by Jordana Choucair | Dec 17, 2021 | D.C. News
President Biden acknowledged that negotiations over his Build Back Better bill are poised to drag on into 2022 despite efforts to get it done before Christmas. “It takes time to finalize these agreements, prepare the legislative changes, and finish all the...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 16, 2021 | Inequities and SDOH
Third Horizon Strategies (THS) announced the launch of The Health Equity Project – a national coalition of individuals, organizations, policy leaders, and investors seeking to transform the nation’s health care and social safety net systems to improve equitable access...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 16, 2021 | Public Health/Prevention
Medical experts in the U.S. are bracing for a trio of threats this winter as flu and COVID-19 Omicron and Delta variant cases surge across the county. According to the CDC, between 837,000 and 845,000 people will have died by January 8. Federal health officials have...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 16, 2021 | Payers
The CMS Office of the Actuary released a report stating that the U.S. spent $4.1 trillion on health care in 2020. The report found that S. health care spending increased 9.7 percent in 2020 – a rate that is significantly higher than the roughly 5 percent growth in...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 16, 2021 | Life Sciences
A preliminary study found that two doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are less effective at neutralizing the omicron variant. The study, which examined the antibodies in blood samples from 30 people who had gotten two Moderna shots are, found that antibodies in...
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