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Hospitals need to comply with price transparency

The Chicago Tribune | Sally C. Pipes
August 16, 2021

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, long delays for treatment were a fact of life for Canadians. In 2019, the median wait time for specialist care following referral from a general practitioner was nearly 21 weeks, according to the Fraser Institute, a Vancouver think tank.
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Delay In Medicare Coverage Of Breakthrough Medical Devices Harms Seniors

Issues and Insights | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D. and Erik Paulsen
August 13, 2021

New medical technologies that receive breakthrough designation must still undergo the FDA’s rigorous review process, the global gold standard for medical-device safety and efficacy. The MCIT rule would make these technologies available sooner once they are approved by the FDA. The coverage would be temporary (four years), allowing time for CMS to collect real-world data to understand the impacts of the potentially critical technologies on patients.
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Gavin Newsom Is Bad For California’s Health

Forbes.com | Sally C. Pipes
August 16, 2021

The economic devastation caused in part by his lockdowns has scarred the state. Between 2019 and 2020, California saw a 6.8% increase in homelessness, according to a report released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. At the time of the study, more than half of the homeless population of the United States lived in California.
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The Real Vaccine Skeptics Work at the FDA

Newsmax | Sally C. Pipes
August 13, 2021

In recent weeks, they’ve proposed lowering Medicare’s eligibility age and adding dental, vision and hearing benefits to the entitlement. Democrats in Congress have also offered a plan to provide federally funded health coverage to low-income people in the 12 states that have yet to adopt Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion.
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