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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

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

Health Populi

This post updates my initial thoughts on the deal, given the morphing US healthcare market on both the traditional health services front and fast-evolving retail health environment. The nation’s largest retail pharmacy chain signed a deal to combine with one of the top three health insurance companies.

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The State of the Union for Prescription Drug Prices

Health Populi

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.