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Personalised treatments may be threatened by drug cost-containment proposals
18 July 2019 - President Trump has said he plans to issue an executive order to lower what the United ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jul 2019
Health insurance rebate still a pain in the budget
18 July 2019 - The private health insurance sector wants increased rebates to stop the recent decline in membership. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jul 2019
Private health insurance worthy of support
17 July 2019 - While there are many who have strong ideological objections to the use of taxpayers' money to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jul 2019
Early payouts for health care super silly, Treasury told
18 July 2019 - The superannuation sector has warned Treasury that letting people use retirement savings to pay for private ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Jul 2019
Superannuation raids to pay for fat surgery
17 July 2019 - Australians are tapping their superannuation to pay for healthcare at an unprecedented rate, with more than ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Jul 2019
Rick Scott: PhRMA hasn't provided 'a single answer' on lower drug prices
15 July 2019 - Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is calling out the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), accusing ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jul 2019
Private health care facing 'death spiral' if young, healthy users abandon insurance, report says
16 July 2019 - Australia's health care system has become increasingly unfair, costly and confusing, according to a new report, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jul 2019
Biden health care plan would curb drug prices, raise taxes on rich
15 July 2019 - Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, the front-runner in the Democratic presidential race, unveiled a health care ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jul 2019
Are prescription drug prices going down?
15 July 2019 - On a key health-care issue, Trump and Gillibrand made opposite claims within days of each other. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jul 2019
China to soften generic drug buying program
15 July 2019 - Chinese drug makers jumped on Monday after a local news report that a centralised drug procurement ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Jul 2019
Bernie Sanders to join people with type 1 diabetes on Canada trip for cheaper insulin
11 July 2019 - Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders will travel to Canada later this month with type 1 diabetes patients ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Jul 2019
Doctors slow to adopt tech tools that might save patients money on drugs
5 July 2019 - When Mary Kay Gilbert saw her doctor in May for a skin infection on her leg, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Jul 2019
Trump advisers pursue Democratic drug price ideas as campaign looms
2 July 2019 - President Trump was apoplectic about drug prices once again. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Jul 2019
Rebalancing high prescription drug prices with innovation incentive
1 July 2019 - The current firestorm over high drug prices didn’t start with the May 2019 approval of Novartis’s onasemnogene ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Jun 2019
Sneaky deals are keeping cheaper generic medicines off the market
27 June 2019 - It’s bad enough drug companies charge sky-high prices for brand-name prescription meds and raise those prices ...