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The Cost to Cover Health Insurance for a Family in America Is $22,221

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and post-pandemic job growth in 2021, the cost of health insurance premiums rose faster than either the price of goods or wages. That family health plan premium reached $22,221, an increase of 22% since 2016, we learn in the annual report from Kaiser Family Foundation, 2021 Employer Health Benefits Survey.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

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In the 19th and 20th centuries, segregated black hospitals were emblematic of separate but unequal health care,” begins the editorial introducing an entire issue of JAMA dedicated to racial and ethnic disparities and inequities in medicine and health care, published August 17, 2021.

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Happy 75th Birthday, NHS – Through A U.S. Health Care Lens

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Figure 6 from the King’s Fund report arrays health spending per capita data points from the OECD’s 2021 national survey, finding the UK (the red dot on the graph) to the left of the red average line on the x-axis for per capita spending and just north of the average line of spending as a share of GDP on the y-axis.

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Be prepared to drive to deliver Mount Sinai launches regenerative medicine outpost to translate research into medicines Northwell marketing chief joins Ad Council board Ribbon cut at Watertown’s new mental health urgent care Surgical communication platform raises $4.2

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Judge denies challenge to measure that would cap LA hospital exec pay COLORADO Builders show little interest in city, hospital employee housing project Capitol Pain Institute acquires 3 Colorado practices, ASC Colorado lawmakers seek financial information from hospitals in larger debate over health care costs Colorado to advance $1.4