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Self-Care is Healthcare for Everyday People

Health Populi

Note the new alliance between Walmart and Anthem to channel OTC meds to Medicare Advantage members). I caught up with some magazine reading, noting a Prudential ad marketing financial wellness. The consumer also has complex self-care needs, dealing with aging, chronic conditions, nutrition demands, and resilience.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

Fortune magazine named Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2017 for the 12th consecutive year; the year before, Working Mother magazine ranked the health system among the 100 best companies for working mothers. The health system has more than 10,600 employees and 7,000 volunteers.

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Prescription Drugs: From Costs and Bad Reputation to Civica Rx and Amazon to the Rescue

Health Populi

health consumers believe that Medicare should be allowed to negotiate with drug companies to fetch lower prices for prescription drugs, and that more drugs should switch to generic when possible. consumers have long-ranked the pharmaceutical industry relatively low, but above car salespeople and the Federal government.

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Rx 2018: A New Era of Specialty Drugs, Telehealth, Mobile Apps and Value, IQVIA Reports

Health Populi

The report pointed especially to hospital and pharmaceutical prices. President Trump made clear on the campaign trail and in his interview with TIME magazine as Person of the Year that pharmaceutical companies’ pricing needed to be reined in using government pressure.

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The United States of Diabetes: a $1,240 Tax on Every American

Health Populi

Pharmaceutical company executives are testifying in the U.S. The study analyzed medical claims for millions of patients, both commercially insured and enrolled in Medicare. Here’s a link to his interview with TIME magazine when he said, just days before taking his U.S. Congress this week on the topic of prescription drug costs.

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

Health Populi

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. Presidential and Congressional campaign promises for more than two decades.