When dementia patients on Medicare enroll in hospice, they lose other crucial supports and services.
A COVID-19 test in Utah. The country’s pandemic response has been politicized, making comprehensive changes to public health more difficult.
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Health policy and politics scholars expect political fallout from the federal response to the pandemic will play out for years, with trust in government taking a big hit.
Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigeig at the Oct. 15, 2019 debate at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio.
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Among the issues candidates will debate Tuesday night is health care – an important, yet confusing, topic for viewers. An expert simplifies, explaining where and what the candidates stand for.
Several Democrats running for president in 2020 support some version of Medicare for all.
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The Trump administration’s proposal to lower drug prices focuses on discounts. A health policy scholar argues that the US could learn from Europe’s system of measuring drug value and effectiveness.
More data may be key to disrupting health care.
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The opening session of a meeting of neurologists focused on a problem plaguing doctors: burnout. Doctors are growing increasingly stressed, and it’s affecting patients, too.
Dissatisfaction with private health insurance policies is growing.
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The AMA are pushing for simplified insurance packages that would see gold, silver and bronze products offered. This won’t solve the overall problem with private health insurance.
Hospitals might be penalised for every admission that could have been avoided, under a proposal floated by Greg Hunt.
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A plan to fine hospitals for avoidable hospitalisations and pay GPs to prevent them has many issues. The main problem is that it’s impossible to measure the outcomes of health care in Australia.
Decreased regulation has failed to reduce the growing administrative burden of health care.
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GOP lawmakers say their bills to replace the Affordable Care Act would do a better job than the ACA of controlling rising health care costs, but 40 years of deregulation show it just won’t work.
Rising marketplace premiums have led to calls for changes in the marketplace.
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Double-digit premium increases are leading to an outcry that the Affordable Care Act is not working, yet parts of it are. Here’s what works, and ideas on how to fix what doesn’t.