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U.S. health care system costs four times more to run than Canada’s single payer system
7 January 2020 - In the United States, a legion of administrative health care workers and health insurance employees who ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Jan 2020
Focus needed not just on drugs but hospital expenses to impact health care costs
8 January 2020 - Much is made of the cost of drugs in the U. S., a topic that is ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Jan 2020
Hospital overload ‘fuelled by GP rebate’
9 January 2020 - The Medicare rebate for GP consultations is too low, prompting tens of thousands of people each ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Jan 2020
ObamaCare market stable and profitable despite loss of individual mandate
6 January 2020 - The ObamaCare market is “stable” and profitable for insurers despite the repeal of the law’s mandate ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Jan 2020
Public hospital system being stretched to the limit
7 January 2020 - The nation’s public hospitals are “stretched to the max” and are beginning to buckle under the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Jan 2020
As Brexit nears, fears of an NHS sell-out resurface
6 January 2020 - In the lead up to December’s general election in Britain one of the main campaign issues ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Jan 2020
Democratic states appeal Obamacare ruling to Supreme Court
4 January 2020 - In a move that could put the Obama-era health law squarely in the middle of the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Jan 2020
Is Obamacare really unconstitutional?
1 January 2020 - A U.S. appeals court has declared that the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate is unconstitutional and that ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Jan 2020
It looks like health insurance, but it’s not. ‘Just trust God,’ buyers are told.
2 January 2020 - Some state regulators are scrutinising nonprofit Christian cost-sharing ministries that enrol Americans struggling to pay for medical ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Dec 2019
Court rules Affordable Care Act’s individual insurance mandate is unconstitutional
18 December 2019 - The decision doesn’t decide the fate of the health law. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2019
Weighing costs and benefits in the economics of cancer care
10 December 2019 - Oncology is a profession and a calling to serve patients with cancer, but it is also an ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2019
Trudeau vague on scope of national pharmacare plan
9 December 2019 - New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh says he can’t support the Liberal government’s Speech from the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2019
Innovative Medicines Canada bans members from paying doctors fees for IV infusions
11 December 2019 - Pharmaceutical companies will no longer be allowed to pay fees to Canadian doctors for overseeing intravenous ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2019
Public hospitals 'going backwards'
11 December 2019 - Australia's top doctors say the country's hospitals are "going backwards" as more patients wait longer for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2019
Health insurers call for federal crackdown on public hospital 'fraud'
11 December 2019 - Health funds are calling on federal health minister Greg Hunt to use the government's new data-matching ...