Tag: health care costs
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South Korea takes steps to suspend licenses of striking doctors after they refuse to end walkouts
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South Korea’s government has begun steps to suspend the medical licenses of thousands of striking junior doctors, days after they missed a government-set deadline to end their joint walkouts, which have disrupted hospital operations
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South Korean doctors hold massive anti-government rally over medical school recruitment plan
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Thousands of senior doctors have rallied in the South Korean capital to express their support for junior doctors who have been on strike for nearly two weeks over a government plan to sharply increase the number of medical school admissions
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Chicago ‘mansion’ tax to fund homeless services stuck in legal limbo while on the ballot
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An unusual legal challenge may upend the future of a Chicago ballot measure that would hike a real estate tax on high-end properties sales to pay for services for homeless people
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The Missouri governor shortens the DWI prison sentence of former Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid
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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has shortened the prison sentence of former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid for a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a girl
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Governments can erase your medical debt for pennies on the dollar — and some are
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Medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcies in the United States, and more than 2 in 5 American adults have some. In many cases, the money people owe to health care providers forces them to cut spending on food or utilities, forgo other medical care or take on even more debt. Medical debt can…
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Foreign aid drops sharply as Taliban abuses jeopardize the Afghan health system, group says
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Human Rights Watch says Afghanistan’s public health system has been hit hard following a sharp reduction in foreign assistance, coupled with serious Taliban abuses against women and girls, It says this is jeopardizing the right to healthcare of millions of Afghans
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New Mexico budget bill would found literacy institute, propel housing construction and conservation
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New Mexico’s strategy for spending and investing a multibillion-dollar annual surplus linked closely to oil production has come into sharper focus
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Minnesota and Eli Lilly settle insulin price-gouging lawsuit. Deal will hold costs to $35 a month
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Minnesota has reached a settlement with Eli Lilly in a price gouging lawsuit filed against the country’s three biggest insulin manufacturers
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Paxlovid can lessen the chance of a severe COVID-19 illness. Why is it underused?
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Paxlovid can prevent hospitalization and death from COVID-19, but experts say it’s being underused