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California must quickly implement policies for tracking and controlling health care costs and price increases - Black Voice News

In summary To protect Californians from rising health care costs, the state needs to strengthen price transparency and price competition. By Glenn Melnick, Special to CalMatters Glenn Melnick is a professor of health care finance and public policy at the University of Southern California, drgmelnick@yahoo.com. Even before the onset of COVID-19, the cost of health […]

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