HEALTHCARE
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Ouch! Wisconsin’s 5 most-Googled injuries (& their symptoms)
Have you ever been injured and immediately turned to Google for answers? You’re not alone.
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Insulin prices plunge for Wisconsinites due to Biden’s American Rescue Plan
Eli Lilly, Sanofi, and Novo Nordisk’s price cuts are expected to benefit many Wisconsinites who need insulin to survive. The companies first announced the moves last year, as a response to an American Rescue Plan provision that threatened to penalize them if they kept prices high.
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Wisconsin’s nursing shortage is getting worse. Here’s how lawmakers can fix it.
According to the 2022 Wisconsin Hospital Association report, in 2016, 6% of registered nurse positions and 9% of certified nursing assistant positions were open. Last year, those numbers jumped to 11% and 17%, respectively. At this rate, Wisconsin is projected to be short almost 20,000 registered nurses by 2035.
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To lower the cost of expensive drugs, Biden targets Big Pharma’s patents
Under a plan announced Thursday, the government would consider overriding the patent for high-priced drugs that have been developed with the help of taxpayer money and letting competitors make them in hopes of driving down the cost.
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Delivering her baby at the side of the road: One Wisconsin mother’s story
It was a Wednesday night in August. With her toddler in bed, Dani Grey was watching a little TV with her husband, Matt. She was 38 weeks pregnant and had no reason to think she was about to go into labor. But at 11 p.m., contractions began—and quickly escalated to two minutes apart by 11:30…
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Trump vows again to try to ‘terminate’ Affordable Care Act, while Wisconsin Dems push to make it better
Strengthening BadgerCare and providing a public option would lower costs and provide more stable health insurance coverage for families.
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Biden to tout lowered prescription drug prices in ad during Packers-Lions
Voters in both swing states are getting messages about the president’s accomplishments on drug prices, insulin price caps, and closing corporate tax loopholes.
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Opinion: It’s open enrollment time for Medicare, and it’s better than ever thanks to changes by Biden and Baldwin
The Inflation Reduction Act ended 30 years of taxpayers not being able to use their buying power to get lower prices from big drug companies.
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Opinion: For-profit healthcare is killing us. It’s past time for a BadgerCare expansion and a public option.
Wisconsin is one of only 10 states yet to accept federal funds to provide more families with consistent, affordable healthcare coverage. When I first started working as a rural public health nurse, 40 years ago, I’d get calls from folks saying things like: “Could you check on my neighbor, Margaret? She’s elderly and I haven’t…
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Think house calls are a thing of the past? These UW alumni are bringing them back.
Fed up with long waits, scheduling headaches, and hurried visits at doctors offices–UW alumnus Sal Braico and Pete Johnson looked to the past to solve a current problem. “The existing healthcare system is broken,” Braico told alumni magazine On Wisconsin. “We wanted to find a different answer by leveraging smart tech.” Combining their backgrounds in…
