Linda Schwimmer and Healthcare Advocates Rally at State House in Light of ACA Repeal Defeat
President and CEO of New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, Linda Schwimmer, joins other healthcare advocates at the New Jersey State House August 1st to rally for a bipartisan solution in light of the recent Affordable Care Act Repeal failure. View the video below! http://www.njtvonline.org/news/video/new-jersey-healthcare-advocates-rally-preserve-aca/Read More…
Health Advocates and Activists Rally in Recognition of ACA Repeal Defeat
Call on the Administration to End Actions That Destabilize the Market Trenton – Health care advocates, including provider organizations, unions, and consumer groups, stood united at the Statehouse today to applaud last week’s defeat of three GOP proposals to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The groups called on President Trump to support the…Read More…
Grant money kicks off ‘Live Healthy Cumberland County’
Published on NJ.com. BRIDGETON — Community leaders and public officials kicked off “Live Healthy Cumberland County” with support from the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute (NJHCQI) and a $550,000 partnership grant from United Health Foundation. The effort aims to reduce chronic disease by increasing the number of healthy food items available at 27 local corner…Read More…
Health care advocate: new GOP bill ‘even more problematic’
Published on NJTV News. Despite revisions, the nonpartisan New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute finds serious gaps in the new version of Trumpcare. Its President and CEO Linda Schwimmer talks with Chief Political Correspondent Michael Aron. Aron: Linda, is this new Senate GOP health care bill any better than the one that Mitch McConnell presented…Read More…
Youth Teams Will Put Poor Communities In Touch With Better Health
Originally published on www.njspotlight.com by Lilo H. Stainton. A team of 15 dedicated high school students in Bridgeton, Cumberland County, spent last summer getting paid to build their leadership skills, connect low-income families to nutritious, free food, and improve the health and welfare of their struggling South Jersey city. The project — fueled in part…Read More…
How the GOP health bills could make N.J. look like Alabama
Published by Don Sapatkin on Philly.com. For New Jersey, the GOP health-care proposals in Washington could mean more than budgetary chaos and a million people going without insurance. The state could wind up with a higher share of uninsured residents than places like Alabama and Mississippi. The main reason: New Jersey long has worked to make coverage accessible…Read More…
Most adults have not completed a living will, Penn study finds
First published on newsworks.org by Elana Gordon. About one third of adults in the U.S. have filled out some kind of advanced directive, according to new research out of The University of Pennsylvania. Health leaders, meanwhile, say that’s a low percentage that can adversely affect people’s quality of life in their final days and months. An advanced…Read More…
Most N.J. voters support Planned Parenthood, coverage for birth control
First published by Susan K. Livio on NJ.com TRENTON — The majority of New Jersey voters believe insurance should cover birth control supplies and Planned Parenthood should continue receiving Medicaid reimbursement for family planning and other women’s health services, according to a poll released by Rutgers University Wednesday. The poll lands at a pivotal time…Read More…
NEW JERSEY VOTERS SUPPORT FEDERAL AND STATE FUNDING FOR LOW-INCOME WOMEN’S HEALTH, INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES
Voters largely positive about Planned Parenthood, aware of its services PRINCETON, N.J. — As officials consider changes to Medicaid funding at the state and federal levels, and as Congress weighs health insurance reform, large majorities of New Jersey registered voters want to maintain federal and state funding for women’s reproductive health services for lower-income women,…Read More…
Poll finds many in N.J. support state, federal funding for women’s health care
Originally published on NewsWorks.org: http://bit.ly/2snZZeX Many in New Jersey want to maintain federal and state funding for women’s reproductive health services for lower-income women, according to to a new poll of registered voters. A majority of those polled also support the American Care Act requirements related to such services, found the New Jersey Health Care…Read More…