FAPE
free and appropriate public education
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What is a disability?
“any person who has a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more major life activities”
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what is an appropriate education?
Education in regular classes Education in regular classes with the use of related aids and services Special education and related services in separate classrooms for all portion of the school day Special education may include: - Specially designed instruction in classrooms, at home, or in private or public institutions - May be accompanied by related services such as speech therapy, occupational and physical therapy, psychological counseling, and medical diagnostic services necessary to the child’s education
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what is the peer effect
academic growth is associated with skill level of classmates (or roommates) even when other factors like SES are controlled
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explain Robinson and Norton 2019
Children from historically marginalized groups are assigned to “less privileged” disability categories African American children are under-represented in DLD dx and overrepresented in ED/ID categories Over-representation in ID categories has led CA to ban the use of IQ measures for African American Children
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list IDEA categories
Intellectual Disability Hearing impairment, including deafness Speech or language impairment Visual impairment Specific learning disabilities Other health impairments Serious emotional disturbance Orthopedic impairment Autism Spectrum Disorder Traumatic brain injury Deaf-blindness/multiple disabilities Developmental delay (up to age 9)
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do children qualify for an IEP if they make adequate progress in the class even if they are disabled?
no
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Some Medical Issues that Might Require a 504 plan Without IEP
Food Allergies Diabetes Osteogenesis Imperfecta Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis Seizure Disorder Hearing Loss Vision Loss Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Challenges School Service Providers Face:
- Legally obligated to provide whatever the IEP includes --> financial burden - Clinical providers may make recommendations that do not meet the requirements of IDEA - Children fall through the cracks - poorly defined
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Essential features of the German health care system ***
- Division of health insurance into statutory (social) and private health insurance - mandatory - All insured individuals receive the same benefits
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Biggest challenges in financing statutory health insurance in Germany is ***
demographic change
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How much Germany spends on health care compared to other EU countries ***
Spends more than other EU countries except Norway
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Financing of the SHI through Contributions
Contributions in the SHI are income-dependent for its members. The general contribution rate in the SHI is 14.6 percent (with 50% covered by the employer)
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In-kind principle
Legally insured individuals of the SHI receive medical treatment without having to pay upfront. Doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies directly bill the health insurance funds for the therapies and medications
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Reimbursement principle
Private policyholders typically have to pay for medical services upfront, and then get reimbursed by the insurers
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The nurse shortage is a serious problem caused by ___ ***
burnout, poor working conditions, and low pay.
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In the second millennial decade ___ ***
the ACA reduced uninsurance but increased underinsurance Alternatives to fee-for-service care include ACOs and PCMHs There is renewed interest in primary care
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Budget Reconciliation Act- What is it, what reforms it included ***
Provide 24 hour care Enhance quality of life
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Who pays for long term care (LTC) ***
Medicare covers nothing for custodial care Medicaid covers nursing homes but not 24 hr custodial home care Private long term care insurance
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How can long term care be improved? ***
Develop social insurance Shift to community based care Train family members as caregivers Expand comprehensive acute and LTC organizations on On Lok
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Social insurance ***
Small payments when employed that go towards sickness, unemployment, and retirement
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On Lok program ***
Now called PACE Financed by capitations Able to provide comprehensive cost effective care to people 55 and older who qualify for nursing home care Minimizes costs through fewer acute care hospitalizations for residents
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ACA reforms for LTC ***
Community First Choice Option – assists states with the costs of in home programs for people who would otherwise be institutionalized Balancing Incentive Program – increases federal matching Medicaid funds in states with less coverage for home and community services 2014: husband and wives are able to keep more of their assets if a spouse must spend down to go onto Medicaid
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Overall proposals for LTC ***
Money Follows the Person (MFP): Rebalancing Demonstration Grant -Assists states in rebalancing their Medicaid long term care systems Medical homes
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What is Premium Assistance ***
Medicare will cover premiums for cost effective private plans
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What are the logistics of ESI ***
Health network Access to care Comprehensive coverage

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