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Can We Reduce Health Care Costs with Better Primary Care

WebPrimary care is the only health care component where an increased supply is associated with better population health and more equitable outcomes.

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Your Money or Your Life: Tackling Rising Costs of Health Care

WebAmericans spend more than 10 percent of the yearly gross national product on health care--nearly $1,500 for every U.S. resident. Since 1975, total health care spending has more …

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Finally, the Truth about Health Care: The Independent Institute

WebNothing starts a fistfight like the health-care debate. The market for what is just a basic service has been contorted and mangled by government intervention for more than a …

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Did Healthcare Spending Really Return to Pre-Pandemic Levels

WebRaymond J. March • Wednesday, January 24, 2024. 2022 was hardly a year of fiscal austerity. Monetary expansion from years before resulted in 8 percent inflation. …

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What the FDA and NIH Have to Say About the Vaccine

WebFact-checkers screening for “misinformation,” please note: everything that follows are direct quotes from the FDA Authorization Letter for COMIRNATY, the FDA …

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Healthcare as a Complex System John C. Goodman

WebIn general, we have no reliable model to tell us who gets care and who doesn’t when the time price of care rises for everyone, as we expect to happen once the …

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Telemedicine Shows the Free Market’s Innovative Capacity

WebFrom mid-March to mid-April or 2020, however, Mayo Clinic providers saw a 10,880% increase in video appointments with patients. Likewise, the number of providers …

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The Economics of Health Care and Health Insurance

WebEconomic theory suggests several factors that might prevent a free market in health services from performing like the competitive-market ideal, but concerns about them are …

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Health Insurance Without Health Care: News: The Independent …

WebNo Overall Increase in Health Care Utilization. Under Obamacare, the number of people without health insurance fell from 15.5 percent of the population in …

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Medical Apps: Improving Healthcare on a Global Scale

WebDocsApp links patients with a variety of medical specialists and to provide medical consultations within 30 minutes. “Around 70% of all health problems can be …

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Can the Left and Right Agree on Health Reform

WebA new book calls for universal health insurance coverage, but with no increase in government spending. It’s getting a lot of attention in progressive circles. Yet …

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Healthcare and the Cost of Non-Price Rationing

WebThe orthodox approach to health policy is obsessively focused on the burdens of price barriers to care, and at the same time inordinately oblivious to the …

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Don’t Make California Health Care Worse Than It Already Is

WebCalifornia legislators want the state to provide free health care to every resident, including undocumented immigrants. Assembly Bill 2200 would make CalCare …

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Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How …

WebReviewed by Robert L. Ohsfeldt | There certainly is no shortage of critics of the health-care system in the United States. Indeed, health-policy experts have reached something …

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Book Review The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of

WebReviewed by William R. Keech | Angus Deaton's The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality is a positive and optimistic assessment of worldwide well-being. …

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Is There A Trump Health Care Plan

WebAlthough he rarely talks about it, the most significant gift Donald Trump bequeathed to economic prosperity was deregulation.And the one sector that was …

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War’s Other Casualty: News: The Independent Institute

Web'War is the health of the State.' Those famous words are contained in Randolph Bourne's essay 'The State,' written in response to America's participation in …

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Covid Lessons Learned, Four Years Later: News: The Independent …

WebFour years later, we know what many of us suspected then: None of those policies were successful, and many were gravely damaging. The Covid health benefits …

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Why Are Some People Healthier than Others

WebThere are vast differences in the health of population groups in the United States. For example at the county level life expectancy for men ranges from a low of 65.9 …

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