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Senate Dems reach draft deal to extend ACA premiums, lower drug costs

Healthcare Dive

JULY 29, 2022

The bill, part of a more than $300 billion package, extends enhanced ACA premiums and allows Medicare to negotiate select prescription drug prices starting in 2026.

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In addition to highlighting the Patient’s Bill of Rights, NABIP’s keynotes and general sessions will speak to similar topics being brainstormed at VIVE this week — including mental health, maternal health, pharmacy and prescription drugs (pricing, PBMs), population health, and Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

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Addressing Lives and Livelihoods with a Whole-of-Government Approach – The First Wave of Biden Health Policy

Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2021

health citizens support attacking COVID-19 through testing, federal support for vaccines, expanding telehealth, expanding the ACA, and reforming (lowering) prescription drug prices. trillion American Rescue Plan budget. Ultimately, U.S. For the details, check out the post on the Medecision site.

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The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers

Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

Take prescription drugs pushing medical trend upward. For this study, PwC conducted 21 surveys and 12 interviews in April through May 2023 among health plan actuaries covering about 100 million employer-sponsored lives and 10 million ACA marketplace members.

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Prescription Drug Pricing COVID-19 ACA Hospitals

Americans’ Top Sources of Stress are Money, Money, Money and Family

Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2019

This latter point was emphasized in the survey noting that 71% of Americans said that drug prices were too high; 78% of people agreed that the government should be permitted to negotiate/regulate prescription drug prices.

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Prescription Drug Pricing Health Insurance Doctors Governance

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

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Pricing failure, the second big waste factor, is predominantly challenged by pharmaceutical/prescription drug pricing based on this research. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) forecasts that prescription drug spending will be the fastest-growing cause of rising health spending by 2027.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

These people included the official “navigators” conceived and funded by the ACA, certified application counselors, and other people who help consumers identify health insurance plans on the marketplaces. Taken together, these four papers from Health Affairs lead to the following themes: By 2019, patients in the U.S.

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

Health Populi

MAY 14, 2018

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. The graph is the Nasdaq U.S.

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Women’s Health Policy Advice for the Next Occupant of the White House: Deal With Mental Health, the Pandemic, and Health Care Costs

Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Women, being Chief Health Officers of their Families, influencing 80% of health care decisions, well know how to connect the dots between health care costs and their household financial wellness.

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COVID-19 Health Insurance Prescription Drug Pricing ACA

Inflation and the cost of health care top U.S. voters’ issues for 2024 elections

Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 6, 2023

But the Democratic Party was recognized as being more trusted to address gun violence, prescription drug costs, abortion, the future of Medicare and Medicaid, the future of the ACA, health care affordability, access to mental health, and climate change.

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Healthcare Policies We Can Agree On: Pre-Existing Conditions, Drug Prices, and PillPack – the June 2018 KFF Health Tracking Poll

Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2018

Another unifying health care issue is prescription drug prices, which KFF has tracked for several years. Most voters across party have told previous KFF polls they believe in more government regulation or intervention on drug costs. Health Populi’s Hot Points: What most U.S.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

JUNE 2, 2023

Health Care Trends Toward Progress in Hawai‘i Hawaii health system names COO IDAHO Cyberattack forces Idaho hospital to send ambulances elsewhere Idaho Free Clinics rally for Idahoans losing Medicaid Idaho hospitals hit by cyberattack, closed clinic National grant puts $600,000 toward Payette community’s health care needs Idaho Statewide HIE Changes (..)

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Growing Support for Medicare for All – But Do People Really Understand What It Means?

Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2019

Still, the data comes as former Vice President Joe Biden — who has spurned a single-payer system in favor of expanding the ACA with a public option — continues holding tight to his 13-point advantage over Sen. Here’s another Medicare myth uncovered: 1 in 4 Americans think Medicare is part of the ACA/Obamacare.

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Having Health Insurance Is a Social Determinant of Health: the implications of growing uninsured in the U.S.

Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

And there’s very little bidding on drugs.” ” Remember that prescription drug spending continues to hover around one-tenth of overall U.S. A move to re-align prescription drug prices will be welcomed across the political spectrum as Big Pharma continues to take the bulk of the blame for rising healthcare costs.

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Healthcare and the F-Word: Health Politics Rank High on November 6, 2018

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In this case, I feel it’s important to capture the Zeitgeist of the Republican Party’s commitment to cutting down the ACA since President Trump took office in January 2017. In my 11 years of writing every one of over 2,000 Health Populi posts on this blog, I have never, ever mentioned the “f-word” here.

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Americans’ Financial Anxiety Ties to Personal Cash Flow and Health Care

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].

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Healthcare Is Local: Channeling Tip O’Neill in the 2018 Midterm Election Results

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Another healthcare issue that should get traction in this legislative environment is prescription drug pricing. In these midterms, governors flipped from Republican to Democrat in Kansas, Maine and Wisconsin, all of whom promised to expand Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act.

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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

Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

” Lower my drug prices. The cover theme of the May 2019 AARP Bulletin focused on “the fight to lower prescription drug prices,” saying that, “medicine can be made more affordable. Here’s how the battle is being fought…and how it can be won.”

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Health Care Compliance Brief

Senate Dems reach draft deal to extend ACA premiums, lower drug costs

A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

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Addressing Lives and Livelihoods with a Whole-of-Government Approach – The First Wave of Biden Health Policy

The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers

Americans’ Top Sources of Stress are Money, Money, Money and Family

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

Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

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

Women’s Health Policy Advice for the Next Occupant of the White House: Deal With Mental Health, the Pandemic, and Health Care Costs

Inflation and the cost of health care top U.S. voters’ issues for 2024 elections

Healthcare Policies We Can Agree On: Pre-Existing Conditions, Drug Prices, and PillPack – the June 2018 KFF Health Tracking Poll

Health Provider News

Growing Support for Medicare for All – But Do People Really Understand What It Means?

Having Health Insurance Is a Social Determinant of Health: the implications of growing uninsured in the U.S.

Healthcare and the F-Word: Health Politics Rank High on November 6, 2018

Americans’ Financial Anxiety Ties to Personal Cash Flow and Health Care

Healthcare Is Local: Channeling Tip O’Neill in the 2018 Midterm Election Results

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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