Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2021

There is one health care public policy issue that unites U.S. voters across political party: that is the consumer-facing costs of prescription drugs.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

In the larger public and population health context, on the patient side, we can expect the burden of disease beyond COVID to increase due to postponed care and treatment backlogs. for example, for heart disease and cardiovascular complications as well as for cancers. This has been found to be the case in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

When this occurred, it didn’t cause more than a ripple of interest outside biotech. One can probably find examples of and exceptions to that at your local gas station. But the U.S. citizens’ personal data. Sure, there are exceptions to that, but there are exceptions to that at EVERY organization.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

In my book, I highlight EpiPen and insulin prices as current examples of patient-consumer uproar, taking the patient-facing costs of these two life-sustaining therapies as quite personal. “A therapy is useless if no one can afford it,” asserted Cathryn Donaldson from AHIP, the health insurance advocacy group, quoted in the story.

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