Ascendiun CEO Paul Markovich launches new lobbying in an effort to force the health industry to become more accessible and ...

Throughout 2025, the federal government and several state healthcare systems advanced new restrictions on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Health systems scaled back or closed equity offices. Federal ...

The Trump administration recently advanced a new phase of sweeping tariffs intended to address what it characterizes as unfair trade practices and persistent trade deficits. Since the spring, tariff ...

While utilization is undeniably part of the equation, prices—whether labeled explicitly or embedded in measures of intensity—remain central to understanding why US health spending levels are high and ...

The aging US population is increasing demand for healthcare, with those aged 65+ projected to rise by 47% by 2050. Workforce shortages and employee burnout are major challenges, with nearly half of ...

The US spends more per capita on health than any other country and health care is vastly more expensive for citizens than anywhere else. Can it learn anything from European systems?The steep cost of ...

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In a Thursday afternoon talk, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice Irene Papanicolas examined the difference between the United States’s health care spending — which eclipses that of any ...

The US health-care system is reaching its breaking point. Individuals, families, employees, employers, and public and private health insurance funders are all spending more for health care every year, ...

We have to get serious about fixing our health care system. The United States just spent 43 days in a government shutdown over health care but fixed nothing. The Republicans' Big Beautiful Bill will ...