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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

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health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act. These services are enumerated in Section 2713 in the ACA , prompting Dr. Kavita Patel to assert in the first panel of the day that, “2713 is my favorite number.”

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Tweets at Lunch with Paul Krugman – Health IT Meets Economics

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There’s an old saw that the US government is an insurance company with an army” quips @PaulKrugman @HIMSS #HIMSS18 #HX360 #Healthinsurance #Medicare #Healthcare #Healthcosts. The post Tweets at Lunch with Paul Krugman – Health IT Meets Economics appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. More #nurses than #miners #healthcosts.

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Healthcare Access and Cost Top Americans’ Concerns in Latest Gallup Poll

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The Gallup Poll , fielded in the first week of March 2018, found that peoples’ overall economic and employment concerns are on the decline since 2010, at the height of the Great Recession which began in 2008. And keeping a job usually means holding on to health insurance when the employee has been receiving it at work.

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