Masters degree health care administration

Instead, we need to embrace what works in every other market to lower prices, increase quality  and expand options: individual customers (in this case, patients) making informed choices between providers that are given the freedom to innovate. Research shows that 70 percent of inpatient services and 90 percent of outpatient services are shoppable. Reforms that give patients more visibility of price and quality, along with real incentives to act on that information and the elimination of barriers that make it harder for doctors to practice medicine, are the only way to bring real choice and competition to health care to lower prices. President TrumpDonald TrumpSchumer: Impeachment trial will be quick, doesn't need a lot of witnesses Nurse to be tapped by Biden as acting surgeon general: report Schumer calls for Biden to declare climate emergency MORE’s price transparency rules for hospitals and providers were a strong first step. Democrats and Republicans should be able … [Read more...] about To make health care affordable, stop focusing on insurance

With Democrats in control of the House and nominally in the Senate, that provides an opening for the party to push for some of the more aggressive changes to competition law contemplated in the House antitrust report. While Republicans had expressed support for some proposals, such as giving the Federal Trade Commission more resources, they had balked at others, such as a bill that might prevent tech companies from both owning a digital platform and competing on it, as Amazon does with its e-commerce site. … [Read more...] about What the Biden administration means for the future of Silicon Valley

Harris declined comment on reports that the European Union has seen major hurdles in its plan to distribute vaccines. She told reporters the organization aimed for all countries’ health workers to receive the vaccine in the first 100 days of 2021, but said she had no specific vaccination data, according to the news service. … [Read more...] about WHO revises guidance for COVID-19 patients’ treatment, recommending follow-up care, low-dose anticoagulants

In the last 24 hours, 282 new cases were reported to the Health Department. Of these, 219 are confirmed cases from 1,103 new PCR tests. There are 63 probable cases. pic.twitter.com/h1KZBRJ7WV … [Read more...] about COVID-19 In Pittsburgh: Allegheny Co. Health Dept. Reports 282 New Coronavirus Cases, 1 Additional Death

On Biden’s inauguration day, Lawder tweeted he had “joined the Biden Administration” and was “honored to be taking on this new challenge, and ready to roll up my sleeves and get to work supporting the President and workers across this great country.” … [Read more...] about Joe Biden Names LGBTQ Legal Advocate, Planned Parenthood Exec to Administration