COMMUNITY//December 9, 2020 “Stop consuming plastics! ” With Etienne Deffarges Stop consuming plastics! It is time to declare war to most plastics, principally in the area of packaged goods, unless we want to completely destroy our oceans that are already suffering a lot from the gazillion tons of plastics we dump on them every year. We …
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Five Things We Must Do To Improve the U.S. Healthcare System
Etienne Deffarges: 5 Things We Must Do To Improve the US Healthcare System | by Dr. William Seeds | Authority Magazine | August 25, 2020 “Bring universal healthcare to all Americans! Being the only country in the developed world that does not have universal healthcare represents one of the worst injustices of the modern world …
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State and Local Government Financial Challenges Caused by the Coronavirus Crisis, and Impact on Public Health ETIENNE DEFFARGES The U.S. government has provided a lot of financial relief to American households, small and large businesses, and hospitals to help mitigate the devastating economic and health impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The CARES Act totals nearly …
Read More »Effective Strategies to Reduce Costs and Utilization in US Healthcare
How to Reduce US Healthcare Costs (Published March 18, 2020) Our healthcare costs keep increasing much faster than inflation, year after year. According to figures released in December 2019 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the annual growth rate of healthcare spending was 4.6% in 2018, vs. 3.9% in 2017, 4.8% …
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