Association of Health Care Journalists

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Veterans Affairs estimated that as many as 44 veterans took their own lives each day in 2021, marking an 11.6% Many veterans health advocates say the updated number may still be underestimating the crisis. Mental health conditions like depression, PTSD, and substance use disorders are also prevalent among those who serve.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Evidence abounds that access to primary care improves health and lowers costs. And yet, only 5% of health care spending in this country goes to primary care, less than in any other Western democracy. Freyer is a health care journalist based in Rhode Island. Prior to that, he was CEO of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

Hospital consolidation has risen to the top of the health policy stack. As a consequence, the Biden administration has targeted the health care industry for enhanced and more vigilant anti-trust enforcement. By JEFF GOLDSMITH and IAN MORRISON. Forty years later, there were 700 fewer facilities generating about $1.2

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