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Many doctors unaware of cancer’s ‘financial toxicity’
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Few Americans aware of President Trump’s prescription drug plan
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Massachusetts hospital merger could drive up health care spending
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High healthcare spending blamed on hospital mergers, administrative costs
Ashish Jha of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health told the Senate Health Education Labor & Pensions Committee that he blamed high healthcare prices on administrative costs and the less-competitive markets created by hospital mergers.
Lowering health care costs may mean shifting where care is delivered
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