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Tag Archives: health
Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Medicine: Wall Street Journal Op-Ed
In an editorial about specialty drug prices, the Wall Street Journal writes: “To understand how ObamaCare is already bending the future of U.S. medical progress, consult the furor over specialty drug prices, as an alliance of convenience among third-party payers assails pharmaceutical innovation as too costly. Maybe patients should give up on cures and, as President Obama once put it, just take the painkiller…” Read the full opinion
Jim Greenwood Talks 21st Century Cures with Chairman Fred Upton
Recently, BIO CEO and President Jim Greenwood sat down with House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) to talk about the Committee’s 21st Century Cures initiative, which seeks to “determine what steps we can take to ensure we are taking full advantage of the advances this country has made in science” to speed and improve drug discovery, development and delivery. This is a bipartisan effort Chairman Upton and the committee are undertaking with the Read More >
The Cancer Death-Panel App
In an article for the New York Post, Robert Goldberg, vice president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, wrote about an app that will use an algorithm like those health plans apply to limit access to innovative treatments: “At ASCO’s national conference, Dr. Lee Newcomer, United Healthcare’s medical director, said the ‘motives [of insurers] are viewed with suspicion when it comes to deciding whether a treatment is cost-effective. So having ASCO play Read More >
AIR 340B New Report: Contract Pharmacy Growth in 340B
Today, the Alliance for Integrity and Reform of 340B (AIR 340B) released a white paper – The Impact of Growth in 340B Contract Pharmacy Arrangements – showingthat rapid contract pharmacy growth in the 340B program may not directly benefit the vulnerable patients for whom the program is intended. The paper highlights the growth of thousands of for-profit retail pharmacies – many of which are located in wealthier areas of the country. As of January 2014, Read More >
The Value of Prevention
Vaccines are widely recognized as one of the most important advances in medical history. Once-devastating diseases like polio, which at its peak claimed the lives of nearly 6,000 Americans each year, have been nearly eradicated. A report issued by the CDC in April estimated that vaccines will prevent 732,000 deaths and 21 million hospitalizations among children born in the US over the past 20 years. Despite this track record of overwhelming success, a recent New Read More >
