I wish all my readers a happy holidays. Here’s hoping 2022 will be more peaceful, pandemic-free and politically uplifting.
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The top 15 most-read stories on GoozNews from 2021:
The Failed Promise of Interoperability (Dec. 1, 2021)
Divorce Health Care Style (April 14, 2021)
Do Something! (Jan. 8, 2021)
Whose Drug Is It Anyway? (Oct. 4, 2021)
The Payoff for Failed Back Surgery (April 6, 2021)
Incestuous Economics (Aug. 30, 2021)
Fixing Primary Care, Part 1 and Fixing Primary Care, Part 2 (Nov. 10, 2021)
Medicare Advantage Advocacy (Dec. 10, 2021)
Health and the Unemployed (Dec. 13, 2021)
Raise Hospital Prices — In a Pandemic? (Feb. 8, 2021)
The Pandemic Drove a Stake into Primary Care (Feb. 26, 2021)
Budgets, not piecework, work best (Dec. 16, 2021)
Medicare Advantage’s Ongoing Scandal (Nov. 11, 2021)
The All-Payer Pricing Alternative (June 6, 2021)
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