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06/22/2022

https://sacobserver.com/2022/03/single-payer-gets-a-price-tag/

06/01/2022

Like him or hate him, President Trump's No Surprises Act seems to be working as intended

The analysis also found that should this trend hold, more than 12 million surprise bills will be avoided in 2022.

04/13/2022

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/10/your-next-covid-19-vaccine-will-be-different/?_hsmi=209633624&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9U95FDkqEpiSCHXFOUNlLqgHBwX3fyUTT9qfI5Z0rLKFh_P7-k2uGB8vGFVT5iDHmVpdbaVxtegP84nhafyfw2T2Oy9Q

Despite waning immunity, “we simply can’t be boosting people as frequently as we are,” said FDA’s Dr. Peter Marks

03/09/2022

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Covered California leader: ‘Many of those who would see their premiums double will be priced out of the coverage they want and need.’

01/20/2022

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/health-care-costs-americans-obamacare-134431939.html

A new report from the Commonwealth Fund found that health insurance premiums and deductibles for Americans with employer-sponsored coverage accounted for 11.6% of median income in 2020, a whopping 9.1% increase from 2020.

01/20/2022

https://news.yahoo.com/mom-got-covid-went-searching-200420726.html

Just after 1 p.m. Tuesday last week, my phone buzzed with a text message from my mother: “Well, came down with cold, aches, cough etc over wknd.” She had taken an at-home coronavirus test. It was positive. Having spent the past year writing about COVID-19 vaccines and treatments for The New York...

11/18/2021

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CMS attributes the increases in part to rising prices and utilization, as well as the Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm.

11/03/2021

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Across California, public health departments are losing experienced staffers to exhaustion, partisan politics and jobs that pay more for less work. The public health nurses, epidemiologists and mic…

10/06/2021

https://apnews.com/article/business-health-5d91f6349753e1e8f21633ad55d12c61

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday put final touches on consumer protections against so-called “surprise” medical bills. The ban on charges that hit insured patients at some of life's most vulnerable moments is on track to take effect Jan.

10/06/2021

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/30/democrats-moderates-drug-pricing-514747

It’s a sign the drug industry is bending a potential compromise in manufacturers’ favor after spending more than $171 million lobbying in the first half of this year.

09/07/2021

https://news.yahoo.com/women-said-covid-vaccine-affected-173059072.html

Shana Clauson was in line to get her first dose of the Moderna shot in March when she saw menstruators on social media discussing how their periods had been altered - earlier, heavier and more painful than usual - after they got their coronavirus vaccinations. Clauson, a 45-year-old who lives in Hud...