Jane Sarashon

JULY 18, 2024

growth for group health insurance plans is the highest rate of medical cost trend growth since 2012. Following the BLS report on the CPI for June 2024, PwC published their new annual report from PwC titled Behind the Numbers 2025 tells us that commercial health care spending is expected to grow some 8.0% for Group plans and 7.5%

Doctors 59

Doctors Prescription Drug Pricing Hospitals Health Insurance 59

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The study reviewed reports and articles published between January 1, 2012 and May 15, 2019, dressing the topic of waste across six domains previously identified by the Institute of Medicine: Failure of care delivery, with waste ranging between $102 bn and $166 bn. Political debates in this 2020 U.S. Political debates in this 2020 U.S.

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Kaiser Health News

AUGUST 12, 2022

Never before have we been able to negotiate prescription drug prices. Under the bill, all vaccines recommended by the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will be fully covered by Medicare, as well as by Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. “It’s historic.

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Medicare Medicare Prescription Drug Pricing Governance 95

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

[As a sidebar, if you’re concerned about the state of civil verbal discourse in America, you may be comforted to know that an Arizona State Legislator Lori Klein (R-Anthem) introduced a law into the State House to prevent teachers from cussing in Arizona classrooms, as this article from back in 2012 discusses.

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