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New fee website shows NSW pays up to 40 times more in out-of-pocket costs
20 January 2020 - Private health patients in NSW are paying up to 40 times more in out-of-pocket costs than ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Jan 2020
Sharing health care data with digital giants
16 January 2020 - Overcoming obstacles and reaping benefits while protecting patients. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jan 2020
Airing frustrations with pharma, a Republican FTC commissioner just endorsed Medicare negotiation
16 January 2020 - A Republican member of the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday expressed support for allowing Medicare to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jan 2020
Pricing of pharmaceuticals is becoming a major challenge for health systems
13 January 2020 - Manufacturers using their market power to maximise profits results in prices that are unjustifiable and unaffordable. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jan 2020
Health insurance industry pooling mechanism makes high cost drugs accessible for record number of Canadians
14 January 2020 - The catastrophic expense of high cost drugs have been made affordable for a record number of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Jan 2020
In home care plan to cut hospital costs
13 January 2020 - Patients with mental health problems, chronic disease and undergoing rehabilitation will be increasingly diverted out of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jan 2020
Can we please stop fighting about ‘Medicare for all’?
8 January 2020 - One policy proposal has defined this Democratic race. It’s time to move on. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jan 2020
Failing mental and dental health resources driving hospital congestion
10 January 2020 - A critical shortage of mental health beds and unaffordable dental services are prompting increasing numbers of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jan 2020
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 ...