Business of Health Care
These venture capital funds are working to level the playing field for underrepresented entrepreneurs trying to disrupt health care delivery.
The Coalition to Protect America鈥檚 Health Care Sept. 6 launched a national television ad and digital campaign urging Congress to reject hundreds of billions of dollars in funding cuts that would jeopardize access to patient care across the country, especially in underserved communities.
The Department of Justice withdrew three policy statements on health care antitrust enforcement, saying they are 鈥渙verly permissive on certain subjects, such as information sharing,鈥 and that 鈥渁 case-by-case enforcement approach鈥 would allow it to better evaluate health care mergers and competition鈥
U.S. spending on health care grew 4.6% in 2019, similar to 2018 but slightly more than overall growth in the economy, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported in Health Affairs.
A recent analysis from the Peterson Center on Healthcare and the Kaiser Family Foundation provides an incomplete picture of U.S. spending on health care while downplaying the 鈥渋mmense role鈥 that drug costs play, writes Aaron Wesolowski, AHA鈥檚 vice president of policy research, analytics and鈥
A recent analysis from the Peterson Center on Healthcare and the Kaiser Family Foundation, 鈥淲hat drives health spending in the U.S. compared to other countries,鈥 does not provide a full picture on health care spending in the U.S. while also downplaying the immense role that drug costs play in鈥