Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2021

Others of us feel anxiety and stress due to negative financial impacts from the shutdown economy, recovering in a K-shape where some citizens have fared pretty well (largely, those who could work-from-home and those who had investments in the stock market), and others on the low-tail of that K whose household finances eroded in 2020.

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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. 2d 327 (2020). [4] 2] While it is still relatively early in the legislative process, enactment of provisions in the current iteration of S.

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Medval Compliance Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

For example, pricing for a lumbar fusion procedure may cost significantly less in a hospital in a claimant’s local area compared to the cost for that same procedure in a major medical center (cross-referenced to the claimant’s zip code in accordance with CMS guidelines). 2020, February 24). 1] Fletcher, Terry. 2] Himmelstein, et.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

For health care privacy, Americans’ HIPAA provisions surely don’t cover personal information that informs health beyond the healthcare claim the way Europeans’ GDPR or the soon-to-be-implemented California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020 do. Much of this is due to the fact that U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

We agreed — prescription drug pricing, from the patient’s point of view, is complicated, indeed. ” The politics of prescription drug pricing will continue to be personal for health care voters, I forecast in my own scenarios looking toward not 2023 — but 2020.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2020

The Gallup-West Health Poll finds similar massive support for government negotiation specifically for COVID-19 treatment pricing, shown in the third table. adults 18 and older, in English and Spanish, in May 2020. Gallup and West Health polled 1,016 U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 26, 2019

that are likely to vote in the 2020 Presidential election are keenly interested in lowering the cost of prescription drugs, according to a survey conducted by AARP in February and March 2019. consumers to import cheaper prescription drugs from other countries. People over 50 in the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2019

In typical markets, as products mature and get mass adoption, prices fall. But then prescription drug pricing doesn’t conform with how typical markets work in theory. Know that one of these insulin products, Lilly’s Humalog, came onto the market in 1996.

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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. Constitution, giving women the right to vote. In this auspicious year for women’s voting rights, as COVID-19 emerged in the U.S. in February, women’s labor force participation rate was 58%.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 29, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: I introduced this post noting today is the first of what will be a long and deep look into prescription drug pricing in America. Federal government has proposed a sweeping set of pricing reforms for government programs with varying levels of impact and probability of being enacted.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Drug price negotiation, say by the Medicare program, is a unifying public policy in the current era of political schisms in America, based on the findings in a special Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Health Tracking Poll conducted in late September-early October 2021. appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

JULY 2, 2018

The Pew research continues to build the case that prescription drug pricing, and healthcare financial risks, will play a large role in popular culture, and in the 2018 mid-term and 2020 Presidential elections. These financial and trust-risks impact Republicans and Democrats alike.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Based on the results of the first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire, it appears more likely than ever before that the 2024 presidential election will be a rerun of 2020: Joe Biden versus Donald Trump. And health is shaping up to be a key issue.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

voters’ priorities, across political party – prescription drug prices. 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.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2019

In 2020, avoiding care will be a new normal for even more people, a fact of American health life explained in a recent survey from NRC titled, The Decade of Deferment. The biggest known-unknown for 2020 is politics on the macro/national U.S. This is why in PwC’s forecast for 2020, they expect that “regulation will trump policy.”

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Hall Render

JUNE 2, 2023

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2019

We must hasten to add that Rx CPI was driven down by the influence of generic drug prices in the past year]. Expect moderate Democrats to appeal to this potential cross-over voting bloc in the coming months as a lead-up to the Democratic primaries and eventual 2020 Presidential Election.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Another healthcare issue that should get traction in this legislative environment is prescription drug pricing. Welcome to the 2020 Presidential campaign season, all 726 left of it. Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah voters also opted into Medicaid expansion.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Lowering the costs of care, ensuring the integrity of Medicare benefits, ensuring that low-income people don’t lose Medicaid coverage, and lowering prescription drug prices gain majority support across all health care voters who say health care is extremely important in the choice for members of Congress this year.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Looking at this photo of the 2020 Democratic Party Presidential candidate debater line-up might give you a déjà vu feeling, a repeat of the night-before debate. ” Lower my drug prices. ” The story included this graph comparing drug company profits to other successful businesses operating in the U.S.,

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