Tag: hospitals
The Healthy Skeptic: Inflation in health care and health insurance
Recent government releases on price trends suggests that health care and health insurance prices are increasing at a relatively low rate. The Bureau of...
The Healthy Skeptic: Where health care dollars go
Last week, I summarized part of the most recent annual report on national health spending. In this column, the focus is on where the...
The Healthy Skeptic: Employers and consumers are getting ripped off by...
Spending for services at hospitals is a large portion of total U.S. health care spending, 42% of all costs for privately paid services. The...
The Healthy Skeptic: The concentration of health care spending in the...
There are several ways to look at the distribution of health care spending in the United States — for example, by payment type, by...
The Healthy Skeptic: The impact of illegal immigration on our health...
Hospitals have been challenged in recent years, with the epidemic upending operations. Traditional care patterns were disrupted both in the inpatient and outpatient settings...
Hospital systems around the US are bringing back mask mandates
(Daily Caller News Foundation) — Several hospital systems in the United States are slowly bringing back mask mandates as fears over COVID-19 reemerge, according...
Former nurse describes COVID-19 protocols as ‘medical murder’
Gail Macrae is a California nurse turned whistleblower who was fired for refusing to take the COVID-19 shot. She joined Liz Collin this week...
1984 Minnesota law prevents hospitals from increasing bed capacity
With the state experiencing record hospitalizations, some readers have asked Alpha News to look into a 1984 Minnesota law that restricts the construction of...