The Health Care Blog
JANUARY 30, 2025
By LEONARD D AVOLIO The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has drawn attention to Americans frustration with the for profit healthcare insurance industry. It was to keep sick people from going bankrupt while helping keep the lights on at not-for-profit hospitals. The number of Americans with health insurance skyrockets.
The Health Care Blog
JUNE 21, 2022
I’ll briefly summarize each and then try to apply them to healthcare. Kelly suggests trying to picture the “history” of an imagined future, the steps required to get to X in year YYYY, so that we can understand “What kinds of technology and laws and social expectations needed to be in place year by year in order to arrive at that state.”
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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. These systems demonstrated that they are capable of producing, rapidly and on demand, demonstrable social benefit.
Association of Health Care Journalists
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Patients give worse reviews to private equity hospitals Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston compared scores for the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems , a standardized survey of patient experience, for 73 private equity-acquired hospitals to 293 matched control hospitals.
KFF Health News
APRIL 9, 2025
Leroy Walker arrived at the county hospital short of breath. The Greene County Health System, with only three doctors, has no intensive care unit or surgical services. The 20-bed hospital averages a few patients each night, many of them, like Walker, with chronic illnesses. EUTAW, Ala. Then: Beep.
KFF Health News
JANUARY 28, 2025
an environmental lawyer with no formal medical or public health expertise, as secretary of Health and Human Sciences. trillion, 80,000-employee federal health system. For decades , Kennedy has advocated for health-related ideas that are scientifically disproven or controversial. Kennedy Jr.,
NC Health News
DECEMBER 31, 2024
As we look back on the year that was, some of the most-read NC Health News stories included articles about Helenes effects, from its upheaval of municipal water systems to the use of cadaver dogs and other issues that arose during the aftermath of the havoc generated by the storm. Now their board will be reconfigured.
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