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.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

These people included the official “navigators” conceived and funded by the ACA, certified application counselors, and other people who help consumers identify health insurance plans on the marketplaces. Taken together, these four papers from Health Affairs lead to the following themes: By 2019, patients in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Women, being Chief Health Officers of their Families, influencing 80% of health care decisions, well know how to connect the dots between health care costs and their household financial wellness.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2018

Another unifying health care issue is prescription drug prices, which KFF has tracked for several years. Most voters across party have told previous KFF polls they believe in more government regulation or intervention on drug costs. Health Populi’s Hot Points: What most U.S.

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Hall Render

JUNE 2, 2023

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2019

Still, the data comes as former Vice President Joe Biden — who has spurned a single-payer system in favor of expanding the ACA with a public option — continues holding tight to his 13-point advantage over Sen. Here’s another Medicare myth uncovered: 1 in 4 Americans think Medicare is part of the ACA/Obamacare.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2023

But the Democratic Party was recognized as being more trusted to address gun violence, prescription drug costs, abortion, the future of Medicare and Medicaid, the future of the ACA, health care affordability, access to mental health, and climate change.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

And there’s very little bidding on drugs.” ” Remember that prescription drug spending continues to hover around one-tenth of overall U.S. A move to re-align prescription drug prices will be welcomed across the political spectrum as Big Pharma continues to take the bulk of the blame for rising healthcare costs.

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Jane Sarashon

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

consumer dissatisfaction with drug prices — across political party identification. insured consumers’ perspectives on prescription drug pricing and the role of PBMs (pharmacy benefit managers). 9 in 10 insured Americans felt that prescriptions are more expensive in the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

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. In my 11 years of writing every one of over 2,000 Health Populi posts on this blog, I have never, ever mentioned the “f-word” here.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Another healthcare issue that should get traction in this legislative environment is prescription drug pricing. In these midterms, governors flipped from Republican to Democrat in Kansas, Maine and Wisconsin, all of whom promised to expand Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act.

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2019

We must hasten to add that Rx CPI was driven down by the influence of generic drug prices in the past year].

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

” Lower my drug prices. The cover theme of the May 2019 AARP Bulletin focused on “the fight to lower prescription drug prices,” saying that, “medicine can be made more affordable. Here’s how the battle is being fought…and how it can be won.”

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