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Even College Students Care about Healthcare Price Transparency!
ByadminHere is an article from the University of Indiana student newspaper, showing that even young adults in United States realize we have a price transparency problem in the U.S. healthcare system. Very exciting to see how many people care about this topic! Infections aren’t the only thing to have gone viral around hospitals lately. The…
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The Key to Winning a Pulitzer? Don't Take Time To Think!
ByadminBret Stephens won a Pulitzer Prize for his foreign affairs column in the Wall Street Journal op-ed page. Only in his early 40s, Stephens can already boast of an enviable number of accomplishments. He has already been Editor-in-Chief of the Jerusalem Post. And he is now Deputy Editor at the Wall Street Journal, one of…

