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cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/14149201

Medicare is initiating an eight-year pilot project, GUIDE, to provide direct support to caregivers of dementia patients, aiming to alleviate the emotional and financial burdens they face. The program will provide care coordinators to assist families with managing symptoms, coordinating medical visits, and arranging short-term care, with the goal of keeping patients healthier and at home longer. This initiative is expected to reduce hospitalization rates and save Medicare money, although its long-term cost-effectiveness remains uncertain.

Medicare is initiating an eight-year pilot project, GUIDE, to provide direct support to caregivers of dementia patients, aiming to alleviate the emotional and financial burdens they face. The program will provide care coordinators to assist families with managing symptoms, coordinating medical visits, and arranging short-term care, with the goal of keeping patients healthier and at home longer. This initiative is expected to reduce hospitalization rates and save Medicare money, although its long-term cost-effectiveness remains uncertain.

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/14149198

A federal district court judge on Wednesday temporarily halted parts of a nondiscrimination rule that would have kept insurers and medical professionals from denying hormone therapy, gender transition surgeries and similar medical care for transgender people.

U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. sided with 15 states that had argued the language the rule was based on — the 1972 Title IX nondiscrimination law — encompasses biological sex, but not gender identity. Guirola’s injunction applies nationwide to the Affordable Care Act rule, which would have gone into effect Friday.

A federal district court judge on Wednesday temporarily halted parts of a nondiscrimination rule that would have kept insurers and medical professionals from denying hormone therapy, gender transition surgeries and similar medical care for transgender people.

U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. sided with 15 states that had argued the language the rule was based on — the 1972 Title IX nondiscrimination law — encompasses biological sex, but not gender identity. Guirola’s injunction applies nationwide to the Affordable Care Act rule, which would have gone into effect Friday.

One in eight people on Medicaid reported losing coverage under the safety-net insurance program about six months into redeterminations in four Southern states, according to a study published in JAMA Health Forum.
About half of the survey respondents who were unenrolled from Medicaid became uninsured in Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana and Texas, according to the study. Twenty-seven percent had employer-sponsored insurance at the time of the survey, and the rest found other coverage. 
Those who lost Medicaid coverage during redeterminations reported higher rates of delays and affordability challenges when trying to access care, according to the survey. 

A teenage stripper and various adult-entertainment businesses are suing Florida over the state’s newest law that raises the minimum age for workers.

On July 1, a new Florida law aimed to crack down on human trafficking took effect. Part of it called for those working at adult-entertainment businesses to be at least 21 years old. The businesses include sex shops, adult bookstores and strip clubs.

That led to a flurry of lawsuits including one from Serenity Bushey, 19, a dancer at a Florida club. Two strip clubs and a sex shop also filed a lawsuit over the law, according to WKMG.

Bushey argues in her lawsuit the law is in violation of her First Amendment rights to allow freedom of expression.

The dancer said she and eight other workers at her club lost their jobs because of the new bill.

Enforcement of a federal rule expanding anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ students has been blocked in four states and a patchwork of places elsewhere by a federal judge in Kansas.

U.S. District Judge John Broomes suggested in his ruling Tuesday that the Biden administration must now consider whether forcing compliance remains “worth the effort.”

Broomes' decision was the third against the rule from a federal judge in less than three weeks but more sweeping than the others. It applies in Alaska, Kansas, Utah and Wyoming, which sued over the new rule. It also applies to a Stillwater, Oklahoma, middle school that has a student suing over the rule and to members of three groups backing Republican efforts nationwide to roll back LGBTQ+ rights. All of them are involved in one lawsuit.

Broomes, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, directed the three groups — Moms for Liberty, Young America’s Foundation and Female Athletes United — to file a list of schools in which their members' children are students so that their schools also do not comply with the rule. Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, a Republican who argued the states' case before Broomes last month, said that could be thousands of schools.

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/14067826

A study found a lack of "housing is a huge stress for anyone." However, "when children experience this, especially in early childhood, it can affect their health years down the line." The Future of Families and Child Well-Being study found children "with any level of housing insecurity -- low or high -- had worse self-reported health at age 15 ... They also reported worse mental health." According to Healthy Steps National Director Rahil Briggs, the lack "of a safe and secure shelter creates 'chronic and unrelenting' stress for the parents or caregivers, which is then picked up by kids, as well."

A study found a lack of "housing is a huge stress for anyone." However, "when children experience this, especially in early childhood, it can affect their health years down the line." The Future of Families and Child Well-Being study found children "with any level of housing insecurity -- low or high -- had worse self-reported health at age 15 ... They also reported worse mental health." According to Healthy Steps National Director Rahil Briggs, the lack "of a safe and secure shelter creates 'chronic and unrelenting' stress for the parents or caregivers, which is then picked up by kids, as well."

Transgender women receiving hormone therapy may skew artificially low on prostate cancer screening tests, thereby providing false reassurance and potentially delaying diagnosis and treatment, according to a recent study published by Nik-Ahd et al in JAMA. The findings indicated that transgender women and physicians should interpret standard screening guidelines with caution.

Transgender women receiving hormone therapy may skew artificially low on prostate cancer screening tests, thereby providing false reassurance and potentially delaying diagnosis and treatment, according to a recent study published by Nik-Ahd et al in JAMA. The findings indicated that transgender women and physicians should interpret standard screening guidelines with caution.