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Medicare to cover CAR-T. Italians use payment at results. The Navy introduces value-based care. Democrats’ plans to limit drug prices. Using contingent valuation to weight quality measures. Public health spending increases GDP.
Category: Current Events
Where do the Democratic Presidential candidates stand on health care?
In short, most of them want to expand government payment for and control of health care in the United States. Looking at the top 10 candidates (Biden, Sanders, Warren, Harris, Buttigieg, O’Rourke, Booker, Klobuchar, Yang, Castro, Gabbard) according to recent polls captured on 538, I staked out the candidates current positions on reforming the health…
End of week links
Understanding insurance value. Are most supercentarians frauds? Opioid deaths in Scotland. How donuts fueled the American Dream in LA. Explaining the pharmacy gag rule.
Midweek Links
Opioid deaths start to fall. Drone drug delivery. Observatory of economic complexity. In favor of the Cadillac tax? The impact of decision fatigue.
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How accurate are RVUs? Capturing the patient voice. Tools for physicians to find patient copays for drugs. New generic EpiPen hits the market. An honest man. Is Mechanical Turk trustworthy for surveys?
Experts debate Trump drug pricing policies
What will Trump’s “favored nation” policy do to drug prices and innovation? How will 340B reforms affect the price hospitals charge for drugs? Myself and my colleague Jim Baumgardner weigh in with our thoughts in an article in FormularyWatch. “US drug prices will certainly fall. However, prices outside the US will rise,” Jason Shafrin, PhD,…
Mid-week links
Netflix model pricing for HCV drugs in Louisiana. Does “genetic nurture” cause obesity among siblings? New head of the CEA. Will health departments allow kids who don’t get a chickenpox vaccine to go to private school? “…many preferred to avoid viewing comparative clinical outcomes, particularly survival” I’m generally in favor of increased use of NPs,…
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Are Nordic countries moving to private health care? A checklist for value assessment of gene therapies. The importance of loss aversion. Problem first, not solution backward. Is LA the next Silicon Valley?
Trump Executive Order to Mandate Price Transparency for Providers
As the N.Y. Times reports, more transparency is coming to provider prices. The White House released an executive order Monday afternoon intended to require insurance companies, doctors and hospitals to give patients more information about precisely what their care will cost before they get it. More transparency is generally good and surprise billing for out-of-network costs has been a major…
Friday Links
NHS incentives to use AI. The gene therapy pipeline. What is a “healthcare cost cure”? Mental illness and preference inconsistency. Monitoring your driving habits.