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I Tried to Revolutionize Health Care. Here’s Why It’s So Hard to Crack

When my company, Iodine, launched in 2013, we were part of an epidemic of startups seeking to change health care. There was great enthusiasm on the part of entrepreneurs and

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How the Gig Economy Can Help Solve America’s Growing Health Care Problems

In the age of the digital revolution, no industry is immune to disruption. And the growing ranks participating in the gig economy include lots of in-demand talent that offers specialized

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Why Americans Are So Damn Unhealthy

Stand by for another round of partisan warfare, as Senate Republicans grapple with a replacement for Obamacare. You can expect to hear a lot about access to health insurance and

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Make the most of Medicare’s drug coverage

Medicare offers prescription drug coverage to everyone with Medicare. It’s a good deal. Medicare subsidizes the outpatient drug benefit, generally paying about 75 percent of the program’s costs. Unless you

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New rules to regulate medical tourism to Israel

The Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, has passed a bill to regulate medical tourism, with measures to ensure that foreigners who go to Israel and pay privately for medical care get

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Does this medical bill look fat to you?

On March 16 I cut open my forehead and needed 16 stitches. When it was all said and done I had been charged $6,070.45. I’m not going to name the

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Trump’s budget cuts children’s health insurance program

President Donald Trump’s budget plans to cut the Children’s Health Insurance Program by at least 20% over the next two fiscal years and slash Medicaid, which covers millions more children.

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Medical tourism in Iran

The Health Ministry’s Health Tourism Council has authorised 45 more hospitals in Iran to admit international patients in one or more wards, taking the number of accredited hospitals for foreigners

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Large employers reduce healthcare costs up to 15% with high-touch, high-tech advocacy – study

According to a multi-year analysis conducted by Accolade, Inc., large, self-funded employers that disrupt traditional approaches to employee health benefits are achieving significant savings in annual healthcare claim costs. By

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The Cost Of Healthcare Is Killing Us

We spend over three trillion dollars on health care every year and we have worse outcomes than any other developed country – all of which spend on average about half

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