![]() ![]() ![]() In his written testimony, he pointed to studies which found that individuals who lost their jobs had an increased risk of dying within a year, often from suicide, an accident or a drug overdose. “We’re seeing people get let go in a period where we have an opioid epidemic, and so losing your job can be financially devastating to your health.” Not just a paycheck: The health consequences of losing a job are “eye opening,” Cooper added. We see evidence of all three happening,” Cooper said. They can slow down hiring or they can let workers go. “For firms that offer employer-sponsored health insurance, when the price of insurance goes up, they broadly have three choices. That in turn can push up insurance premiums, making it more expensive for employers offering health insurance to retain workers. When hospitals merge and gain bargaining leverage, they can raise their prices, Zack Cooper, an associate professor of public health and economics at Yale University, told lawmakers. So argued a Yale health economist during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on hospital consolidation yesterday. Stricter antitrust enforcement in the health care sector could save lives. Sutter Health was an antitrust target of Xavier Becerra when he was California's attorney general | AP Over the past three decades, the cancer death rate has fallen 33 percent, according to the American Cancer Society. On the current trajectory, mortality trends suggest an age-adjusted decrease of 44 percent by 2047, but Carnival told the audience the administration believes it can hit the 50 percent goal or exceed it. “We do not have the tools today that will get us to that goal of ending cancer as we know it.” Reality check: “Let’s be really clear, this is still about innovation,” Carnival said. Greater success in preventing and treating diabetes and obesity Continued progress in reducing smoking rates Reauthorization of the National Cancer Act, the 1971 law that created the National Cancer Institute, to use as a vehicle to upgrade and diversify clinical trials ![]() New therapies driven in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, which received an appropriation of $2.5 billion this fiscal year Reaching President Joe Biden’s cancer moonshot goal will take both innovation and changes in American lifestyles.īiden’s moonshot coordinator, Danielle Carnival, spelled out what needs to happen at POLITICO’s Health Care Summit this week: the lives saved if President Biden’s cancer moonshot succeeds in reducing the death rate from the disease by 50 percent over the next 25 years ![]()
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