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In 2018, regulatory efforts took a back seat to the actions of private-industry health care players and businesses. Here's a look at the highlights.

Making single-payer health care the progressive position opens a door for more modest proposals to expand the government's role in health insurance.

The health care industry created 32,000 jobs in November, adding to the 328,000 health care positions created since early 2017.

The cost of a U.S. outpatient visit is more than six times what those in Japan pay, and twice as much as Canada, France and the United Kingdom.

As balance billing becomes more common, courts have stepped in to mediate cases and determine what "average market price" a hospital can actually charge.

A California law requiring drugmakers to notify the state of significant price increases has uncovered a total of 28 companies planning on prices increases substantially in 2019.