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Health insurance still expensive despite reforms: analysts
17 October 2017 - The federal government’s list of private health insurance reforms, lauded as the most significant in almost ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Oct 2017
Medical device industry signs historic agreement to reduce health funds premiums
12 October 2017 - The Medical Technology Association of Australia has signed a four-year Agreement with the Federal Government which ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Oct 2017
Private health insurance industry must pass on savings
13 October 2017 - Today the Medical Technology Association of Australia calls on the Private Health Insurance to deliver to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Oct 2017
States urging hospitals to bill health insurers is pushing up premiums, analysis shows
6 October 2017 - Public hospitals can access 44% more funding for patients if they bill their insurer, according to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Oct 2017
What makes Singapore’s health care so cheap?
2 October 2017 - Singapore’s health care system is distinctive, and not just because of the improbability that it’s admired ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Oct 2017
Breakthrough cancer treatments raise difficult questions
1 October 2017 - The approval of a first-of-its kind cancer therapy creates new challenges related to safety, access, and costs. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Sep 2017
Costly drugs to weigh on U.S. employers' expenses in 2018: survey
18 September 2017 - U.S. employers are bracing for higher health care expenses in 2018 as spending on new drugs ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Sep 2017
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 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 11 Sep 2017
A much needed corrective on drug development costs
11 September 2017 - Contemporary pharmaceutical industry pricing practices are threatening to undermine the health care industry’s and policymakers’ efforts at ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Sep 2017
Research and development spending to bring a single cancer drug to market and revenues after approval
11 September 2017 - Prasad & Mailankody have estimated research and development spending for developing a new cancer drug. ...
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 ...