The government has announced three major reform priorities for the NHS. If successfully implemented, they could start to transform the health service.
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When dementia patients on Medicare enroll in hospice, they lose other crucial supports and services.
Proposed reforms aim to increase public information about previously sanctioned health professionals and to better protect people who complain.
The health care world has changed a lot in 40 years, but Medicare hasn’t. Here are three areas for radical forms to the system that will achieve its aims of universal health care for all Australians.
The US has been trying to reform its complicated health care system since 1993. In 2020, it continues to be one of the biggest and most complicated issues of the presidential campaign.
As drug prices soar, consumers look for cheaper generics. A recent study showed safety issues in some generics made abroad, however, suggesting that the FDA’s honor system may not be enough to ensure safety.
A project involving tens of millions of patient records poses ethical issues, even though patients could ultimately gain. Here’s why privacy concerns are a hurdle.
Health care, immigration and trade have been hot topics during the campaign and are likely to come up during the fifth Democratic debate.
Nearly 160 million Americans get insurance through employers, but that does not mean it’s good social policy. An economist explains some aspects of employer-sponsored insurance that don’t work well.
Presidential candidates have been proposing plans to expand health coverage, lower prescription drug costs and make hospital bills more transparent. But few get to the real problem. Here’s why.
The president should use his penchant for shaking up the status quo to tackle the genuine crisis in health care.
GOP lawmakers say their bills to replace the Affordable Care Act would do a better job than the ACA of controlling rising health care costs, but 40 years of deregulation show it just won’t work.
House Speaker Paul Ryan called the new health care proposal an ‘act of mercy.’ The bill could help the healthy and wealthy, but it is unlikely to be merciful to the poor.
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