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Thinking Pharma on a Friday: Europe’s Big Reforms for a Health Union & the U.S. 50-State Fragments

Health Populi

I’ll remind all of us that a newly-elected President Trump talked about pharma companies quite critically in TIME magazine’s coverage which I discussed here in Health Populi in December 2016. Presidential and Congressional campaign promises for more than two decades. health citizen-consumers.

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The United States of Diabetes: a $1,240 Tax on Every American

Health Populi

The study analyzed medical claims for millions of patients, both commercially insured and enrolled in Medicare. As pharma industry execs testify this week on Capitol Hill about how prescription drugs get priced and distributed, the overwhelming majority of Americans believe that drug prices are too high and require government regulation.

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Health Care Real Estate Briefing – January 24, 2022

Hall Render

Home health demand is driven by limited hospital resources, growth in telehealth and changes in Medicare policy per HealthPayerIntelligence. The additional transfer taxes will be used to support the construction of affordable housing as housing and health care are linked according to the hospital per Commonwealth Magazine.

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Private Equity: Investigation and Enforcement

Med Law Blog

In the article entitled “The Death of Hahnemann Hospital” published in the New Yorker magazine in May 2021. Howell, Constantine Yannelis and Abhinav Gupta positing that their research shows that “PE ownership increases short term mortality of Medicare patients by 10%, in nursing homes”.

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Universal Health Care and Financial Inclusion – Not Mutually Exclusive

Health Populi

Two weeks in a row, The Economist , the news magazine headquartered in London, included two special reports stapled into the middle of the magazines. Universal health care was covered in a section on 28 April 2018, and coverage on financial inclusion was bundled into the 5th May edition.

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Rx 2018: A New Era of Specialty Drugs, Telehealth, Mobile Apps and Value, IQVIA Reports

Health Populi

President Trump made clear on the campaign trail and in his interview with TIME magazine as Person of the Year that pharmaceutical companies’ pricing needed to be reined in using government pressure.

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Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

Health Populi

To optimize communication strategies for attracting Medicare Advantage enrollment , a Mid-Atlantic health plan studied the media and social consumption patterns for older people, learning that the target population was more tech-savvy than presumed. This would break down a barrier for people living in food and/or pharmacy deserts.