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2021 Federal Health Insurance Exchange open enrolment period starts on 1 November on HealthCare.gov
30 October 2020 - CMS is announcing that the open enrolment period for the Federal Health Insurance Exchange will officially ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Oct 2020
Price transparency press call remarks by Administrator Seema Verma
29 October 2020 - Today’s price transparency announcement marks the culmination of four years of groundbreaking reforms. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Oct 2020
A prescription for America’s drug pricing problem?
21 October 2020 - Sky-high prescription drug costs remains one of the most hotly contested issues in healthcare today. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Oct 2020
UCP approves policy to create private health care system in Alberta
18 October 2020 - Alberta’s United Conservative Party has voted to approve a policy that supports creating a “privately funded ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Oct 2020
Health insurance changes leave many surprised with lack of cover
15 October 2020 - Natalie Glaser was put onto a basic cover that excluded about 72% of procedures she was once ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Oct 2020
Ineffective treatments to be removed from basic health insurance package
5 October 2020 - Treatments that have not been proven effective will be removed from the Netherlands' basic health insurance package, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Oct 2020
De-adopting low value care: evidence, eminence and economics
2 October 2020 - An often cited shortcoming of the US health care system is the slow pace with which ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Oct 2020
Ideas about resourcing health care in the United States: can economic evaluation achieve meaningful use?
29 September 2020 - The United States is one of the few high income countries not to apply economic evaluation routinely ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Sep 2020
Election campaign 2020: Jacinda Ardern unveils $1 billion health policy
29 September 2020 - Labour is promising to invest millions more in drug-buying agency PHARMAC and emergency dental care if ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Sep 2020
Prescription drug and health care costs are rising
21 September 2020 - Over the last 100 years, the practice of medicine has come a long way. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Sep 2020
NICE joins global alliance to shine spotlight on evidence-based health care
15 September 2020 - Tuesday 20 October will be the inaugural world evidence-based health care day. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Sep 2020
Private health insurance hikes set to hit Australians soon
10 September 2020 - Thousands of Australians have ditched their private health insurance cover in recent months due to money worries. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Aug 2020
With Canada and Mexico borders closed, Americans are trapped in their own health care system
31 August 2020 - "Want to hear the joke about insulin?" goes the bleak gag about America's drug prices. "You ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Jul 2020
America’s backwards coronavirus strategy
22 July 2020 - The federal government’s approach is like a hospital that invests in palliative care while abolishing the oncology ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Jul 2020
COVID-19 - implications for the health care system
22 July 2020 - The novel coronavirus pandemic has spawned four intertwined health care crises that reveal and compound deep underlying ...