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

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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. Academic experts and technical experts.

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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

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From 2003 to 2019, the theory that prices are the primary driver of America’s spending more on health care than any other country is still the case. in fact devotes fewer hospital beds, physicians and nurses to health care delivery compared with other countries. On the supply side, the U.S.

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Prescription Drugs in the Pandemic, Year 2: Pricing Rx and Going Direct-to-Consumer

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There is one health care public policy issue that unites U.S. First, meet the stakeholders: they are patients, physicians (prescribers, which today can go beyond doctors per se to include nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and others depending on state licensure), payers, and manufacturers of the drugs.