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10 states predicted to have the greatest physician shortages in 2030 By Riz Hatton Published March 2, 2022   California is expected to experience a shortage of 32,669 physicians by 2030, according to a study published in Human Resources for Health.   The study, published Feb. 6, analyzes current and future physician job surplus and […]

AAMC Supports Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2023 By Stuart Heiser Published March 29, 2023   Reps. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) today introduced the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2023. This bipartisan legislation would gradually expand the number of Medicare-supported medical residency positions by 14,000 over seven years. The AAMC

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Insurers Are Gaming Medicare — To The Tune Of $140 Billion By Matthew Cunningham-Cook and Lucy Dean Stockton Published October 4, 2023   The federal government is losing as much as $140 billion per year by subsidizing private Medicare Advantage plans, according to a bombshell new report. In the groundbreaking investigation, health care researchers identified

Healing Justice Lineages: Disrupting the Medical-Industrial Complex By Sonia Sarkar, Cara Page and Erica Woodland Published April 18, 2023   Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety is a new book from Cara Page and Erica Woodland. I had the opportunity to speak with both authors about the movement

A slow start for Newsom’s gun plan By Lara Korte, Jeremy B. White and Dustin Gardiner Published October 27, 2023   DRIVING THE DAY: Gov. Gavin Newsom is again in Beijing today. Our intrepid colleague Blanca Begert is traveling with the governor during his tour. You can read her coverage in the California Climate newsletter.

US surgeons are killing themselves at an alarming rate. One decided to speak out By Christina Frangou Published September 26, 2023   Carrie Cunningham puffed out her cheeks and exhaled. She looked out at the audience filled with 2,000 of her peers, surgeons who were attending the annual meeting of the Association of Academic Surgery,

Health care CEOs hauled in $4 billion last year as inflation pinched workers, analysis shows By Bob Herman, J. Emory Parker, Adam Feuerstein, Lizzy Lawrence and Mohana Ravindranat Published August 17, 2023   The health care industry didn’t just provide a safe haven for jittery stock investors in 2022, a year defined by inflation and

2022 Employer Health Benefits Survey By KFF Staff Published October 27, 2022   Section 10: Plan Funding   Many firms, particularly larger firms, choose to pay for some or all of the health services of their workers directly from their own funds rather than by purchasing health insurance for them. This is called self-funding. Both