Patients are afraid to show up to medical appointments, while workers are being detained, deported or losing their visa statuses.
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Patients and Employers Support This GOP Budget Cut. Hospitals Say It’s Too Risky.
Medicare would save billions of dollars changing how it pays for routine medical care. Patients would save, too, but rural hospitals could see financial losses.
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This Budget Cut Would Save Medicare Patients Money. But Can Rural Hospitals Afford It?
Medicare often pays clinics owned by hospitals at least double the amount it pays independent clinics for the exact same medical care. Ending that practice would save money for taxpayers and patients, but critics say it could also push rural hospitals to cut services or close.
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Why Employers Are Turning to Primary Care as Health Care Costs Soar
Some companies are cutting out insurers and bringing clinics to the office to address rising health care costs.
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How One Company Gamified Health Insurance
One organization turns to a game to get employees to debate and decide together what health care they value.
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Ozempic Hype Forces Employer Calls on Obesity Coverage
Employers are facing a big dilemma: How do they pay for the new highly effective and popular obesity medications without breaking the bank?
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What Gas Stoves, Minimum Wage Laws and the Military Teach Us About Health Policy
We get a sneak peek at some of the most exciting papers coming out of a major health economics conference.
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How Vaccine Mandates Helped Protect Nursing Homes and Their Staff
Jasmine Travers share new research that explores the effect of state vaccine mandates on vaccination rates and staffing changes in nursing homes.
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Price Hikes Fuel Rising Employer Health Costs
Aditi Sen shares new data from the Health Care Cost Institute on health care spending, utilization and average price trends in the employer-sponsored insurance market.
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Inside Big Health Insurers’ Side Hustle
America’s largest health insurance companies moonlight as obscure middlemen, managing billions in health care spending for many of the country’s biggest employers.