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Health Care and the Democratic Debates – Part 1 – Medicare For All, Rx Prices, Guns and Mental Health

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Elizabeth Warren assertively and transparently backed Bernie Sander’s Medicare for All proposal. She is concerned about “kicking half of America off of health insurance in 4 years,” pivoting to the “much bigger issue” of pharmaceuticals pricing. ” [This sad truth about U.S.

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The Economic Contours of the Change Healthcare Cyber Attack: Taking Stock So Far

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That’s TMI for me to write about in the Health Populi blog, but this story has a current-events twist: the pharmacist could not electronically link with my insurance company to transact my payment. My own thought-patterns have begun to organize and assess the economic impacts of this historic adverse event on the U.S.

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

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This challenge covers hospital-acquired conditions and adverse events, clinician-related inefficiency, and lack of adoption of preventive care practices like administering vaccines and addressing obesity and hypertension. Pricing failure as a waste-factor accounted for nearly another third of total waste in U.S. health care. patients).

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Thinking Pharma on a Friday: Europe’s Big Reforms for a Health Union & the U.S. 50-State Fragments

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On 26th April 2023, the EC unveiled the most significant reforms for the region’s pharmaceutical industry in twenty years. Predictably, the European pharmaceutical company stock share prices fell on the day.

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Health Care and the Democratic Debates – Round 2 – Battle Royale for M4All vs Medicare for All Who Want It – What It Means for Industry

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But this was Round 2 of the debate, with ten more White House aspirants sharing views — sometimes sparring — on issues of immigration, economic justice, climate change, and once again health care playing a starring role from the start of the two-hour event. The line-up from left to write included: Marianne Williamson. Andrew Yang.

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

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health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act. In the case of Medicare Part D, the drug benefit, Chandra said, “If you’re sick enough to fall into the donut hole, you may have higher mortality.”

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The State of the Union for Prescription Drug Prices

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This morning we don’t have a transcript of the speech ahead of the event, but one topic remains high on U.S. voters in 2020 quite like supporting Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, shown by the October 2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll. Few issues unite U.S.