Hall Render

JUNE 23, 2023

voters could clamp down on pay for hospital executives California health system uses philanthropists’ gifts to launch innovation fund Probe into California hospital unearths patient safety concerns Wrong family notified after man dies at SF hospital California Gov.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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. The World Health Organization called for “prescribing” clean air for the world’s children, 90% of whom were breathing toxic air in 2018.

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Jane Sarashon

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

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. Peoples’ highest ratings of industry in American occurred in 2017 when nearly 50% of people gave business a very or somewhat positive grade.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

The authors note that “consumer-driven” health care is, “associated with neoliberal efforts to emphasize market factors in health reform,” de-emphasizing government regulation and financing. This concept can be potentially harmful, they believe, assuming that health care is a traditional market.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As Amazon and other entrants apply their innovative approaches and technologies into American healthcare, consumers are expecting more streamlining, convenience, and lower (and transparent) prices. The legacy healthcare system — hospitals, insurance companies, and pharma — haven’t delivered on that expectation.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2018

In the past year, it’s been pricing, not volume, that’s drive medicines price growth in America, as I explained here in Health Populi. A new report from The Commonwealth Fund was published today as I was uploading this post about healthcare prices in the U.S. continuing to drive up healthcare spending.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2020

consumers have been supportive of government negotiation for drug pricing since well before the COVID-19 pandemic. The Gallup-West Health Poll finds similar massive support for government negotiation specifically for COVID-19 treatment pricing, shown in the third table. bn to $32.8 bn to $9.9 bn for Medicaid.

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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.

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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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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Sanders, noting his call for big new government benefits like universal health care through Medicare for All and free college tuition. Senator Harris, too, mentioned government benefits like free college and Medicare for All as her health plan preference. Lester Holt began with Sen. “We don’t have a health care system in the U.S.

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Drug & Device Law

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The drug at issue is the only FDA-approved pharmaceutical treatment for ATTR-CM (although off-label use of other drugs, and organ transplant, are sometimes used as treatments). Although the drug is not a “cure,” it does “slow[] the decline in quality of life, reduces hospitalization rates, and typically helps patients live longer.”

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