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Comparing Presidents, Healthcare Costs

…Federal spending on healthcare as a percentage of the GDP over time and Federal spending on healthcare as a percentage of the federal budget over time. Additionally, it shows how…

Singapore and healthcare

…responsibility, compulsory savings, and regulatory control of healthcare services and costs.” The public healthcare facilities in Singapore have been clustered, since 2002, into two integrated networks, each government-owned and managed…

Dear Ms. Boonstra: It’s too bad that you don’t live in Kentucky. Or Rhode Island. Or New York State. Or California. Or Arkansas. Or that Michigan’s state government now has a Republican governor, a Republican-controlled House, and Republican-controlled Senate. And, yes, that healthcare.com didn’t work until December. [UPDATED]

…states that did not create their own online healthcare exchange the opportunity to cruelly try to manipulate people Boonstra into buying its costliest plan, by implying that that was the…

Clinton Announces When She Will Disclose Her Healthcare Insurance Improvement Plan: She’ll announce it just as soon as the Republican presidential candidates tell us theirs. [Typo in sentence referencing Max Ehrenfreund’s Wonkblog post corrected 3/2 at 2:28 p.m.]

…minute after the Republican presidential candidates outline their plans to move toward universal healthcare coverage. Or instead, she could refer us to Thorpe. Since he will again be a healthcare

Healthcare Cost Increases, by President

…keep down private healthcare costs by increasing public healthcare expenditures. The table below shows total real expenditures – private, federal and state: Kennedy__7.85% LBJ______8.58% Nixon____5.86% Ford_____5.77% Carter____4.04% Reagan___4.93% GHW____6.18% Clinton___2.52%…

Healthcare News

…enrollees up to 600% FPL and improved subsidies for the 200 – 400%FPL. Healthcare Job Growth Outpaces Nearly Every Sector in 2018, MedPage Today, John Commins For 2018, healthcare created…

Changes in Healthcare Costs

…annual YoY change in real healthcare costs defined three three ways. The green line shows the annual change in total healthcare expenditures (adjusted for inflation). The blue line shows the…