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The Impact of Tax Policy on Healthcare Cost and Access

Governments around the world use tax policies to fund the medical sectors, help in subsidizing health insurance and incentivize behaviors that can help in improving public health outcomes.

In this blog post we will explore the various ways in which tax policy has impacted the healthcare cost and access.

Read: nextdigitalhealth.com/healthca

Next Digital Health by Wi4 Corporation · The Impact of Tax Policy on Healthcare Cost and AccessBy Swastik Saraf

The Impact of Consolidation on Healthcare Quality and Cost

In recent years the medical industry has witnessed the significant trend towards consolidation with the hospital’s, clinics and other health sectors merging to form the larger entities.

In this blog, we will explore in detail about health consolidation and its effects on quality and cost.

Visit: nextdigitalhealth.com/healthca

Follow the Money!

“The small-town drugstore closed for the last time on a clear and chilly afternoon in February. Jon Jacobs, who owned Yough Valley Pharmacy, hugged his employees goodbye.

Mr. Jacobs, a 70-year-old pharmacist, had spent more than half his life building his drugstore into a bedrock of Confluence, Pa., a rural community of roughly 1,000 people. Now the town was losing its only health care provider.

Obscure but powerful health care middlemen — companies known as #PharmacyBenefitManagers, or P.B.M.s — had destroyed his business.”

#pbm #pharmacy #pharmaceuticals #healthcare #healthcarecosts
nytimes.com/2024/10/19/busines

The New York Times · The Powerful Companies Driving Local Drugstores Out of BusinessBy Reed Abelson

This is ridiculous! The US has the worst healthcare system of all developed countries - more expensive and worse outcomes!

Why California Health Care Costs More in Monterey Than LA

Prices for the same hospital services vary wildly, with no relation to quality, researchers have found.

From hospital to hospital, prices for the same service vary wildly, with no relation to quality, researchers have found. In Monterey County, California, local employers and unions have long decried the prices charged by the local hospitals.

#healthcare #healthcarecosts #hospitalcosts #singlepayernow
bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Bloomberg · Hospital Price Discrepancies Drive Health-Care Premiums HigherBy John Tozzi

That didn’t take long. Let the fireworks begin.

The silver lining of a trial will be the interesting tidbits we may get to see with discovery!

#ChristianaCare has filed a lawsuit to stop the creation of a board that would oversee #Hospital budgets, saying it violates the system’s state and federal constitutional rights and corporate laws, and threatens its mission to care for the community.”

"The suit, filed in #Delaware’s Court of Chancery, which deals with business issues, says House Bill 350 illegally gives the state control over private and nonprofit businesses

#hb350 #healthcare #healthcarecosts
delawarelive.com/christianacar

Delaware LIVE News · ChristianaCare sues to halt hospital board creationChristianaCare has filed a lawsuit to stop the creation of a board that would oversee hospital budgets, saying it violates the system's state and federal

Governor #JohnCarney issued the following statement today on the passage of House Substitute 2 for House Bill 350.

“Rising #HealthCareCosts are having a significant impact on 3Delaware families and state taxpayers”

#HB350 will help lower the growth of health care costs in our state, while making sure we’re protecting health care quality and access. I want to thank the hospital systems, members of the General Assembly – particularly Speaker #Longhurst and Senator #Townsend – and DHSS for collaborating on this important piece of legislation. I look forward to signing it into law.”

news.delaware.gov/2024/05/21/g

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