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Increasing Number of Parents Waive Vaccines for Children
An increasing number of parents are foregoing vaccinations for their children, citing distrust of drug producers, distributors, and health care providers, while health care organizations point the finger at misinformation. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show a decline in vaccination rates in more than 30 states in the 2023-2024 school…
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Is Vaccine Hesitancy Causing a Surge in Infectious Diseases?
An uptick in mentions of measles in 2024 online discussions and forums shows many people are wondering whether vaccine hesitancy contributes to recent increases in the incidence of the disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 284 cases of measles were reported in 32 states and the District of Columbia in…
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Congress Failed to Fix Price Transparency in Lame Duck Session
The Lower Cost, More Transparency Act (LCMTA) and the Health Care PRICE Transparency Act 2.0 (HCPTA 2.0) will have to be reintroduced in 2025 in the wake of the GOP winning control of the White House and Senate and keeping its slim majority in the House. Two bipartisan health care bills failed to gain traction…
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Feds Demand Personal Information from Medical Practices, Others
New financial disclosure requirements that would sweep in many medical professionals were temporarily put on hold under an order from a panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Biden administration rule required an estimated 33 million small businesses, including some nonprofit entities, to report personally identifying information about their “beneficial ownership or interest” by…
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Bureaucracy and Band-Aids: How Government Red Tape is Holding Back Health Care Innovation – Commentary
By Steve Cohen RN MSN CHt Visualize for a moment: you walk into a hospital with a minor scrape, and instead of the doctor reaching for a Band-Aid, he hands you a clipboard. You are confused until he says, ‘You will need to fill out these 17 forms before we can administer any adhesive medical…
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Washington State Voters Keep Long-Term Care Tax
Voters in the state of Washington rejected a proposal that would have made a payroll tax to fund long-term care optional. The proposal, known as Initiative 2124, failed by an 11-point margin in November. Each Washington worker will continue to have 0.58 percent of his or her wages taken from every paycheck to fund WA…
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Trump Promises to Mandate IVF Coverage
During his campaign, President-elect Trump promised to require coverage of in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments. Trump’s base voters raised concerns about the ethical concerns raised by IVF and reformers have questioned the cost. In response to his opponents asserting Trump would ban IVF, Trump told NBC News in August 2024 he would not only defend…
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Health Policy Under President-elect Trump Can Build on First Term
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) nominee Robert Kennedy, Jr. will have an opportunity to build on health policy reforms from President-elect Donald Trump’s first administration, many of which the Biden administration reversed or stalled. Used Traditional Reform Approach First-term Trump HHS Secretary Alex Azar was an establishment and big pharma pick who led…
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Seniors Love Going to the Doctor – Commentary
Visiting the doctor is often an exercise in inconvenience. I once read that when you include travel time, waiting time, filling out paperwork, waiting in the exam room, and talking with the office nurse, that 15 minutes of face time with your doctor takes up about three hours out of your day. That sounds a…
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Texas Supreme Court OKs Future Execution in ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’ Case
A medical expert’s testimony on Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) in a 2003 capital murder trial in Texas and the state’s “junk science” law have played a prominent role in legal maneuvers to stop a scheduled execution. Robert L. Roberson, age 58, received the death penalty for the capital murder of his two-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis,…
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