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Hospital Systems: A Framework for Maximizing Social Benefit

The Health Care Blog

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. Health Systems Didn’t Just “Happen”; Federal Health Policy Actively Catalyzed their Formation.

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Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress

KFF Health News

“So much of what we see is the long tail of slavery and Jim Crow,” said Andrea Ducas , vice president of health policy at the Center for American Progress, a nonprofit think tank. All signs point to systems rooted in the nation’s painful racist history, which even today affects all facets of American life.