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California’s Ambitious Plan to Regulate Health Prices, Explained

California’s Ambitious Plan to Regulate Health Prices, Explained

The Wharton School’s Mark Pauly explained the difference between all-payer and single-payer health-care systems. Though similar in their objectives of efficiency and reduced overhead, all-payer doesn’t eliminate private plans and creates set prices for medical procedures. Pauly said that consumers won’t likely notice the difference between the two systems.

Two Penn professors named Guggenheim Fellows
Charles Yang and Charles Bork

Two Penn professors named Guggenheim Fellows

The School of Arts and Sciences’ Charles Yang and Charles L. Bosk, also of the Perelman School of Medicine, have been named Guggenheim Fellows.

Jacquie Posey , Jacquie Posey

Second lady of Ghana visits Penn
The second lady of Ghana presented at Penn about her work on global health.

The second lady of Ghana (right) presented at Penn about her work on global health. With her is Florence Torson-Hart of the U.S.-Ghana Chamber of Commerce.

Second lady of Ghana visits Penn

The second lady of Ghana, Hajia Samira Bawumia, spoke to an energized room in Penn Nursing’s Fagin Hall about what’s needed to forge ahead on the road to progress on the African continent as a whole and in her home country.

Michele W. Berger

Dismantling health disparities in Philadelphia and beyond
Penn Center for Community Health Workers

Community health workers (CHWs) have proven highly effective in turning the vicious circle of poor health and poverty into a virtuous one of improved wellness and prosperity. The goal at the Penn Center for Community Health Workers is to create an effective program for these CHWs.

Dismantling health disparities in Philadelphia and beyond

Community health workers can help patients in ways others can’t—but these programs haven’t always been successful. One program reversed that trend and is a national model.

Christina Cook

Travel tips for breastfeeding mothers
Silhouette of an airplane flying through a sunset

Travel tips for breastfeeding mothers

As the traveling season gets underway, experts Diane Spatz and Elizabeth Froh offer advice for breastfeeding and pumping on trains, planes, and automobiles.