Bill of Health

JANUARY 20, 2022

has been the failure to meet surging demand for inpatient care. Hospital bed shortages, overwhelmed intensive care nurses, and scarcities of needed medical equipment have been embarrassing but constant features of the American health care landscape. By Barak D. Richman and Steven L.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Some of the decline in service volumes has been for screenings and preventive care, which will result in underdiagnosis of, for example, cancer conditions further downstream — with more acutely, advanced cases requiring more aggressive (and potentially expensive) treatments. health care? Walmart) to do so, as well.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 5, 2023

By Hannah Rahim Algorithms used in health care have the potential to improve health outcomes but are susceptible to racial bias , which can have detrimental consequences for minority populations. Involvement of state governments State Attorneys General in California and D.C.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 15, 2023

Covered entities include various federally funded clinics and hospitals that serve low-income patients. Monsanto , where the Court held that no taking occurred where a party voluntarily agreed to relinquish trade secrets in exchange for a government license to sell a product.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2019

Examples of these in the current news cycle are Zolgensma, which is priced about $2 million to treat spinal muscular atrophy, and CAR-T therapy which can run as high as $1 million all-in for the treatment and hospital service costs for the patient. Federal government Blueprint for reducing prescription drug costs.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Cost was ranked as the top issue negatively impacting patient care in this survey, identified by 86% of U.S. Related to costs, consumers were asked about factors they believe drive up health care spending. The study also addressed the politics of health care leading up to the 2020 Presidential election.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 20, 2023

Bridget Narsh’s son, Mason, needed urgent help in January 2020, so she was offered the chance to send him to Central Regional Hospital, a state-run mental health facility in Butner, North Carolina. Mason, now 17, was hospitalized for more than 100 days in Central Regional over two separate stays that year, documents show.

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