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Lowering health care costs is on all the candidates’ agendas, including President Trump’s. Just yesterday, he signed an executive order to require hospitals to make pricing more transparent, as a way to try to contain costs for consumers. Health care finance professor J.B. Silvers of Case Western University was able to jump into this confusing situation and analyze it for readers (and me, too), bringing his unique experience and knowledge to bear.
Silvers, a former insurance company executive, explains how the problem of surprise hospital billing goes way beyond the pricing for consumers. It’s often about deals between insurance companies and hospitals – deals they don’t want you to know about.
Also today: a big reason why Italy won its Olympic bid and a new way to detect exoplanets – using chemistry, and the power of Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency in the developing world.
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Dr. Paul Davis shows President Trump a surprise $17,000 medical bill his daughter received, while Trump spoke to reporters about surprise medical bills at the White House on May 9, 2019.
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J.B. Silvers, Case Western Reserve University
President Trump has been backing transparency in hospital pricing so that consumers can compare prices. But will that help when the real deals are done in secret?
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Science + Technology
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Nir Kshetri, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
Plenty of Western officials and media outlets have criticized Libra – but it's not meant for them.
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Natalie Hinkel, Arizona State University
Stars and planets are made from the same raw material. Rather than using huge surveys to find stars with exoplanets, a new strategy uses a star's chemistry to find ones likely to host giant planets.
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From our International Editions
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Samantha Nixon, The University of Queensland; Andrew Walker, The University of Queensland
Human eyes are very complex and are good at doing many jobs at once, while spiders have different sorts of eyes that do different jobs.
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Paul Szpak, Trent University
A skull found in West Greenland is proven to be the first-generation male offspring of a female narwhal and male beluga whale. The creature's unusual diet may have been a result of its strange teeth.
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Donell Holloway, Edith Cowan University
Companies scrutinise our online likes, dislikes, searches and purchases to produce data that can be used commercially. And it's often done without us understanding the full extent of the surveillance.
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Nir Kshetri
University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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