Health Headlines for Tuesday, October 25
Some Health Plan Costs to Increase by an Average of 25 Percent, U.S. Says
New York Times
Premiums for midlevel health plans under the Affordable Care Act will increase by an average of 25 percent next year, while consumers in some states will find significantly fewer insurance companies offering coverage, the federal government said Monday.
Uber returns to Upstate New York — this time to offer flu shots
Albany Times Union
Getting a flu shot on Tuesday in the Capital Region could be as easy as hailing a cab.
Merck Beats Estimates as Sales of Gardasil Vaccine Surge
Bloomberg
Merck & Co.’s third-quarter profit topped analysts’ estimates, helped by better-than expected sales of the vaccine Gardasil and the antibiotic Cubicin.
STPs: Top tips for community engagement
NHS Confederation/OP-ED by Jason Helgerson
Jason Helgerson, the man at the helm of New York State’s Medicaid programme, has spent his professional life driving health and social care transformation in the United States.
Meaningful community engagement will foster the support you need to transform services | Jason Helgerson
NHS Confederation/OP-ED by Jason Helgerson
Are you scared yet? NHS England has asked you to do the impossible: transform health and social care without enough money.