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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

Health Populi

At the end of this day, something Muna Bhanji, an advisor to biopharmaceutical developers who spent over 30 years of her career with Merck, noted: no advances toward value-based care will happen without a sense of partnership, requiring aligned incentives across the health/care ecosystem.

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The Pharma Industry Hits Bottom of Consumers’ Industry Rankings, and Healthcare Is Only Marginally Higher on the List

Health Populi

Gallup notes that Americans are over two times more likely to rank the pharmaceutical industry negatively (58%) as positively (27%). This segment in the Gallup poll would include hospitals and health insurance. professions, explained here in Health Populi ). “The pharmaceutical industry’s U.S.