Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2019

But then prescription drug pricing doesn’t conform with how typical markets work in theory. The top line of this study is that the economic burden of diabetes overall was $404 billion in 2017. The diabetes economy equated to $1,240 for every American in 2017. bn for undiagnosed diabetes, $43.4

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

Medicines treating hypertension experienced the largest absolute growth in number of scripts, up 48 million in 2018 over 2017; this increase was driven by an aging population and expanded guidelines in place for the treatment of high blood pressure. In 2017, nearly 60% of new therapy starts were for the Flucelvax Quadrivalent flu vaccine.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

2017 – Digital Healthcare at the Inflection Point, a la Mary Meeker. prices are greater than in fellow OECD nations: wages are higher for specialist physicians, prices for digital imaging greater, and of course prescription drug prices the highest in the world. Much of this is due to the fact that U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Even seemingly popular plan ideas like prescription drug pricing and coverage for pre-existing conditions can’t get traction in Congress or through the White House’s executive pen. In May 2017, AMIA called for the same , and the issue is getting the traction it merits. such as in the U.K.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

“Let’s get this thing f-ing done,” Martha McSally passionately asserted on May 4, 2017. In this case, I feel it’s important to capture the Zeitgeist of the Republican Party’s commitment to cutting down the ACA since President Trump took office in January 2017. Paul Ryan said, on the floor of the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

I wrote this post on the deal as an inflection point in American healthcare on 3rd December 2017 when CVS and Aetna announced their marriage intentions. By far, the most serious issues facing American healthcare consumers were the lack of (1) affordable care, (2) affordable insurance, and (3) affordable drugs, shown in the bar chart.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

by the fourth quarter of 2017, up 1.3 2017 reversed advancements in health insurance coverage increases since the advent of the Affordable Care Act, and for the first time since 2014 no states’ uninsured rates fell. And there’s very little bidding on drugs.” uninsurance rate rose to 12.2%

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2019

Gallup’s top-line: while the economy is “the greatest in the history of America” in the words of President Trump, most Americans’ anxious feelings about their home economics have not improved much since he moved into the White House in January 2017.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2018

This is what happened to pharma stock prices on Friday after President Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar outlined their new policies focusing on prescription drug prices. The graph is the Nasdaq U.S. Foreign governments’ “free-riding” Americans’ investment in innovation.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Trump is vowing — again — to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which is even more popular than it was when Republicans failed to muster the congressional votes to kill it in 2017. And both are expected to highlight efforts to rein in the cost of prescription drugs. And health is shaping up to be a key issue.

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