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The Economics of Healthcare – Part 11
In Part 10 of our blog series, The Economics of Healthcare, we left off at discussing the problems most hospitals are having post-COVID. These problems are labor and material/supply costs,

The Economics of Healthcare – Part 10
Though we have presented on a historical basis that healthcare has been recession proof, it does not mean that there are not issues in healthcare that create major problems in

The Economics of Healthcare – Part 9
On August 4, 2022, the President of United States Joseph R. Biden Jr., signed in to law the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA)[1]. This comprehensive law covered many areas,

The Economics of Healthcare – Part 8
We’ve received some excellent feedback from our readers, and we are encouraged to hear that this series of blogs has been of value. When we re-titled the blog, The United

The Economics of Healthcare – Part 7
With the U.S. facing yet another recession of unspecified depth and duration, widespread economic issues, some exacerbated by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, we have an abundance of economic news. These reports

The Economics of Healthcare – Part 6
Last week, we all witnessed a great deal of economic data and actions by the U.S. Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided that the U.S.