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Make new chemo drugs more accessible by passing the Cancer Drug Coverage Parity Act
26 March 2018 - The American Cancer Society estimates that 1.7 million Americans will be newly diagnosed with cancer this ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Mar 2018
Young Canadians feeling the pinch of sky-high prescription drug prices
26 March 2018 - Use of Ontario’s public drug program has increased three fold since 2000, which suggests that young ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Mar 2018
Doctors name and shame health insurers as profits and complaints soar
26 March 2018 - Doctors have exposed the best and worst private health insurers in a new report card that ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Mar 2018
Resolving the “cost-effective but unaffordable” paradox: estimating the health opportunity costs of non-marginal budget impacts
22 March 2018 - Considering whether or not a proposed investment (an intervention, technology, or program of care) is affordable is ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Mar 2018
Affordability challenges to value-based pricing: mass diseases, orphan diseases, and cures
22 March 2018 - Danzon has set out to analyse how value-based pricing, which grounds the price paid for pharmaceuticals ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Mar 2018
Affordability of new technologies: the next frontier
22 March 2018 - Affordability, or rather a lack of it, has become a new buzzword in health policy. It is ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Mar 2018
Getting sick can be really expensive, even for the insured
22 March 2018 - Beyond medical costs, a trip to the hospital can mean a permanent reduction in income for many ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Mar 2018
Case of the $21 million Medicaid patient shows how drug prices soar for rare diseases
5 March 2018 - The child is well-known in the halls where state bureaucrats oversee healthcare for millions of Californians ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Mar 2018
NHS prescription charges are rising – here’s how to keep them down
3 March 2016 - Here’s what you need to know about the increase – and how to get cheaper everyday medicines. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Mar 2018
Will personalised medicine mean higher costs for consumers?
1 March 2018 - Personalised medicine and treatments for rare diseases – many of which are extraordinarily expensive – are ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Feb 2018
Affordable Pharmacare the goal of study launched in federal budget
28 February 2018 - Advisory panel tasked with bringing relief to Canadians who pay some of the highest prices for prescription ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Feb 2018
Pharmacare won't be free for all Canadians, Bill Morneau says
28 February 2018 - Finance minister hints 'fiscally responsible' plan won't be universal. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Feb 2018
States look to lower drug costs, consider Canadian imports
11 February 2018 - Lawmakers in more than two-thirds of the states are considering ways to reduce prescription drug costs, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Feb 2018
Almost 1 million Canadians give up food, heat to afford prescriptions: study
13 February 2018 - 968,000 people skimped on necessities to pay for their medicine in 2016, researchers find. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Feb 2018
More Australians dispose of health insurance because of rising premiums
14 February 2018 - More than 12,000 Australians ditched their hospital cover in the three months to last December, new ...