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Hall Render’s Health Provider News – January 21, 2022

Hall Render

UC San Diego Health pays $2.98M settlement over claims of unnecessary genetic testing. UCSF Health names new CEO. Newsom backs away from single-payer health care pledge. UVMHN highlights progress on health care Access Plan, announces additional steps for 2022.

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

Health Populi

that’s the prime problem cited by 55% of Americans one year ago in an Ipsos survey, In the UK, the NHS is primarily funded through taxation of the people, ensuring and insuring every health citizen’s health care access. In the U.S.,

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Come Together – A Health Policy Prescription from the Bipartisan Policy Center

Health Populi

Congress, they should take a page out of health care providers’ and payors’ growing understanding and embrace of the social determinants of health, taking the opportunity to bake health into public policies: food systems and agriculture, the environment, labor policy, housing, education and — to be sure — health care access.