double or triple what it would in a peer country. An appendectomy, for example, costs $3,050 in Britain and $6,710 in New Zealand, two countries that regulate health prices. In the United States, the average price is $13,020.The second outcome is huge price variation, as each doctor’s office and hospital sets its own charges for…
Drivers line up for COVID-19 testing in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles in May. Kevin Winter/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Winter/Getty Images Drivers line up for COVID-19 testing in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles in May. Kevin Winter/Getty Images During the coronavirus pandemic, many scientists who usually have nothing…
June 3, 2020, 10:21 a.m. ETFor decades, drug companies have depended on a component in the blood of the horseshoe crab to test injectable medicines, including vaccines, for dangerous bacterial contaminants called endotoxins.Conservationists and some businesses have pushed for wide acceptance of an alternative test, to protect the horseshoe crabs and birds that feed on…
A health worker takes samples from a man to test him for Covid-19 coronavirus. (Pedro Pardo, AFP) A nationwide backlog in tests and delays of up to seven to 12 days has made testing for high-risk individuals even more difficult.This has contributed to a decision by the Western Cape government to prioritise testing only for…
The pet German shepherd is the first dog in the U.S. to test positive for the coronavirus The first dog in the United States has tested positive for the coronavirus. The United States Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories announced Tuesday that a pet German shepherd has tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the viruses that cause COVID-19,…
5 min read WHEN THE JUSTICE Department released a trove of Epstein-related files on January 30 and then pulled down thousands of pages after redaction failures exposed victims’ identifying information and explicit material, I felt a familiar gut-drop. Once again, the people with the least power were being asked to pay twice—first for the abuse
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It’s the rare policy question that unites Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and the Democratic-led Maryland government against President Donald Trump and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California: How should health insurers use AI? Regulating artificial intelligence, especially its use by health insurers, is becoming a politically divisive topic, and it’s scrambling traditional partisan lines.