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Hall Render’s Health Provider News – February 25, 2022

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MaineHealth named one of America’s best large employers by Forbes magazine. Whitmer signs bills designed to lower prescription drug prices in Michigan. AARP study finds Omicron’s severe impact on Louisiana nursing homes. 67 rural hospital CEOs to know | 2022. Michigan aims to improve maternal and infant health.

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The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

Health Populi

prices are greater than in fellow OECD nations: wages are higher for specialist physicians, prices for digital imaging greater, and of course prescription drug prices the highest in the world. Much of this is due to the fact that U.S.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

While our health care trade press re-iterates Uwe Reinhardt’s and Gerard Anderson’s observation that, “It’s the prices, stupid” from back in 2003, closer to peoples’ homes and real lives, Consumer Reports and TIME magazine also try and support Americans’ health consumer muscle/brain) development and ethos.

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Health Provider News – November 11, 2022

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in prescription drug pricing case. Richmond nursing home named best in the state by Newsweek Magazine. Massachusetts system withdraws bivalent booster requirement. New Bedford man wins lawsuit against Alden Court nursing home for mother’s death. Express Scripts to shell out $3.2M Eight-hour waiting times.

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Rx 2018: A New Era of Specialty Drugs, Telehealth, Mobile Apps and Value, IQVIA Reports

Health Populi

President Trump made clear on the campaign trail and in his interview with TIME magazine as Person of the Year that pharmaceutical companies’ pricing needed to be reined in using government pressure.

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The United States of Diabetes: a $1,240 Tax on Every American

Health Populi

In typical markets, as products mature and get mass adoption, prices fall. But then prescription drug pricing doesn’t conform with how typical markets work in theory. Here’s a link to his interview with TIME magazine when he said, just days before taking his U.S. He said, “I’m going to bring down drug prices.

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The 2020 Health Populi TrendCast – HealthConsuming, TechLash, and Public Health Goes Private

Health Populi

The biggest known-unknown for 2020 is politics on the macro/national U.S. level, and then the tighter lens on health politics and health policy.