Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

If you live in greater Atlanta, you’re in luck: prescription medicines are priced about 20% lower than national average there, similarly in Dallas, Houston and Denver. We agreed — prescription drug pricing, from the patient’s point of view, is complicated, indeed.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

In my book HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen, I detail the health microeconomics which explain that low return. 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.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

While our health care trade press re-iterates Uwe Reinhardt’s and Gerard Anderson’s observation that, “It’s the prices, stupid” from back in 2003, closer to peoples’ homes and real lives, Consumer Reports and TIME magazine also try and support Americans’ health consumer muscle/brain) development and ethos.

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Health Populi

APRIL 26, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The third chart illustrates that pharma pricing is a unifying force across older voters across the three political parties. consumers to import cheaper prescription drugs from other countries. While deep understanding of how U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2019

is prescription drug prices — that they’re too high, that the Federal government should negotiate to lower costs for Medicare enrollees, and that out-of-pocket costs for drugs should be limited. The biggest culprit/contributor to prescription drug prices? consumers were asked.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2019

With the emergence of six-to-seven figure specialty drugs coming out of the Rx pipeline into commerce, we can expect growing financial toxicity as a side effect of these therapies, and evolving financial services offered to patients to pay, say, on an installment plan as Bluebird Therapeutics has offered (specifically, $1.78

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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]. As a forecaster, I’m watching this trend as part of my crystal ball-thinking as health consumers morph to health citizens — the theme of my book, HealthConsuming. .

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 25, 2024

” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in its third edition. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?”

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