An inhaler that costs nearly $300 in the US goes for just $9 in Germany. What gives?
The 21st Century Cures Act requires that test results be released to patients even before their health care provider has reviewed them.
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Specialty prescription drugs are responsible for countless medical miracles, but their high price tag is the main reason health care costs are out of control.
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.
An empty wheelchair – or is there a person there we do not see?
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For many of the nation’s poor, food and shelter are more important than health care. Questions of insurance coverage loom broadly, but another question lingers: how to treat the poor we do not see.
Smoking kills close to 440,000 people in the U.S. each year.
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While many groups of people stand to lose health insurance benefits under the new health care bill, smokers would be particularly harmed. Here’s how cutbacks in cessation programs could harm them.