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The leading GOP candidates all claim one of their top priorities will be to repeal Obamacare. An architect of the original law outlines the thorny – but plausible – path to repeal.
Asking ‘Have you served in the military?’ may seem like a minor issue, but it’s actually much more important than you might think. And it’s a question that few doctors make a point of asking.
Price in health care is a squishy concept. Different words relating to cost – charge, price and out-of-pocket cost – all have different meanings.
An examination of orthopedic surgery and knee replacement showed that higher payments were associated with markets dominated by a few large physician groups.
Seven babies died unnecessarily at Bacchus Marsh hospital between 2013 and 2014. The My Hospitals website and other reporting mechanisms gave no sign of any problems.
A perverse funding incentive creates or maintains the dependency of older people livin
There are several benefits of nurses providing input in policymaking processes. In South Africa, though, there are several barriers that prevent this.
The Affordable Care Act was the most significant health care reform since Medicare. Have concerns that it would hurt businesses panned out?
Switching to a high-deductible plan leads people to reduce medical spending even when it doesn’t make any sense.
The South African government’s plan to provide universal access to health care seems to be slipping off its priority list.
Ban on affirmative action across eight states has led to a drop in minority students at medical schools.
The devolved health care in Scotland raises questions on the fairness of the funding for health in the UK.
The Green Party offers an ambitious health manifesto, wanting to allocate £20 billion more to health care by 2020.
Big organizations don’t always lead to lower costs or better care.
Though set “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away,” it isn’t hard to see in the Star Wars films a vision of our own not so distant future. But Anthony Jones, a physician with a long background in health…
Australia’s health care arrangements do not work well for those with complex and chronic conditions such as diabetes, cancer and mental illness, according to a federal government paper. These people need…
Diseases linked to smoking tobacco, a lack of exercise, drinking alcohol and eating unhealthily are on the rise, even though we have more information than ever before on the risks involved. All indications…
We’ve all heard the warnings against googling your symptoms in search of a diagnosis: you’ll uncover a range of daunting illnesses and launch into panic-mode over something like a measly cold. There is…
Should Australian health-care workers face criminal penalties if they wilfully or recklessly neglect or mistreat patients? The United Kingdom is currently grappling with this question after systemic failures…
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