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Gallup Reveals Americans’ Views on Industry Are the Lowest Since 2008 – Implications for Healthcare and Pharma

Jane Sarashon

In their latest look into consumers’ views on business in America, Gallup found that peoples’ ratings on business fell to their lowest ratings overall since 2008. Health Populi’s Hot Points : For some context, remember that 2008 was the advent of the Great Recession.

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

Health Populi

In typical markets, as products mature and get mass adoption, prices fall. But then prescription drug pricing doesn’t conform with how typical markets work in theory. In no state did the rate of diabetes decline in the ten years between 2008 and 2018.

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Guest Post – Second Circuit Rejects Manufacturer’s Plan to Share Cost of Expensive Drug with Medicare Part D Beneficiaries

Drug & Device Law

3 (2008), the court explained that “the word ‘includes,’ when used in a statute, ‘is usually a term of enlargement, and not of limitation.’” Pfizer, Inc. , Not so, said the court. Quoting the Supreme Court in Burgess v. United States , 553 U.S. 124, 131 n.3 This result, however, does clarify a few areas.