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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. Speaking of design, this Summit was indeed well-designed by spotlighting pragmatic representatives from these various stakeholder groups.

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The Healthcare and Macro-Economic Impacts of Living with Endemic COVID – Listening to Fitch

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The economic and healthcare system impacts of this were explored in the Post-Covid Healthcare Landscape , delivered by Fitch Solutions’ Jamie Davies and Beau Noafshar, leaders in the Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, and Medical Devices groups.

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Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?

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For perspective, let’s examine the dollars spent for lobbying by each of the largest health care stakeholder associations, numbers brought to us by the Center for Responsive Politics.

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

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If you’re in health care and don’t live under a rock, you have probably heard that United Health Group (UHG) has acquired PatientsLikeMe (PLM). When this occurred, it didn’t cause more than a ripple of interest outside biotech. Cause it’s always been a matter of trust . A Matter of Trust, by Billy Joel.

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Prescription Drug Costs In America Through the Patient Lens, via IQVIA, GoodRx and a New $2 Million Therapy

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. “A therapy is useless if no one can afford it,” asserted Cathryn Donaldson from AHIP, the health insurance advocacy group, quoted in the story. ” The politics of prescription drug pricing will continue to be personal for health care voters, I forecast in my own scenarios looking toward not 2023 — but 2020.

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Two-Thirds of Americans Say Healthcare Doesn’t Work Well, in RealClear Politics Poll

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population, engaged in health care decisions but more cost-conscious and less satisfied. This group has more Millennials, less income and the lowest proportion of over-65s. They tend to be more politically engaged and have the largest group of Independents across the four segments.