Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

The coolest thing in health policy in the 21st century!! ” Amitabh Chandra gave the opening context-setting talk about the effects of health care cost-sharing on patients-as-consumers. Kavita Patel to assert in the first panel of the day that, “2713 is my favorite number.”

Health Policy 245

Health Policy Medicare Pharmaceuticals Life Science 245

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Beth writes that, “a whopping two-thirds of Americans now offer a thumbs-up on pharma” as the title of her article, calling out the 30-point gain from 32% in January 2020 to 62% in February 2021. Right now they’re very science- and research-forward versus very business-forward.”. Why was this the case?

Life Science 386

Life Science Pharmaceuticals Public Health BioTech 386

Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2020

The New England Journal of Medicine published an essay on June 4, 2020, titled, Specialty Drugs–A Distinctly American Phenomenon (my apologies–the article is behind the NEJM paywall). The phrase “specialty drugs” originated in the 1970s in the advent of injectable and infusion therapies.

BioTech 191

BioTech Medicare Life Science Telehealth 191