Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2020

Nine in ten Americans is concerned about the price of prescription drugs in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Gallup and West Health found in their survey on the cost of healthcare, published today. adults 18 and older, in English and Spanish, in May 2020. bn for Medicaid. 84% of Republicans.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Pricing failure, with waste ranging $231 bn – $241 bn. Fraud and abuse, waste between $59 bn and $84 bn; and, Administrative complexity, wasting about $266 bn each year. Pricing failure, the second big waste factor, is predominantly challenged by pharmaceutical/prescription drug pricing based on this research.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2020

2020 marked the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. ages 22 to 45 years old in September 2020. voters were driven to the polls in the 2018 mid-term elections due to concerns about health care. Constitution, giving women the right to vote. in February, women’s labor force participation rate was 58%.

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Health Law Advisor

MAY 22, 2023

1339) reflects the overarching legislative push by members from both sides of the aisle and chambers of Congress to address drug pricing issues through federal fixes to the PBM framework. Other provisions in the legislation are similar to policy proposals to regulate PBM activity in other payor markets, such as Medicaid.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

And here’s the notorious tweet about her use of the f-word, and the link to the article in the Tucson Weekly which reported on the day talked about McSally’s enthusiasm for cutting down the Affordable Care Act with her Republican colleagues in the House. The final vote was 217-213. What a difference a year makes.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

While we have a divided government via split legislature, one winner in the 2018 midterm outcome is Medicaid. As I wrote about yesterday (about learning from Governor Kasich), people keen on healthcare should pay attention to the states, which are laboratories for health reform.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

the annual review of prescription drug supply, demand and Rx pricing dynamics from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science. In a call with analysts this week in which I participated, Murray Aitken discussed the report which looks back at 2018 and forward to 2023 with scenarios about what the U.S. was $344 billion, a 4.5%

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