healthcare costs

We’re in a cost of living crisis and people can’t afford to manage their fertility.Young people are being criminalised for stealing condoms, menstrual products and pregnancy tests from supermarkets.A copper IUD is one of the most efficient…

Doctors are calling on the Federal Government to slug Australians with a sugar tax on soft drinks, which would rake in $814 million annually.The Australian Medical Association (AMA) is pushing for the introduction of a 16 cent levy for a…

Fewer than half the people in a new Gallup survey have favorable opinions of the U.S. health-care system, with a majority saying it is only fair or poor. It is the first time since 2001, when the survey giant started recording…

U.S. employers must brace for healthcare cost increases at more than 5% for next year “and beyond,” ... according to the latest report from the employee benefits consultancy Mercer, released Dec. 8, 2022. getty U.S. employers must brace…

"By fostering competition, price transparency has delivered higher quality, lower prices, and better ... value in just about every sector of our economy," writes Sally Pipes. "Health care has been an exception for decades—thanks largely to…

More than half of Americans in a new Gallup poll said they have negative views of the cost and equity of health care in the United States. Three-quarters of respondents in the West Health-Gallup poll released on Thursday gave the…