There Are More Ways Now Than Ever To Prevent Cervical Cancer

More than 13,000 American women were diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2018. More than 4,000 died from the disease that year. Those are tragic facts for lots of reasons, chief among them being that cervical cancer is often preventable.

The good news is, there’s more ways to prevent cervical cancer than ever.

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Why High Drug Prices Persist Despite The Fact Good Medicines Are Lowering Healthcare Spending

Here are a few things we know to be true.

●      Healthcare spending in the U.S. is too high

●      Drug prices in the U.S. are growing rapidly

●      Drug prices in the U.S. are higher than they are in other parts of the world

Based on these facts, you’d think high drug prices are causing healthcare spending to accelerate. However, you’d be wrong. Healthcare spending is growing less than expected right now, largely because some excellent medicines are keeping people healthier than they otherwise would be (and thus reducing their need for more expensive medical care).

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Buying Junk Food With Taxpayer Dollars: Whether Interventions to Encourage Healthy Purchasing Work

One of my elderly relatives was in line at the grocery store one day and saw the person ahead of him charging what looked like a cart full of junk food to her food assistance card. My relative was incensed: Why, should his hard earned tax dollars be used to pay for someone’s Cheetos?

Currently, one in seven Americans receive some kind of government assistance to pay for food. The largest such program – called SNAP for “supplemental nutrition assistance program” – subsidizes a wide range of food purchases. No alcohol or tobacco, mind you, but as many Cheetos, Pepsi-colas, and hot dogs as a person can fit within their budget. Subsidizing such unhealthy foods is politically controversial, raising the question: what would happen if people were only allowed to use SNAP dollars to buy healthy food?

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