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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.

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Lower Prescription Drug Prices – A Tri-Partisan Call Across America

Health Populi

voters, across the three-party landscape, agree on two healthcare issues this year: coverage of pre-existing conditions, and lowering the consumer-facing costs of prescription drugs. This is the tactic that most Americans say could lower prescription drug prices. There’s growing evidence that a majority of U.S.

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Americans Across Political Party Worry About Prescription Drug Prices – Especially to Deal with COVID-19

Health Populi

By demographics, more women than men are concerned about rising costs for the three health care spending categories the survey studied: drug prices, insurance premiums, and healthcare costs (medical care services spending). Across-the-board, nonwhites are more concerned than whites on the three spending categories, as well.

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

Health Populi

This category comprised roughly one-third of the total waste in U.S. The second largest waste component was pricing failure, associated with medication pricing failure (the largest piece of three components), payer-based health services pricing failure, and lab and ambulatory pricing. medical spending. patients).

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The Reputation of Pharma Among U.S. Consumers Is Tied More to Pricing Than to Innovation

Health Populi

But the sticker shock for certain branded drugs off-formulary has moved this issue to the top of U.S. point to prescription drugs as the highest spend category in U.S. We capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month for seniors on Medicare. voters’ minds. Over one in three people in the U.S. Not anymore.

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The Health Consumer in 2024 – The Health Populi TrendCast

Jane Sarashon

Professor Galloway pointed out in his 2024 predictions the sheer scale that this new drug category could have on over 100 million Americans alone. A recent poll from Toluna found that 30% of people aware of prescription weight-loss drugs would want to use them. What GPT is to the media, GLP-1 will be to the real economy.”

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Spending on Medicines In and Post-COVID Say a Lot About Patients and Larger Healthcare Trends – an IQVIA Update

Health Populi

The circle-pie chart from IQVIA Institute’s report details different categories’ share of OTC spending, with the largest dollars spent by consumers on eye care, urinary and reproductive, circulatory, calming/sleep/mood, and herbal and homeopathic remedies. As such, the debate on prescription drug pricing in the U.S.