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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

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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.”

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Americans Across Political Party Worry About Prescription Drug Prices – Especially to Deal with COVID-19

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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.

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Prescription Drugs in the Pandemic, Year 2: Pricing Rx and Going Direct-to-Consumer

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There is one health care public policy issue that unites U.S. Note in Exhibit 1 from the article the process and outcomes of UM programs for each of the stakeholders. Integrating with the telehealth service Care on the Optum Store. during the pandemic’s growing roster of contact-less health care companies.