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Industry pooling helps maintain affordability of high cost drugs despite significant inflationary pressures
21 January 2021 - In 2019, the Canadian Drug Insurance Pooling Corporation's (CDIPC) high-cost drug sharing framework provided coverage to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Dec 2020
Newly approved treatment could save a young child in Edmonton with a rare disease. It costs 2.8 million dollars per dose.
19 December 2020 - Reign Johnston is a happy baby who enjoys painting as much as playing with toys. His green ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Nov 2020
How people in China with rare diseases afford outrageously expensive medicines?
3 November 2020 - Sky high prices are common for patients with rare diseases. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Oct 2020
Trump promised seniors drug discount cards. They may be illegal.
22 October 2020 - A proposal announced by President Trump last month was to send older Americans $200 discount cards to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Oct 2020
$10,000 on new drugs every four months keeps melanoma patient alive
21 October 2020 - Graham Venning was given “weeks perhaps months” to live at the start of the year but ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Oct 2020
Premiums for HealthCare.gov plans are lower for third consecutive year
19 October 2020 - Increased issuer participation, competition and greater choice on the Federal Health Insurance Exchanges. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Oct 2020
Double dippers drive up drug costs
7 October 2020 - In searching for answers to why drug costs are high, we only need look at problems ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Sep 2020
Trump claims his policies made insulin ‘so cheap, it’s like water.’ But for most people, it costs just as much as before.
29 September 2020 - Not only has he lowered drug prices, President Trump claimed in the first 15 minutes of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Sep 2020
Trump seeks boost from seniors with $200 drug discount coupons
27 September 2020 - President Trump is throwing a pre-election curveball aimed at seniors with a surprise announcement on Thursday ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Sep 2020
More patients will have access to medicines within the high-cost protection
23 September 2020 - From 2 June 2020, patients who pick up prescription drugs at pharmacies can switch to an ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Sep 2020
Prescription drug and health care costs are rising
21 September 2020 - Over the last 100 years, the practice of medicine has come a long way. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Sep 2020
Family's $50,000 cost for dad's life-extending bowel cancer medicine
17 September 2020 - With a supportive wife, five daughters and eight grandchildren, Tony Sullivan has something to fight for. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Sep 2020
For insulin and other medications, rising costs aren’t slowing down
20 September 2020 - Michael Costanzo, a Colorado farmer diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2016, has a well-honed ritual: every ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Sep 2020
Lilly commits Insulin Value Program, featuring $35 copay card, to suite of affordability solutions for people with diabetes
10 September 2020 - People with commercial insurance and the uninsured can access the copay card by calling the Lilly Diabetes ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Sep 2020
Private health insurance hikes set to hit Australians soon
10 September 2020 - Thousands of Australians have ditched their private health insurance cover in recent months due to money worries. ...