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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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