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- Is Obamacare’s free preventive medicine mandate unconstitutional? (WSJ)
- 94% of US residents have gotten Covid.
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Pharmacist: That Prescription Will Cost You $3.5 Million!
A new record has been set for the highest price medication. The newly approved hemophilia drug Hemgenix.
A Hospital Stay (but in Your Own Home)
Years ago, I worked in a long-term acute care hospital. We employed social workers whose job was discharge planning. They charted out where to move patients once they had been treated by our hospital. This process was started before patients were admitted. Patients with no clear path to move elsewhere were not admitted. Our average length of stay was in excess of 30 days. At that time our type of facility was PPS exempt and cost reimbursed based on a TEFRA limit (see p. 71 for more information).
Struggling NHS Considers More Rationing, Cutting Services and Charging Wealthy
The Scottish National Health Service has some of the worst treatment times in the United Kingdom. Thirty-seven percent of people entering the emergency department in late October had to wait more than four hours to be admitted, transferred or treated. The NHS struggles to hire workers and struggles to treat all those who need care. Supposedly the founding principles of the NHS is that care is free and paid for by tax dollars rather than charging patients for care.