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Prices paid to hospitals nationally during 2018 by privately insured patients averaged 247% of what Medicare would have paid, with wide variation in prices among states, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Some states (Arkansas, Michigan and Rhode Island) had relative prices under 200% of Medicare, while other states (Florida, Tennessee, Alaska, West Virginia

‘Hundreds’ of epilepsy and MS patients are paying up to £800 a month for private medicinal cannabis because ‘nothing has changed’ since health chiefs made them legal on the NHS Specialist doctors can prescribe unlicensed marijuana containing THC  There is thought to have been very few, if any, prescription on the NHS  NICE ruled cannabis

NHS has paid private consultants £26MILLION to ‘review demand’ and ‘support sustainability’ as part of an ‘unacceptable’ shake-up More than 550 non-clinical jobs have been made at a cost of £32million a year British Medical Association warns money is being diverted from patient care Freedom of Information request was sent to NHS bodies in 44

Patients spend a record £1.1BILLION on private healthcare to avoid soaring NHS waiting times which leave them ‘let down and suffering’ People spent 75 per cent more on private medical treatment in 2017 than 2012    Knee and hip ops, cataracts and cancer treatment were the most common The data comes from an analysis by market

The public alcohol and drug system is chronically underfunded. About 200,000 people receive treatment for alcohol or other drug problems each year in Australia, but the demand is estimated at closer to 500,000. The result is long waiting lists for some publicly funded treatment, or people choosing private services to fill the gap. But there