The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/health-care/page/2/)
On November 6, voters across New York’s 23rd congressional district will decide whether longtime representative Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) or Democratic challenger Tracy Mitrano J.D. ’95 will represent them in Congress.
The staple of Barack Obama’s 2008 election platform was healthcare reform. However, soon after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law, a majority of the American public supported its repeal. What happened? A landmark piece of legislation, many argue that the ACA brought the U.S. substantially closer to having a comprehensive healthcare system, an objective already accomplished by most high-income countries and one placed on many agendas since the Truman administration. Yet, as Prof. Suzanne Mettler, government, notes in her book, The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy, the ACA’s accomplishments went largely unnoticed by the American public, and despite the successful expansion of health insurance coverage to millions of Americans, Democrats in Congress suffered great losses in the 2010 midterm elections following the ACA’s enactment.
“Through a business opportunity, we reinforced with CGIU that our project will reduce costs because if diseases are diagnosed early with improved MRI efficiency, this will lead to less healthcare cost to treat these diseases, which solves a societal problem,” said Madhur Srivastava.
Rep. Reed was met with another furious crowd of constituents at his town hall in Ithaca.
Planned Parenthood supporters across the Southern Finger Lakes region assembled outside of Congressman Tom Reed’s Ithaca office downtown and protested the proposed GOP replacement for the Affordable Care Act on Tuesday.
Gannett Health Services remains unsure of the future of the Student Health Plan after a possible Affordable Care Act Repeal.