Healthcare Triage News: More Money, More Life: Studies Indicate Wealthy People Live Longer Healthcare Triage

Healthcare Triage News: More Money, More Life: Studies Indicate Wealthy People Live Longer Healthcare Triage

life-expectancy

Healthcare Triage News: Unnecessary Supplement Use is Rising, Even Among the Elderly

Healthcare Triage News: Unnecessary Supplement Use is Rising, Even Among the Elderly

Dietary Supplements

Will Covered California Sell Health Coverage To The Undocumented?

Will Covered California Sell Health Coverage To The Undocumented?

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A state-by-state breakdown of 71 rural hospital closures

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/a-state-by-state-breakdown-of-71-rural-hospital-closures.html

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Opioid Epidemic Spurs Rethink On Medication And Addiction

http://khn.org/news/opioid-epidemic-spurs-rethink-on-medication-and-addiction/

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Why an obscure Supreme Court case is a big deal for prescription drugs

Why an obscure Supreme Court case is a big deal for prescription drugs

“Consumers and the health system as a whole benefit from a more competitive prescription drug market,” Marilyn Tavenner, president and CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans, said in a statement. “Protecting monopoly-like pricing schemes threaten[s] consumers’ access to more affordable prescription medications.”

New Health Policy Brief: Medicare’s New Physician Payment System

http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2016/04/22/new-health-policy-brief-medicares-new-physician-payment-system/

Health Policy Brief

http://www.healthaffairs.org/healthpolicybriefs/brief.php?brief_id=156

Six ways Trump’s healthcare plan differs from Obamacare

http://managedhealthcareexecutive.modernmedicine.com/managed-healthcare-executive/news/nine-ways-trump-s-healthcare-plan-differs-obamacare?page=0,0

Competition suffers most if UnitedHealth exits Obamacare in 2017, analysis shows

http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/competition-suffers-most-if-unitedhealth-exits-obamacare-2017-analysis-shows?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTjJZMU5UQXhNVFJsWWpSaSIsInQiOiJidFZ1RUN4NjdcLzdLK3VFQTVIeGdxSnNWZHZxdThQemM5a2RScVoxTGRtVmFYUjZkeTl0Rms1U1J0SFlDeW52WmUrWjcyODFvaFFXZkl6aUZZSFB2TGZcL3Y4a3ZrUVpwaFNOOUdjanhlNWZZPSJ9

More than 1 million consumers would be left with a single health plan option, analysis shows.

Healthcare is a major issue to voters in U.S. presidential election

http://www.revenuecycleinsights.com/news/healthcare-major-issue-voters-us-presidential-election?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWldFNU1tWTBaR1JqTXpnNSIsInQiOiJLaDg2S09aMU56ektiYytVNFZKTWduSzlvXC8rSjRreTZzS1h0RWpINzJ6XC8zYjdKbFVOMXIwRXFCQ1RuTVNldVwvaks4YnNNTE9UeVwvMGVKenczVm9WZGRkVlVvWXBWT1BHT08yR0NvVGVqaVE9In0%3D

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