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

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[Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act.

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

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We also expect innovation to come out of pharma and biotech labs, and who will pay for new-new therapies? For Medicare Part B programs alone, the drug could consume one-half of the total $57 billion of medicines spending… as much as the U.S. spends on NASA.

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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. voters across political party: that is the consumer-facing costs of prescription drugs.