New York City Hall Announces Deficit Face Mask: What Does It Mean?

New York has announced a shortage of protective face masks. In this regard, stores are prohibited from raising prices for this product, and buyers are encouraged to leave complaints about dishonest sellers. This is stated in a press release from the Department of Consumer and Workers' Rights Protection (DCWP). Scarcity ...

New York will spend $ 40 million to prepare for the expected outbreak of coronavirus

There are still no confirmed cases in New York State, but authorities have begun active preparations to deal with the alleged coronavirus outbreak. The New York Times writes about this. A day after the Centers for Disease Control warned ...

Rating of the healthiest and most unhealthy states of America

The states with the healthiest people are concentrated in the northern half of the United States and the West Coast. This is evidenced by data from the annual report of the American Health Rankings, prepared by the United Health Fund, Fox Business reports. The United Health Fund analyzed 50 states in five main categories, ...

American families pay an additional $ 8000 to cover the country's health care costs

According to two leading economists, American families are essentially paying $ 8000 in taxes to help cover the country's skyrocketing health care costs. Princeton University economists Anne Keyes and Angus Deaton at the American Economic ...

After the accident, a San Francisco resident received a bill from the hospital for $ 28 thousand

On July 9, 2016, Justin Sanders, 19, was walking along a sidewalk in San Francisco, California, when a metal rod protruding from the back of a city bus hit him in the face. After the blow, the guy lost consciousness. Sanders woke up in the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. ...

Why American medicine benefits immigrants and even illegal immigrants

Insurance companies have always depended on the number of participants in insurance programs to be able to contribute to the insurance pool that protects their business—so that those with the highest utilization rates are covered by those with lower rates. In other words, everything is in the insurance...

Florida hit the top of the sickest states: America's health card

In America, deaths from infectious diseases are 20% lower than in 1980, but some states are still more vulnerable than others, the authors of the University of Washington study say, the Daily Mail writes. The study concludes that in parts of the United States where ...

How climate change affects the health of Florida residents

Most people think that climate change is a problem of the future that needs to be prevented now, but there is no point in worrying about its impact on people yet. But doctors in Florida said they can already see how climate change is negatively impacting...

A doctor from New York received 13 years for fraud with Medicare

In New York, 51-year-old surgeon Said Imran Ahmed was sentenced to 13 years in prison, a $ 20 fine and $ 7 million in compensation for fraud with the federal health insurance program Medicare. This was reported by the press service of the Department of Justice. Ahmed was convicted ...

30 children have already died from a flu epidemic in the USA

As of January 13, the US flu epidemic has spread to 49 states, excluding Hawaii. From January 7 to 13, 14 new laboratory confirmed cases of influenza were recorded, writes CNN. Thus, the total number of cases in ...

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