This report describes the primary features of single-payer systems, and it discusses some of the design considerations and choices that policymakers will face in developing proposals for establishing such a system in the United States. Download Document (Link)
“Medicare For All” as the best approach: We support universal access to a national health plan financed through a single entity and believe the existing Medicare program is the best vehicle to achieve that goal. To accomplish this, the current Medicare program must expand covered services and increase reimbursements to make a holistic system of
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What we know about Racism and Homelessness Download Document (PDF)
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Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) programs, a subset of community health centers that receive special populations funding to address the specific needs of vulnerable and medically complex patients, play a significant role in addressing the opioid epidemic by providing medication-assisted treatment (MAT). MAT, which combines one of three medications (methadone, buprenorphine, or naltrexone) with
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): Requirements for Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents RIN 0584-AE57 Download Document (PDF)
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Homelessness can take many forms, with people living on the streets, in encampments or shelters, in transitional housing programs, or doubled up with family and friends. While the federal government reports 1.5 million people a year experience homelessness, other estimates find up to twice this number of people are actually without housing in any given
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Medicaid expansion directly helped improve access to health coverage for homeless populations in states that expanded. Download Document (PDF)
