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Cheaper drug trials would lower prices: FDA chief
15 September 2017 - Decreasing the time and cost it takes to develop a drug would lower drug prices, FDA ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Sep 2017
Greg Hunt flags 'dramatic' reductions in private health insurance prices
15 September 2017 - The Turnbull government wants "dramatic reductions" in private health insurance price rises over the next three ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Sep 2017
Generic chemo is too expensive to help curb cancer spending, study says
12 September 2017 - The advent of immuno-oncology treatments like checkpoint inhibitors and personalised CAR-T engineered immune cells has intensified ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Sep 2017
Exodus from private health care saves $1bn but states carry can
13 September 2017 - The private health insurance exodus is delivering more than $1 billion in unanticipated rebate savings for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Sep 2017
Health insurers demand reforms to keep premium increases low
11September 2017 - Australia’s health insurance industry has warned Health Minister Greg Hunt that if he wants consumers to have ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Sep 2017
’It’s about private healthcare, not just health insurance’
11 September 2017 - An edited transcript of a private health care insurance roundtable hosted by The Australian senior business ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Sep 2017
From last to first - could the U.S. health care system become the best in the world?
7 September 2017 - Many Americans believe that the United States has the best health care system in the world, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Sep 2017
Cancer survivors more likely to skip drugs due to cost
6 September 2017 - The percentage of U.S. adults under age 65 who skip essential prescription drugs because of price ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Sep 2017
Health insurers blamed for rising health care costs
4 September 2017 - Australians blame health insurers for rising costs in the nation’s health care system, new consumer research ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Aug 2017
Public opinion about the future of the Affordable Care Act
31 August 2017 - In the early hours of Friday, July 28, the U.S. Senate closed debate on repealing and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Aug 2017
PCSK9 inhibitors and the choice between innovation, efficiency, and affordability
22 August 2017 - Cardiovascular medicine is struggling with the new proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 inhibitor drugs for lowering low-density ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Aug 2017
Debate: Are doctors or insurers to blame for health insurance price hikes?
23 August 2017 - The peak body for the private health insurance industry, Private Healthcare Australia (PHA), has been warning ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2017
Turnbull struggles to deal with funding the nation’s soaring health care demands
21 August 2017 - The Turnbull government will almost reach its cap on hospital funding in the first year of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2017
Private health insurance not 'junk': NIB boss rejects doctors' 'paternalistic' proposal
21 August 2017 - Private health insurer NIB has rejected accusations that some policies are "junk" insurance that fail to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2017
Private health insurance 'junk' policies ripping Australians off, AMA says
21 August 2017 - Australian doctors have declared private medicine is "under siege", and are pushing the Federal Government to ...