Pharmaceutical cost resources
There are hundreds of recent articles that are important stories on U.S. health care and illustrate the abuses of our health care system. Most of the articles are behind paywalls at New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg.com and numerous other sources. The Imperative Foundation would like to provide free links to such articles, including those below, but it is expensive to do so. At present, we can only provide the titles, general headlines, and links to the articles.
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March 22, 2023 – Biden Plan to Cut Billions in Medicare Fraud Ignites Lobbying Frenzy
March 22, 2023 – Biden Plan to Cut Billions in Medicare Fraud Ignites Lobbying Frenzy The Biden administration has proposed changes to how it would pay private Medicare Advantage plans. The change in payment formulas is an effort, Biden administration officials say, to tackle widespread abuses and fraud in the
January 28, 2023, How a Drug Company Made $114 Billion by Gaming the U.S. Patent System
January 28, 2023, How a Drug Company Made $114 Billion by Gaming the U.S. Patent System AbbVie for years delayed competition for its blockbuster drug Humira, at the expense of patients and taxpayers. The key patent on the best-selling anti-inflammatory medication, used to treat conditions like arthritis, was expiring at
January 25, 2023, A Farmer Secretly Paid for His Neighbors’ Prescriptions for Years
January 25, 2023, A Farmer Secretly Paid for His Neighbors’ Prescriptions for Years Hody Childress brought cash every month to a pharmacist in Alabama, asking her to use it to help people buy medicine. The town learned of the arrangement only after his death. From the New York Times: A
October 8, 2022, The Cash Monster Was Insatiable’: How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions
October 8, 2022, The Cash Monster Was Insatiable’: How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions By next year, half of Medicare beneficiaries will have a private Medicare Advantage plan. Most large insurers in the program have been accused in court of fraud. Each of the strategies — which were described by
October 24, 2020, The Importance of Universal Health Care in Improving Our Nation’s Response to Pandemics and Health Disparities
October 24, 2020, The Importance of Universal Health Care in Improving Our Nation’s Response to Pandemics and Health Disparities The COVID pandemic adds a new sense of urgency to establish a universal health care system in the United States. Our current system is inequitable, does not adequately cover vulnerable groups,
August 19, 2020, Reforming Health Care: The Single System Solution
August 19, 2020, Reforming Health Care: The Single System Solution The flaws of the U.S. health care system have been exposed and exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. This paper posits three underlying causes of our persistent poor performance: flawed assumptions; inadequate information; and fragmented delivery, payment, and insurance systems that