This doctor breaks down language and cultural barriers to health care : washingtonpost

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This doctor breaks down language and cultural barriers to health care

This doctor breaks down language and cultural barriers to health care

Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health.(Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)It was the early 1960s, and 9-year-old Eliseo Pérez-Stable was at home in Miami with the chickenpox, dreading his return to the third grade.Nearly a year had passed since his parents in Cuba — fearful of the communists' rise to power — had sent him out of that country with his grandparents, and he still couldn't grasp English.


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Report: Cost of health care in Bay State jumps to $8,424 per person

Report: Cost of health care in Bay State jumps to $8,424 per person

The cost of health care for every man, woman and child in Massachusetts grew to a whopping $8,424 in 2015 — a nearly 4 percent increase from the previous year — and skyrocketing prescription drug costs accounted for a third of that growth, according to a new report.The Center for Health Information and Analysis today released its annual health care cost analysis for the Bay State, which found that total costs rose to $57.2 billion.The state spent $54 billion in 2014 for health care, which was a 4.8 percent increase from 2013.


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The health care sector has only lagged this badly twice, and once was when Clinton was in the White House

The health care sector has only lagged this badly twice, and once was when Clinton was in the White House

The health care sector has been particularly vulnerable to comments from Hillary Clinton, who sent biotech careening in September of 2015.That was when she tweeted about price gouging after revelations about gigantic price hikes by Martin Shkreli's Turing Pharmaceuticals.That sent the popular IBB ishares Nasdaq Biotech ETF down by about 20 percent in just a few weeks last fall, and the IBB bottomed with a near 33 percent decline by February.