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January 23, 2025 | Health News

The United States is leaving the World Health Organization. What could that mean for Spokane?

As of President Donald Trump’s first day back in office Monday, the United States is leaving the World Health Organization (WHO). University of Washington professor of Global Health Carey Farquhar weighs in on what this means for our country's public health.

Healthcare cost United States Joseph Dieleman Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

November 07, 2017 | Health News

Four Reasons Why U.S. Health Care Is So Expensive

By Susan Scutti / CNN

Health care spending in the United States increased by about $933.5 billion between 1996 and 2013, according to an analysis published Tuesday in the medical journal JAMA. More than half of this surge was a result of generally higher prices for health care services.

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