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Growth of private care in public hospitals raises equity questions
6 December 2017 - A new report showing that public patients wait twice as long for elective surgery as private ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Dec 2017
What the CVS-Aetna deal means for the future of health care
5 December 2017 - When drug company chief executive Heather Bresch was hauled in front of Congress last year to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Dec 2017
CVS and Aetna say merger will improve your health care. Can they deliver?
4 December 2017 - When CVS Health and Aetna announced their merger on Sunday, their executives painted an image of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Dec 2017
How giving private patients priority in public hospitals is pushing up health fund premiums
6 December 2017 - Privately insured patients are jumping the queues for surgery in public hospitals and getting treated twice ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Dec 2017
Elective surgery surge for private patients in public hospitals
6 December 2017 - The number of privately insured patients having elective surgery in public hospitals is rising faster than ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Dec 2017
CVS Health to acquire Aetna for $69 billion in year's largest acquisition
4 December 2017 - U.S. drugstore chain operator CVS Health said on Sunday it had agreed to acquire U.S. health insurer ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Dec 2017
Finding health care prices online—how difficult is it to be an informed health care consumer?
4 December 2017 - In the US health care system many patients face high out-of-pocket expenses because they either lack insurance ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Nov 2017
How exactly would single payer health care work?
30 November 2017 - Whether you call it single payer or Medicare for all, the idea of a government-sponsored universal ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Nov 2017
Reducing the waste in the massive health care system
30 November 2017 - Lorica Health's CEO Paul Nicolarakis says the health analytics company is helping the industry and government ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Nov 2017
Strengthening the ACA for the long term
30 November 2017 - Most complaints about the Affordable Care Act (e.g., high and rising insurance premiums, large deductibles, and insurer ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Nov 2017
Trump backs bipartisan fixes to ObamaCare markets
28 November 2017 - President Trump at a closed-door meeting with GOP senators on Tuesday said he would support two ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Nov 2017
Commonwealth to cut funding for botched operations
28 November 2017 - Public hospitals will no longer receive commonwealth funding for avoidable complications such as pressure injuries, infections ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Nov 2017
Is the public health system so good you don’t actually need private insurance?
26 November 2017 - Save your money and don’t bother with private health insurance. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Nov 2017
No 'free kicks' from government for health care industry, says Primary Health boss
23 November 2017 - The pathology industry has "reached the limit" when it comes to consolidation and after years of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Nov 2017
A check-up on Canada's health care system
25 November 2017 - In 2005, one of us (KMW) watched a close friend go in and out of hospital in ...