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And the Oscar Goes To….Power to the Patients!

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I look around and I see families devastated by medical bills and escalating prescription costs. No one should lose their livelihood, their home, their life because they can’t afford or understand the prices of their medical treatment. So, of course, healthcare and healthcare costs are important to me.

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

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She said, “of course it can,” as the day’s content proved out. Frictionless retail is also an important paradigm for health care, an industry rife with friction. Without these values and an ethical data framework, people won’t fully engage in health care…to the detriment of individual and public health.

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Will Health Consumers Morph Into Health Citizens? HealthConsuming Explains, Part 5

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The last chapter (8) of HealthConsuming considers whether Americans can become “health citizens.” ” “Citizens” in this sense goes back to the Ancient Greeks: I return to Hippocrates, whose name is, of course, the root of The Hippocratic Oath that physicians take.