Breaking News in Healthcare Reform
“Then, the worst feature of all, hiding in the program details, jolted me: REACH is structured to make doctors complicit in the money game.”
Medicare REACH: Financial Incentives Will Undermine Doctor-Patient Trust
Health Justice Monitor | James Kahn, MD | July 16, 2022
“If a pharmacy refuses to fill the individual’s prescription — including medications needed to manage a miscarriage or complications from pregnancy loss … the pharmacy may be discriminating on the basis of sex.”
Federal Government Warns Rebel Pharmacists Who Refuse to Fill Abortion Pill Prescriptions
Salon | Nicole Karlis | July 16, 2022
“An executive order issued by President Joe Biden last summer sought to crack down on hospital and health insurance consolidations…. Hospital consolidation has left many areas, especially rural communities, without good options for convenient and affordable healthcare service….”
Megadeals Push Healthcare Merger Activity to $19.2 Billion in Q2
Healthcare Finance News | Jeff Lagasse | July 15, 2022
“…the office’s work won’t translate into instant savings for people…. [It] isn’t necessarily aiming to reduce costs, but rather to slow the rate of growth of those costs.”
Health Care Costs Keep Rising. A New California Agency Aims to Fix That
CalMatters | Kristen Hwang, Ana B. Ibarra | July 15, 2022
“The U.S. remains an outlier being the only industrialized nation without universal healthcare and has led to men avoiding getting the care they need because costs are too high….”
US Men Sicker Than Those Abroad, Study Says
ABC News | Teddy Grant | July 14, 2022
“…since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, activists fear some could be too scared to type in ‘abortion’.”
After Roe v. Wade, Healthcare Data Privacy Fears Grow Worldwide
Reuters | Rina Chandran, Diana Baptista | July 11, 2022
“…the high costs of modern-day care have left millions with a devastating financial burden. That’s forced patients and their families to make gut-wrenching sacrifices even as they confront a grave illness….”
In America, Cancer Patients Endure Debt on Top of Disease
Kaiser Health News | Noam N. Levey | July 9, 2022
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