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RSS FeedPosted by Michael Wonder on 04 Oct 2022
In the costly US health care market, Mark Cuban’s company has a plan to reduce prescription drug costs
4 October 2022 - A recent poll shows that most Americans say the country’s health care system is handled poorly, and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Sep 2022
Doctors, patients protest at plans to cap medicine prices
23 September 2022 - Doctors, pharmacists and patients organisations are angry about government plans to cut spending on medicine, which ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Sep 2022
Growing financial burden from high-cost targeted oral anti-cancer medicines among Medicare beneficiaries with cancer
13 September 2022 - The rapidly rising costs of targeted oral anti-cancer medicines raise concerns over their affordability. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Sep 2022
Your money or your life? Cancer’s crushing cost
10 September 2022 - The first thing many cancer patients see when they arrive at the oncology ward is the EFTPOS ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Sep 2022
Cheaper scripts for millions
7 September 2022 - For the first time in its 75 year history, the maximum cost of general scripts under ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Sep 2022
The CEO of GoodRx doesn’t think mail order pharmacies are the ‘right answer’ to lowering prescription drug prices
2 September 2022 - Cartoonishly high hospital bills, overpriced prescription drugs, crowdsourcing for medical treatments—these are all features of the US ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Aug 2022
Governor Ron DeSantis announces lawsuit against Biden Administration’s reckless delay of Canadian Prescription Drug Importation Program
31 August 2022 - Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced a lawsuit against the US FDA in response to their unreasonable delay ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Aug 2022
Can the Inflation Reduction Act bring down drug prices?
30 August 2022 - The legislation signed by President Joe Biden on August 16 empowers Medicare to negotiate the prices of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Aug 2022
The failed promise of the US’s Inflation Reduction Act for patients with diabetes
25 August 2022 - Five years ago, I wrote an article for The BMJ describing the struggles I’ve experienced in trying ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Aug 2022
Kidney patients cite insurance and payment issues as critical barriers to FDA approved care innovations
15 August 2022 - Patients and taxpayers forced to absorb preventable costs. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Aug 2022
Newly launched US drugs head toward record high prices in 2022
15 August 2022 - Drugmakers are launching new medicines at record high prices this year, a Reuters analysis has found, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Aug 2022
A doctor says a patient saved over $1,000 a month by ordering prescriptions through Mark Cuban’s online pharmacy
14 August 2022 - Deena Kishawi, an OB-GYN resident physician in Chicago, was reviewing the medication of one of her patients ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Aug 2022
Economic cost and sustainability of oral therapies in precision oncology
12 August 2022 - Precision oncology promises improved outcomes but the cost effectiveness and accessibility of targeted therapies is debatable. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2022
Australians forced to pay for methadone and other drugs to get off addictive PBS medication
7 August 2022 - Aussie taxpayers are subsidising addictive pain medication but not the treatments that help get patients off the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2022
Health insurance premiums are heading higher but by how much?
6 August 2022 - Australians are expected to pay significantly more for health insurance but talk of a double digit premium ...