Health care prices are the problem - Vox
Opaque and sky high bills are breaking Americans — and our health care system.
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Rising Healthcare Costs in the USA
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Corporate concentration. Really big health
Who profits most from America’s baffling health-care system? Hint: it isn’t big pharma | Business
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America’s plan to cut drug prices comes with unpleasant side-effects
American medicine. A bitter pricing pill. A lot to cut drug prices is changing how pharma firms make medicines. It is already changing how pharm...
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Why Is U.S. Health Care So Expensive? Some Reasons Turn Out to Be Myths - The New York Times
In a new, detailed international comparison, the United States looks a lot more like its peers than researchers expected.
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The Opportunity for Healthcare x Fintech | Andreessen Horowitz
The healthcare system is broken—fintech offers solutions. How technology will make healthcare more intuitive, efficient, and cost-effective. Tho...
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Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries?
Why do Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries, despite paying so much more for health care?
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Health care's widespread overbilling problem
Doctors and hospitals routinely have to pay settlements to clear "upcoding" allegations. The health care system's complex payment system gives d...
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A surgeon wants to offer cheap MRIs. A state law is getting in his way
Dr. Gajendra Singh is suing to overturn North Carolina’s "certificate of need" law.
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Patients face expensive ER bills even when they don’t receive treatment
Vox’s emergency room database shows that patients can face steep bills even when they decline treatment.
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Why American doctors keep doing expensive procedures that don’t work
The proportion of medical procedures unsupported by evidence may be nearly half. The evidence-based medicine problem: US doctors cling to procedur...
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Unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically and financially | The New Yorker
America’s Epidemic of Unnecessary Care. Overkill: An avalanche of unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically and financially. What c...
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The problem of doctors’ salaries
"Why doctors get paid too much and what we should do about it. "The United States pays more than twice as much per person for health care as oth...
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Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84,000 alternative | Science | The Guardian
Exclusive: 71 million people stand to benefit from reduced price treatment for virus which can lead to liver cirrhosis, cancer and death
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When Hospitals Merge to Save Money, Patients Often Pay More - The New York Times
Rapid consolidation has created powerful groups of hospitals, with organizations dictating prices and fueling health spending in some areas of the ...
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Why is insulin so expensive? The absurd cost of a diabetes drug, explained. - Vox
Cigna, a major insurer, is capping monthly insulin costs at $25. It’s a Band-Aid on a much bigger problem.
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When a hospital sling costs 900% more than at Amazon, something is very wrong (latimes.com)
Medical equipment pricing is completely broken when a sling costs this much - Los Angeles Times. Cathy Birker-Hake tripped over a hose in her Va...
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Bio Eats World: May I Have Your Insurance Card Again, Please? - Andreessen Horowitz
There's been a lot of talk (including on this show!) about the many kinds of innovations and technologies changing healthcare delivery for clinicia...
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Is employer-sponsored insurance really a good deal for workers? - Vox
Medicare-for-all explained: insurance deductibles for work plans rising. Company insurance is deeply entrenched and poses a big challenge to Medic...
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Solving Baumol's Cost Disease, in Healthcare - a16z
Why does the cost of education and healthcare services continue to rise rapidly, while the cost of goods rise much more slowly? According to econom...
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