The Commonwealth Fund has posted an online overview of the past year in health care. The following health care highlights from 2014 are identified and briefly discussed:
- Uninsured rate drops
- Spending slowdown continues
- Republicans gain control of Congress and more
- Supreme Court takes up an ACA challenge
- Sovaldi draws attention to specialty drug prices
- Ebola is a wake-up call on global health security
- Delivery system reform gathers steam
- Wiring of the health system continues
Source: Blumenthal D and Squires D. 2014: the health care year in review. Commonwealth Fund Blog, Dec. 23, 2014. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/blog/2014/dec/2014-health-care-year
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Filed under: Accountable care organizations, Electronic health records, Future trends, Health care, Health expenditures, Health reform, Pharmaceuticals, Population health, Posted by Diana Culbertson | Tagged: health policy trends |
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