What Health Care Reform Means For People With Hiv

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What U.S. Health Care Reform Means for People With HIV

After a century of failed efforts, decades of debate, and months of partisan rancor, this past March, Congress finally passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act . The 2010... Read more »

Frequently Asked Questions: Health Care Reform and People Living With HIV

General Information How Will Health Care Reform Help People With HIV? Two key parts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or ACA, will significantly benefit people with HIV. First, there are important improvements and protections to... Read more »

Health Care Reform Principles for Meeting the Needs of People With HIV

Nearly 50 percent of people living with HIV in the U.S. (that are aware of their HIV status) do not have a reliable source of care -- many of them are uninsured or underinsured. 1 Thirty-six percent of people with HIV in this country develop AIDS... Read more »

Ask the Experts

Health care's weak reforms (HEALTH CARE REFORM, 2009)

Dr. Bob, I am a student and am currently uninsured. Considering that the fact that there are several people in my position, how can you be so supportive of the democratic party and their weak reforms to the financing of the United States health care...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,I understand your frustrations and agree the current health care reform bills making their way through Congress are far from ideal. Personally, I would have opted for a single payer system. That said, there is also reality to deal with. No doubt... Read more »

How will Medicare and Health Care Reform effect HIV + people

I am very worried about the effect the new health care reform will be for people with HIV and AIDS. I am on Cobra and also now disabled from AIDS complications. I will not be eligible for Medicare till 2011 though. When Cobra is over in June 2010, I...

Response from Lynn L. Franzoi

Worldwide Benefits for Fox, Inc.

It is really too soon to sya. The healthcare reform bills change almost daily. I anticipate that as we get closer to the end of the month we will have a clearer view.... Read more »

HEALTH CARE REFORM, WON'T IT BE BAD FOR HIV POSITIVE PEOPLE?

Dr. Bob,Why are you pushing Obama's health care reform? They are going to take over medical care, cut care to elderly folks like grandmothers and have panels to decide who lives and dies. I'm sure they will cut care to those of us with HIV...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello Zelda,Health care reform will not throw your granny off a cliff, nor will it cut off care to HIVers! In many ways we already have health care rationing that is not only unfair; it's morally reprehensible. (See Nicholas Kristof's... Read more »

Universal health care (HEALTH CARE REFORM, 2009)

Not a question, but a comment on a previous one.I live in the UK whose National Health Service has recently been the subject of comparison with the US private/insurance-based health provision. Whilst I do not claim that our NHS is perfect (and what...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,Thank you for sharing your real life experience. I hope it will diffuse some of the scare tactics that the insurance companies and rightwing Republicans have used to confuse and vilify the issue of health care reform here in the U.S.Dr.... Read more »

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How to fight HIV - Public Health Reform

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

http://www.monthlyreview.org/nfte0904.htm
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~josephwd/Cuba/delaVega.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2014854&dopt=Abstract

Many won't like this but I think... Read more »

How do you manage your health care?

Posted by ScotCharles, 3 Replies

HIV/AIDS is a complicated web of conditions made more complicated by the interaction of the meds on our body chemistries. I would think that a specialty would have developed over the last 25 years that focused on the long term management of people... Read more »

They passed the healthcare reform bill

Posted by themushroom, 1 Reply

Hope something good comes of it (it's about time) Read more »

i am a health care worker...

Posted by Anonymous

I am a health care worker in Baltimore. Every other patient that
I come into contact with in my clinic is an HIV or AIDS patient.
I would like everyone who has this disease to know that I pray
for a cure everyday, and do my best to help those who... Read more »

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