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Health care is costing Americans $3.65 trillion a year yet access, rising costs continue to be a problem. How much is going towards waste, fraud and abuse?

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Florida Pharmacies Struggling to Serve Customers, Advocacy Group Says

Jesse Hathaway - October 19, 2020 1

Sixty-one percent of community drug stores polled in Florida said they would turn away Medicaid customers seeking prescription refills because of inadequate reimbursement.

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Rebreathing Your Own Air Could be Harmful, Even to Infected COVID Patients: Commentary

Heartland Author - October 19, 2020 0

The potential harm from universal mask mandates, versus hypothetical (and small) benefits, is apparently not considered by authorities imposing the mask edicts.

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All Workers Should Get the Same Tax Break on Health Care Costs – Interview

AnneMarie Schieber - October 17, 2020 0

An HFA makes the tax savings, on a comparable amount of earned income, available to all workers to apply toward their health care needs. Equality of opportunity.

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Deaths from Covid-19 and Obesity Rates

AnneMarie Schieber - October 16, 2020 0

More evidence is emerging that people who are medically obese are more susceptible to death from COVID-19. Above is how obesity rates in the...

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Google, Apple Move Full Speed Ahead on Tracing App

Heartland Author - October 16, 2020 0

“Even though the app is a private initiative, public officials and agencies can create public-private partnerships that turn a once voluntary app into a mandatory app

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Bills Liberate Health Savings Accounts

Kenneth Artz - October 14, 2020 0

“We need to divorce HSAs from high-deductible insurance plans, permanently and completely,”

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Pandemic is Pushing Doctors to Consider Independence

Bonner R Cohen - October 13, 2020 0

Despite increased interest in affiliating with a practice or health system in 2019, 26 percent of doctors who joined a health care system reported “buyers’ remorse.”

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Time to Ditch Stale Health Regulations: Report

Ashley Herzog - October 12, 2020 0

The authors call for a BRAC-style commission to reform rules and regulations.

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Fewer Britons Expected to Survive Cancer Due to Health Care Rationing

Kelsey Hackem - October 9, 2020 0

Britons missed more cancer screenings and face lower cancer survival rates due to the U.K. National Health Service’s handling of COVID-19, a new study reports.

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Colleges Send Students Home Despite No Hospitalizations

Heartland Author - October 8, 2020 0

Among 26,000 students on 29 campuses who have tested positive for the virus, none have been hospitalized.

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White House Appoints Reformer, Heartland Policy Advisor to Top FDA Post

Heartland Author - October 8, 2020 0

“David Gortler has established himself as a sharp, out-of-the-box thinker known for his communication and teaching skills and ability to address and solve complex problems.”

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$1.4 Billion Rural Hospital Billing Scheme Exposed in Federal Indictment

Joe Barnett - October 7, 2020 0

Using a practice known as “pass-through” billing, the defendants used these facilities to bill numerous insurers for expensive—and often medically unnecessary tests,

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MI Health Departments Find Way Around Unconstitutional Executive Orders

AnneMarie Schieber - October 6, 2020 0

The health departments’ actions have sent a chill throughout Michigan businesses and organizations.

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AnneMarie Schieber is a research fellow at The Heartland Institute and managing editor of Health Care News, Heartland's monthly newspaper for health care reform.

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