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A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report

Health Populi

Reviewing the annual 2023 report from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science discussing The Use of Medicines in the U.S. It’s a volume speaking volumes on the current picture of prescribed meds, spending and revenues, health care utilization trends, and a forecast looking out to 2027.

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Medical costs projected to increase 6% by 2020, says PwC

Henry Kotula

Between 2020 and 2027, retail drug spending under private health insurance is projected to increase at a rate of 3 percent to 6 percent a year as the impact of generics on spending plateaus, biosimilars continue to see slow uptake, and costly new therapies enter the market. WHAT’S THE IMPACT. WHAT ELSE YOU SHOULD KNOW.

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Wasted: $1 of Every $4 Spent on Health Care In America

Health Populi

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) forecasts that prescription drug spending will be the fastest-growing cause of rising health spending by 2027. That’s the Holy Grail and vision in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen.