Health coverage from Delaware USA Wire.
Why Should Delaware Care? Both nationally and locally healthcare is changing. Reductions to federal subsidies are set to hit early next year, the state passed laws to change how providers are paid for care, as well as the state introducing…
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Why Should Delaware Care? The University of Delaware is the largest higher education institution in the state, enrolling more than 20,000 students and employing more than 9,000.
Why Should Delaware Care? Delaware’s opioid settlement program is responsible for supporting organizations battling addiction across the state.
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Why Should Delaware Care? Delaware’s hospitals are powerful and often consolidated entities. For decades, each of the state’s three main hospital systems have remained within their bounds by county line.
Why Should Delaware Care? Hospitals outspend other sectors of the healthcare industry by wide margins. In recent years, Delaware lawmakers have passed legislation meant to lower the impacts of those costs on the state and on patients.
Why Should Delaware Care? Government works best when its citizens are knowledgeable and engaged. Delaware’s government has scores of commissions, working groups, agencies and legislative committees.
Why Should Delaware Care? Hospital systems across the state are competing to serve a rapidly aging population and meet their care needs.
Why Should Delaware Care? Sanfilippo Syndrome is a genetic condition that impacts 1 in every 70,000 children. Last month, federal regulators approved a gene therapy treatment to prevent complications for those children born.
Across the state, young men are dying before they’ve had a chance to really live.
Why Should Delaware Care? Hospitals outspend other sectors of the healthcare industry by wide margins. In recent years, Delaware lawmakers have passed legislation meant to lower their costs on the state and on patients.