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The Ill Health of Rural Hospitals in Four Charts

Health Populi

That number is down by 19 in the 2019 calendar year, the worst year of rural hospital closings seen in the past decade. hospitals are in poor fiscal health. Ultimately, they synthesize into capital access and funding, providing services to attract and treat patients, and affiliate with larger systems as well as government control.

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Large Employers’ Focus on Prescription Drugs: Costs, Coupons and Communication

Health Populi

Employers cited several main tactics to address coupon cards looking forward from 2019 to 2022. One-third of employers were already doing this in 2019, with another 20% adding in 2020 and 16% considering for 2021-22. Federal government Blueprint for reducing prescription drug costs. Across party identification, U.S.

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While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

Health Populi

Rising health care costs continue to concern most Americans, with one in two people believing they’re one sickness away from getting into financial trouble, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted for The Physicians Foundation. health care system every other year.

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National Health Spending Will Reach Nearly 20% of U.S. GDP By 2027

Health Populi

National health spending in the U.S. every year from 2020 to 2027, the actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services forecast in their report, National Health Expenditure Projections, 2018-2927: Economic And Demographic Trends Drive Spending And Enrollment Growth , published yesterday by Health Affairs.

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Immigration Bureaucracy Threatens 11-Year-Old’s Spot on Transplant Lists

Kaiser Health News

It’s a category in which the government says it will defer trying to deport someone so they can deal with a severe illness. “Deferred action is not a visa, it’s just a decision from the government not to deport.” Those numbers plummeted in 2019.

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As Nonprofit Hospitals Reap Big Tax Breaks, States Scrutinize Their Required Charity Spending

Kaiser Health News

KFF Health News reported last year that more than 100 million Americans are saddled with medical bills they can’t pay, and has documented aggressive bill-collection practices by hospitals, many of them nonprofits. in charity care, while for-profit hospitals provided $3.80.

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A Different Future Was Possible: Reflections on the US Pandemic Response

Bill of Health

conservative movement, convened by the Council for National Policy, organized a campaign to fight against public health measures nearly a year before vaccines or outpatient treatments were available to the general population. years below 2019 levels, largely due to COVID-19 deaths. states had fully banned indoor dining.

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