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Health Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer

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Inpatient costs fell just below the prescription drug share of spending per person in the U.S. between 2017 and 2021. For prices , it was inpatient costs that rose most cumulatively between 2017 and 2021, by 28%, versus 17% for prescription drugs, 9% for outpatient and 7% for professional services.

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Gallup Reveals Americans’ Views on Industry Are the Lowest Since 2008 – Implications for Healthcare and Pharma

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Peoples’ highest ratings of industry in American occurred in 2017 when nearly 50% of people gave business a very or somewhat positive grade. The year-on-year decline from 2021 find oil and gas at the lowest level of positivity, advertising/PR, legal, the Federal government, and pharma at the bottom of the ratings.

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The 2020 Social Determinants of Health: Connectivity, Art, Air and Love

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Even seemingly popular plan ideas like prescription drug pricing and coverage for pre-existing conditions can’t get traction in Congress or through the White House’s executive pen. In May 2017, AMIA called for the same , and the issue is getting the traction it merits. such as in the U.K.

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The Gap Between the Trump Administration’s Promise of Reducing Rx Costs for Consumers and What People Really Want

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This is what happened to pharma stock prices on Friday after President Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar outlined their new policies focusing on prescription drug prices. Seniors and government programs over-paying for drugs. The graph is the Nasdaq U.S.

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CVS + Aetna: Inflection Point in US Healthcare, Merger Approved Update

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I wrote this post on the deal as an inflection point in American healthcare on 3rd December 2017 when CVS and Aetna announced their marriage intentions. By far, the most serious issues facing American healthcare consumers were the lack of (1) affordable care, (2) affordable insurance, and (3) affordable drugs, shown in the bar chart.

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Lower Prescription Drug Prices – A Tri-Partisan Call Across America

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voters, across the three-party landscape, agree on two healthcare issues this year: coverage of pre-existing conditions, and lowering the consumer-facing costs of prescription drugs. This is the tactic that most Americans say could lower prescription drug prices. There’s growing evidence that a majority of U.S.

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

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But then prescription drug pricing doesn’t conform with how typical markets work in theory. The top line of this study is that the economic burden of diabetes overall was $404 billion in 2017. The diabetes economy equated to $1,240 for every American in 2017. bn for undiagnosed diabetes, $43.4