Health Care Cost | Health Policy

The Verdict Is In—Price Gouging Harms People With Gout

Byadmin2 March 5, 2024

Health Care Cost

Breast Cancer Chemotherapy – Here Is What Happened When Outrageous Prices Met The Free Market
Byadmin2 September 30, 2024September 30, 2024

Nine to twelve years. That’s about how long most drug companies have to make serious money on new products before their patent protection ends. Then, generic companies enter the fray and prices, typically, plummet. Yet, two decades after coming to market, Herceptin (a drug used to treat breast and stomach cancer) was still priced at…

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The Question Isn't Whether We Are Overdiagnosing Cancer, But How Much
Byadmin May 22, 2015

Medical experts now agree that as a result of aggressive screening programs, we have an epidemic of cancer overdiagnosis in the United States. With mammograms finding tiny cancers and PSA tests discovering unpalpable prostate cancers, we are now unearthing some cancers too early for our own good. What do experts mean by “overdiagnosis,” you ask?…

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Health Care Cost | Health Policy

Should North Carolina Expand Medicaid?
Byadmin January 22, 2015

My home state of North Carolina is one of a number of states that refused to expand Medicaid, even though the Affordable Care Act stipulates that the federal government will cover the majority of expenses associated with such expansion. Here is an excellent story in the Fayetteville Observer laying out the issues: Denise Johnson works…

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Health Care Cost | Miscellaneous

Want narcotics just ask for them?
Byadmin April 2, 2014

A very disturbing new study was just published, in which physicians viewed a video of a patient with back pain asking for OxyContin. Twenty percent of docs said they would prescribe that med under that circumstance: …Too often, doctors prescribe potentially dangerous medications to patients who shouldn’t be getting them, and what they prescribe is…

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Health Care Cost | Health Policy

Here’s Why Pharmaceutical Companies Raise Their Prices So Much
Bypeter November 19, 2019January 21, 2020

Yes, I’ve ranted about healthcare prices before. On more than one occasion. But I have a new rant for you. It’s not about the high price of new drugs It’s not about a couple pharmo-bro CEOs hiking prices of generic medications by 4 or 5,000% It’s about brand name drugs already on the market, that,…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Health Care Cost

When It Comes to Cancer Screening, Are We All Nuts?
Byadmin February 17, 2015

In a recent Health Affairs article, David Asch and I wrote about how hard it can be to stop screening aggressively for things like breast and prostate cancer even when the evidence suggests we are doing more harm than good. Well, journalist Steven Petrow has a nice piece in the Washington Post looking at the…

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The Verdict Is In—Price Gouging Harms People With Gout

Breast Cancer Chemotherapy – Here Is What Happened When Outrageous Prices Met The Free Market

The Question Isn't Whether We Are Overdiagnosing Cancer, But How Much

Should North Carolina Expand Medicaid?

Want narcotics just ask for them?

Here’s Why Pharmaceutical Companies Raise Their Prices So Much

When It Comes to Cancer Screening, Are We All Nuts?

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