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Administration’s radical actions on drug pricing

By Albert DiPiero MD, MPH Everyone is going after a common enemy these days: Big Pharma and high drug prices. The House and Senate have...

The Trump administration surprises again. Amid the chaos and backtracking and incoherence, in healthcare at least the administration...

The good news is that the rate of growth in healthcare spending has slowed in 2017 to 3.9% per year, compared to a 4.8% jump in 2016. But...

Many areas of the US are anticipating a pleasurable change for 2019: the price of health insurance is dropping and the choice of plans...

Listening to the rhetoric on the street, it sounds like employers have reached their limit and are ready to take drastic action to get...

The Trump administration is moving forward with its proposal to force drug makers to reveal the list price of their drugs in consumer...

Health insurance deductibles have gone up 200% in the last decade, rising eight times faster than wages. Any way you look at it, the...

Anyone who leads or manages a business that relies on employees to deliver services including healthcare, retail, restaurants, etc is...

Here is another example of how barriers limit competition and limit transparency, to the benefit of legacy players in healthcare. The...

In an outbreak of bipartisanship, senators have unveiled draft legislation meant to protect consumers from unexpected massive medical...

In his recent Op-Ed contribution [Blame Emergency Rooms for the Out-of-Control Cost of Healthcare. September 5, 2018], Dr. Glenn Melnick...

In his recent Op-Ed contribution, [Blame Emergency Rooms for the Out-of-Control Cost of Health Care, New York Times, September 5, 2018]...

If you buy individual health insurance - as opposed to getting insurance through your employer - you may be in a real jam. The individual...

Zoom didn't comment on this story and we won't either. - Sanders DiPiero Zoom+ Makes Pitch That Would Expand Its Service to Medicaid...

As the nation grapples with ways to lower healthcare costs, access to generics plays a large role in saving patients, and the health...

The WSJ reports that healthcare spending in the U.S. will soon reach 20% of GDP, a significantly higher proportion than any other major...

LAST MONTH we learned again that our national health care system is so beyond broken that it will require not one, but three billionaires...

Think tank estimates "Medicare for All" at $32 trillion over decade. Others challenge the projection. Worth scanning these two stories...

The economic hardship people suffer when they get sick in the U.S. Media, academic, policymakers continue to avoid root issue of the cost...

Unintentionally humorous article about delusional hospitals who hire consultants to tell them become customer obsessed. - Sanders DiPiero...