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“The fact that the price for a knee replacement can vary from $23,000 to $100,000 at a single hospital in one area of the country just demonstrates the total insanity of American healthcare pricing.”
Hospitals Lift Curtain on Prices, Revealing Giant Swings in Pricing by Procedure
Healthcare Dive | Samantha Liss and Nami Sumida | March 11, 2021
“The U.S. death rate increased by 15 percent last year as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, making it the deadliest year in recorded U.S. history.”
Virus Drove Record U.S. Death Rate in 2020, CDC Finds
Politico | Erin Banco | March 10, 2021
“Despite experts’ warnings about the dangers that persist, a series of states last week unveiled plans to loosen Covid-19 restrictions.”
CNN | Christina Maxouris | March 9, 2021
“This SUNSET rule…creates this presumption that all regulations should disappear unless they’re subject to…periodic review.”
Lawsuit Argues ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ Could Invalidate Thousands of Health Rules
NPR | Selena Simmons-Duffin | March 9, 2021
“In the last quarter of 2020, the Trump administration…launched an experiment…that could fully turn Medicare over to private health insurers.”
The Ghost of the Trump Administration is Haunting Medicare
Common Dreams | Diane Archer | March 8, 2021
“…America’s system for long-term care is fundamentally broken in ways that will continue to harm vulnerable residents and workers….”
America Now Knows that Nursing Homes Are Broken. Does Anyone Care Enough to Fix Them?
NBC News | Suzy Khimm | March 7, 2021
“The U.S. in particular has a decentralized medical system that can make it difficult for people to easily access their health care records, especially if they lack digital literacy.”
The Barriers to Vaccine Passports
Axios | Bryan Walsh | March 6, 2021
“Insurers will likely be happy with a temporary boost to income-based subsidies for customers on the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges for 2021 and 2022.”
Senate Narrowly Passes COVID-19 Package that Includes ACA Subsidy Boost, Rural Hospital Money
Fierce Healthcare | Robert King | March 6, 2021
“…lawmakers may dramatically expand the state’s authority to buy, make and share lower-cost insulin and other generic drugs.”
Climbing Prescription Prices Have Washington State Looking to Get Into the Drug Business
Investigate West | Levi Pulkkinen | March 5, 2021
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