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Private Equity and Wheelchair Services: How to Address a National Crisis

NonProfit Quarterly

In Connecticut, despite a 2024 law mandating a 10-business-day deadline and eliminating prior authorization for wheelchair repairs, many users continue to experience significant delays. million in April 2023 to settle allegations of defrauding federal healthcare programs in Illinois. Colorado passed a similar law two years earlier.

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The Promise and the Power of Social Cooperatives

NonProfit Quarterly

A Care Cooperative in Quebec City Meets Community Health Needs This year’s Cigale music festival , held over three days in August at Baie de Beauport beach in the Port of Quebec, was a great success. The SABSA healthcare cooperative is one of over 11,000 enterprises in the province of Quebec’s distinctive social economy. “We

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Addressing the Healthcare Needs of Justice-Involved People

NonProfit Quarterly

Due to the mass incarceration of Black and Latinx people, a disproportionate number of justice-involved people seeking care are from these communities—the groups most likely to also encounter discriminatory practices in health systems. Under the Affordable Care Act, they are also barred from enrolling in a marketplace health plan.

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Is Your Health Insurer Breaking the Law?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: AntonioGuillem on istock.com Despite hundreds of state laws meant to protect health insurance consumers—patients, in other words—from denials of legitimate claims for coverage, health insurers are routinely flouting these laws and illegally denying coverage in even life-threatening situations.

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Why Guardianship Reform Is a Civil Rights Imperative

NonProfit Quarterly

How Guardianship Fails the Most Vulnerable The current guardianship system is flawed and carries profound human consequences, as well as straining an already overtaxed healthcare system. Nonprofits can also engage in sustained legislative advocacy to reform the foundational assumptions embedded in guardianship law.

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? 3 By law, these must remain anonymous when used. Neuroscience, broadly, deals with the nervous system and the brain, including mental health. 10 Only 35.1

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How Private Equity Is Swallowing Up Health Care—And What to Do About It

NonProfit Quarterly

Understanding the role private equity is playing in health care is critical; only then can we begin to design solutions to the healthcare system that center public and community ownership. trillion is spent on healthcare (18.3 trillion is spent on healthcare (18.3 A Growing Menace In the US, a staggering $4.3

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