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Health Care Job Growth Dropped During Pandemic, Recovered by 2024

Physician's Weekly

Bureau of Labor Statistics 2016 to 2024 Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages to assess health care employment changes relative to changes in non-health care sectors during the same period. Thuy Nguyen, Ph.D., “Health care employment growth decreased amid the pandemic but fully recovered by 2024,” the authors write.

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CMS proposes to Withdraw Trump Era Most Favored Nation (MFN) Drug Pricing Rule

FDA Law Blog

The idea of basing Medicare drug reimbursement on prices in foreign countries was first proposed during the Obama Administration in 2016. The Trump Administration rule had a troubled history.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

Makary published a controversial study in 2016 hypothesizing that errors killed 250,000 people a year in the U.S. Stephen Parente, a University of Minnesota finance professor who said he consults informally with Trump health officials, said much of AHRQ’s work could be done by others.