Changes in Access to Urban Mental Healthcare Access to affordable substance abuse treatment has become an increasingly relevant policy issue in large American cities. Annual drug-induced deaths in the United States has more than doubled in the past decade, with the majority of these cases being concentrated in the country’s urban centers. As… Read more »
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Hospitals Do Not Reduce the Dollar Amount of Uncompensated Care They Provide Upon Joining Health Systems
Every year, hundreds of diabetic patients in the United States die because they were not able to afford their daily shots of life-sustaining insulin and chose to, out of sheer desperation, ration their insulin prescription so that it lasted for as many days as they could stretch it. For such individuals, uncompensated care that hospitals… Read more »
Profit vs. Patient Care: How can we keep pharmaceutical companies accountable?
The United States is notorious for its extravagant spending on healthcare and the climbing costs of prescription drugs. In what seems to be a time of unjustifiable pharmaceutical price spikes, what is keeping pharmaceutical companies accountable? The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most profitable sectors in the U.S., partly due to the minimal regulations… Read more »