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Income Inequality is Fostering Mis-Trust, the Edelman 2020 Trust Barometer Observes

Health Populi

Together, these three factors erode workers’ confidence in jobs and their personal household economies and financial health. The second chart comes from the study, quantifying global citizens’ trust levels by industry sector since 2012. Technology was the only industry whose trust-equity fell in the year.

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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

In his testimony on healthcare market’s consolidation effects on quality, cost and access, Paul Ginsberg, Director of Public Policy at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics cites some key drivers of consolidation. ACOs require scaling which small hospitals cannot provide. Clinical applications.

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Moral Hazard and the ACA: The Late Nobel Economist Kenneth Arrow’s Legacy Lives On

ACA Times

He notes that “it is frequently observed that widespread medical insurance increases the demand for medical care,” and that “the physicians themselves are not under any control and it may be convenient for them to prescribe more expensive medication, private nurses, more frequent treatments, and other marginal variations of care.”.

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Rwanda : The Digital Health Pioneer

Lloyd Price

Its objective is to put an accessible and affordable health service into the hands of everyone on earth by combining the ever growing computing power of machines with the best medical expertise of humans to create a comprehensive, immediate and personalized health service and make it universally available.

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What Would Kenneth Arrow Think?

ACA Times

He notes that “it is frequently observed that widespread medical insurance increases the demand for medical care,” and that “the physicians themselves are not under any control and it may be convenient for them to prescribe more expensive medication, private nurses, more frequent treatments, and other marginal variations of care.”.