The operational cleavage between the US public health and medical care systems contributed to the country’s difficulty in containing community spread of COVID-19 in the pandemic’s first months.

Cuts to public health and Medicaid don’t make costs disappear — they just shift them downstream to the health care system. Hospitals are already seeing the fallout: longer wait times, overburdened ...

14. Iceland • Money spent on public health: $3,758 per capita • Share of GDP spent on public health: 7.0% • Primary care and specialist doctors: 3.9 per 1,000 people (in 2017) • Life ...

Several well-known examples exist like the UK, which has the National Health Service, and the Canadian public health care system. Here are more examples of countries have implemented near ...

Some hold significant promise; for example, funding approaches such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s Services All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) model are ...

These systems, though, come with strong oversight from the state and the public. They are called public health care districts and Palomar Health is one of them. Over the past year, I’ve written a few ...

For example, the Medicare trustees report that keeping the current Medicare payment rates for hospitals, nursing homes, and home health agencies will lead to less availability of medical services ...

In perhaps the most famous example, the state’s police power to protect public health was affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 1905 decision in Jacobson v. Massachusetts .

Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. by Margaret Coker , The Current , June 26 ...