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Posted on May 8, 2024May 7, 2024 by John C. Goodman

The case for value -based drug pricing.

The costs of mask wearing: To be exempted from a three-month mask mandate, the average person was willing to pay $525, and some (0.9%) were willing to pay over $5,000.

Are prisons turning into de facto nursing homes?

Are scientists trying to cure sickle cell disease through gene editing doing so by using the genomes of white Europeans?

Health risk assessments — typically in-home reviews of enrollees’ health status – add as much as $12 billion in risk adjusted payments to Medicare Advantage plans.

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