Can Reducing Poverty Improve Health?
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Measuring the Cost of COVID in Doctor's Visits
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A COVID infection leads to an average of nine extra visits per year.
Read MoreRising Cost of Healthcare in US Driven By Rising Prices in Absence of Rising Demand
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A new study finds that the main driver of rising health costs in the US is the prices of goods and services. But prices are rising as demand is decreasing.
Read MoreWhat the Market Will Bear: Doc-to-Doc on Skyrocketing Drug Prices with Dr. Umesh Khot
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Dr. Umesh Khot is the Vice-Chairman of the Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic and the author of a research letter in the New England Journal of Medicine examining the effects of the astronomical price increases of isoproteronol and nitroprusside. In this doc-to-doc interview, Dr. Khot discusses the reasons the prices increased, the effects that had on utilization of the drugs, and the implications this has more broadly in our healthcare system.
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