A study of medical costs and income losses found that those who can least afford to pay for health care and miss out on their paychecks rack up the biggest bills.
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From primary care to cancer screening and insurance coverage, gender-diverse people still face many hurdles to getting good medical care.
Such an expansive scheme is very expensive. It has been costed at A$77.6 billion over the next decade, funded with new taxes on big corporations and billionaires.
France’s per-capita death toll from Covid-19 is higher than the average for high-income countries. A lack of prevention and the initial rigidity of the French system are largely to responsible.
For some people, accessing their super early for fertility treatments is their only chance to start or extend their family. And they need better protection.
Hospitals have a lot of room to reduce, reuse and recycle supplies – as many were forced to discover during the pandemic.
What happens to unhoused people who get COVID-19?
Hispanics born in the US have worse health outcomes than Hispanics in the US who were born in countries from which they emigrated.
Reopening state economies too soon risks a second wave of the pandemic, and a surge in medical costs. Anyone who pays insurance premiums and taxes will be picking up the tab.
In the UK, nobody collects patients’ insurance information or credit card details. There’s simply no charge for services, including doctor visits, ambulances and hospitalizations.
Would you buy a pair of shoes without knowing the price? Consumers have bought medical care from hospitals for years without knowing the costs, but new regulations will change that.
There’s a very simple way to give Medicare to all: delete six words from the legislation that created the program in 1965.
Presidential candidates have been proposing plans to expand health coverage, lower prescription drug costs and make hospital bills more transparent. But few get to the real problem. Here’s why.
President Trump has been backing transparency in hospital pricing so that consumers can compare prices. But will that help when the real deals are done in secret?
How willing are people to accept medical care from a robot or an automated system? It depends on the procedure – and the price.
Electronic medical records were supposed to improve health care. Are they doing that? Two doctors describe the problems.
A cancer diagnosis is one of the scariest of all. The pain and fear are worsened by a confusing landscape of bills, opaque billing systems and changing insurance rules, rates and reimbursements.
The president should use his penchant for shaking up the status quo to tackle the genuine crisis in health care.
The Trump administration’s latest effort to undermine the Affordable Care Act is the expansion of short-term insurance plans. But these shorter plans are also short on real benefits.
A routine childbirth proves expensive and complicated. Insurance company adjustments, inconsistent billing and mystery costs flummoxed even a health policy expert and his wife, a teacher.
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Associate Professor of Public Health, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Health Finance, Weatherhead School of Management & School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of Economics, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Pharmacy, Queensland University of Technology
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Law, Deakin University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor of Medicine, University of Florida
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Professor of Surgery, Division of Public Health Sciences, Washington University in St Louis
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Professor emeritus, University of the Pacific
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Professor of Health Economics and Policy and Pharmaco-economics/pharmaco-epidemiology in the Departments of Health Administration & Management and Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria
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Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle
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2022-2024 Visiting Professor, Northeastern University, Boston / 2021-2022 Visiting Professor, Harvard University and French Harkness Fellow / 2014-... (on leave) Full Professor in Economics, ERUDITE, UPEC, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC)
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Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Managment, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University
