Justin Leventhal

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  • Jul 16, 2026
    America has a shortage of healthcare workers, and patients are paying the price. Many communities, especially in rural areas, do not have enough doctors, registered nurses (RNs), and...
  • Jul 7, 2026
    Healthcare ranges from routine to complex, but in many states, doctors who could be focused on more complex care still spend valuable time treating patients with routine problems....
  • Jun 25, 2026
    A patient should not need a car, a day off work, and a nearby doctor’s office to receive basic healthcare. Yet for millions of Americans, access to healthcare depends less on...
  • Jun 9, 2026
    Imagine leaving a hospital with your newborn child only to learn your bill was $24,000 more than what it would have been at another hospital in the same area. This is the reality for...
  • May 22, 2026
    In an attempt secure healthcare supply chains and bring more manufacturing to the United States, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing to reward hospitals...
  • May 8, 2026
    Prescription drug prices keep rising, driven in part by a system in which pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) sit at the center—controlling which drugs are covered, what...
  • Apr 15, 2026
    Despite the rapidly increasing cost of healthcare, productivity in the industry remains stagnant. In nearly every other sector of the economy automation drives efficiency and lowers...
  • Mar 12, 2026
    Many cutting-edge medicines come with sky-high price tags, leaving patients struggling to afford them. Biosimilars were introduced to help fix this problem. Think of them as the...
  • Feb 4, 2026
    If you wanted to design a health insurance system to keep drug prices high, you’d build exactly what the United States has today: a marketplace where patients never see real...