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Category: Cost of Healthcare

The War on Drugs that Save Lives and Cure Diseases

Posted on January 24, 2023January 24, 2023 by John C. Goodman

About 85% of new medicines launched between 2012 and 2021 were available in the U.S., compared to 61% in Germany, 59% in the U.K. and 52% in France and Italy. Bluebird bio in 2021 said it was unwinding operations in Europe and withdrawing gene therapies for rare diseases, citing the challenges of “achieving appropriate value…

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Friday Links

Posted on January 20, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Reason (magazine) investigation: CDC used Facebook to silence Covid dissent.
  • More than 1,000 nursing homes reached a 75% infection rate during the Covid pandemic.
  • For: more off label uses of existing drugs.
  • IRA bill is already affecting drug development – negatively.
  • What it will cost to attend this year’s Super Bowl game: almost $9,000.
  • The Manchin/Capito Trust Act would force Congress to do what it doesn’t want to do: Tackle our unfunded entitlement liabilities.
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Direct Primary Care and other Direct Pay Practice Models on the Rise

Posted on January 20, 2023January 19, 2023 by Devon Herrick

An article in the Denver Post claims that more of the city’s physicians are converting their practices to direct primary care (DPC).

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Thursday Links

Posted on January 12, 2023January 12, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Are family leave policies keeping women’s wages down?
  • Study: Medicare Advantage is substantially better than traditional Medicare for diabetes.
  • GOP House to investigate federal funding of gain-of-function research.
  • Asian-Americans have a life expectancy of 85.7, compared to the US average of 79.1. (“I suspect that highly educated Asian Americans have a life expectancy that is absolutely off the charts.”)
  • Why was there a surge of traffic deaths in the first year of the pandemic?
  • Why is the FDA hostile to personalized tests?
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