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Preparing Hospitals for the Next Financial Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a huge financial toll on America’s hospitals. According to a report from Strata Decision Technology, they will have lost an average $2,800 per COVID case, with many losing $8,000 to $10,000. Because of this, even a hospital that may...
Fixing the Affordable Care Act: Part 5 — The Safety Net
America’s system of health care safety nets is an inadequate, balkanized, inefficient, unfair, unsustainable monstrosity. And that’s on a good day. Its two main components—Medicaid/CHIP for the poor and Medicare for the elderly and disabled—spend nearly a trillion...
Fixing the Affordable Care Act: Part 4 — Expand the disease prevention incentives
Is there anybody who still doesn’t know that cigarettes are bad for them? You’d have to have lived under a rock—or received a public school education—to think otherwise. How about obesity, alcohol abuse, high cholesterol, elevated blood sugar, and hypertension? All...