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Month: December 2019

The Public Speaks: Healthcare a Key Issue for 2020

The Public Speaks: Healthcare a Key Issue for 2020

December 18, 2019 From a socio-historical standpoint, when humans gathered in large groups, individuals within those groups tended to remain quiet so as not to unduly draw negative attention.   Given that natural tendency toward timidity, we enjoyed all the more those characters invented by storytellers over the centuries who were actually unafraid to speak their minds—like the orphan Oliver Twist who bravely requested more gruel in the midst of his peers or the plucky Clara Peller who defiantly asked, “where’s…

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AHA v. HHS: Taking the Government to Court

AHA v. HHS: Taking the Government to Court

December 11, 2019 The New York Times is reporting that several of the nation’s leading hospital organizations, as well as three individual hospitals, have filed suit against Alex M. Azar II, in his official capacity as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).  The legal action is in response to an HHS regulation requiring added levels of transparency relative to certain hospital charges.  The plaintiffs include the American Hospital Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Federation of…

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