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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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Love Is the Key to Democracy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Doing so means transforming our governing institutions, laws, regulations, and customs in a more fundamental way than tinkering around the edges with policy and programs. When everyday people, institutions, and government act in service, out of love for the particular needs of particular people, the benefits flow outward.

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Finance: AMA Pushes For Charity Care Accountability

The NonProfit Times

Image from [link] Members of the American Medical Association (AMA) voted to support greater oversight of nonprofit hospitals and standardization of charity care policies so financial assistance reaches patients in need. Hospitals are eligible for nonprofit status, which exempts them from income, property, and sales taxes.

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Why Organizers Need Mobilizers and Mobilizers Need Organizers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

knew that changing government policy towards asylum-seekers would require more than quick and large protests. A highpoint in the campaign was when medical staff at a Brisbane hospital refused to discharge “Baby Asha” , a one-year-old asylum seeker, out of concerns she would be returned to off-shore detention. However, GetUp!

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Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”

NonProfit Quarterly

The War on Drugs Is Personal The War on Drugs has been a half-century-long, concerted, militarized campaign led by the US government to enforce prohibitions on the importation, manufacture, use, sale, and distribution of substances deemed to be illegal, advancing a punitive rather than a public health approach to drug use.

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Puerto Rico: The Critical Role of Information and the Nonprofit Sector in Disaster Living

NonProfit Quarterly

Then, we’ve been trying to compare the information given by the federal government and the one been given by the Puerto Rico government, which was usually different in terms of the amount of money. The US government and FEMA recently changed the recovery process in Puerto Rico. The wording, the categories of the information.

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Philanthropy Needs More Disconfirmation Bias

Stanford Social Innovation Review

And in medicine, the practice of differential diagnosis helps medical professionals systematically identify the correct condition by considering and ruling out multiple potential diagnoses based on gathered evidence. The whole structure of the law is designed to evaluate which evidence is most compelling.