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Legislative battle continues over how to address health care costs in North Carolina

NC Health News

The proposed reforms are part of a larger debate between the legislative chambers over how to make the health care system more affordable and accessible for consumers. NC Health News talked to seven health economists and one policy expert about what they think of the proposed reforms and the impact on consumer costs.

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Contemplating Health Data Rights as Civil Rights

The Health Care Blog

The commercial practice of aggregating health and consumer data crosses the borders of healthcare, retail, marketing, communications, transportation, and others. Dr. Rockeymore Cummings spoke about how she had shared parts of her health journey story online to provide support to others on similar journeys.

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Homeless sweeps thwarting health care in California as medicine, ID lost

HEALTHBEAT

Andrew Douglass shoved his clothes and belongings into plastic trash bags as five police officers surrounded his encampment — a drab gray tent overflowing along a bustling sidewalk in the gritty Tenderloin neighborhood, where homeless people lie sprawled on public sidewalks, sometimes in drug overdoses.