PHARMACEUTICALS
Healthcare Costs & Competition in the 2016 Election
Anna Zaret, Managing Editor October 14, 2016
In the second presidential debate, an undecided voter asked Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump how they would each address high healthcare costs and improve insurance coverage. It was an opportunity for the campaigns to highlight their visions on health policy, which has been outside the spotlight for most of the campaign. Clinton’s answer focused on fixing the rising costs of ACA exchange plans, while Trump argued that the ACA should be repealed, and replaced with rules that allow insurance to be purchased across state lines. There’s a lot to discuss …
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Academic Articles & Reports Roundup: September 2016
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor October 1, 2016
September brought us (slightly) cooler days, the hustle and bustle of a new school year, and a lot of interesting new articles on healthcare cost and competition! This roundup includes articles on 1) Quality and Its Impact on Cost|2) Prescription Drug Costs|3) Competition and Markets|and 4) Hospital Pricing and Charges. Quality and Its Impact on Cost We all know that quality has a loose, and sometimes inverse, association with healthcare costs, but this month some articles really focused on the relationship between quality (improvement and measurement) and cost. JAMA published …
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What Drives Scalable Innovation in Healthcare? Hint: It’s Not Cost Savings, Outcomes, or Technology
Guest Author October 1, 2015
By Guest Blogger: Amanda Goltz, MPA, Industry Consultant In the avalanche of media coverage, conference sessions, and social media posts around why the $2.7 trillion healthcare industry is one of the slowest to adopt widespread innovation, there’s plenty about the barriers to change, but not a lot of what truly drives the few widespread changes that actually have happened. We understand that the third party payer system distorts business models, the practice of medicine is an art as much as a science, fee for service rewards process, not outcomes, and that …
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