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Healthy California Series: The High Cost of Low-Priced Drugs to California
Submitted by John R. Graham on 1.17.2006
With the defeat of two competing prescription drug discount proposals in the November 8, 2005 special election, politicians and interest groups who want to lower drug prices are likely to revisit a notion that has already been pursued unsuccessfully by California state legislators: the “parallel trade” of medicines from Canada and other countries with lower-priced prescription drugs.
Healthy California Series: California's Uninsured: Crisis, Conundrum or Chronic Condition?
Submitted by John R. Graham on 1.10.2006
The problem of Californians without health insurance is not as awful as generally portrayed. Most of the discussion revolves around the often unstated assumption that Californians should enjoy health “coverage” that pays for all or most of their health expenditures. However, laws and regulations that force health insurers to provide policies on this basis ensure that many Californians will choose not to buy them.
2006: The Year of the Health Savings Account
Submitted by John R. Graham on 1.1.2006
Let’s take a break from wringing our hands about how confusing and complicated the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit is for our “needy” seniors (the wealthiest generation in the history of mankind), and examine a healthier offspring of the Medicare Modernization Act of December 2003: Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). President Bush’s State of the Union speech on January 31 will likely propose expanding the flexibility of this powerful tool that patients are using to take control of their own health care.
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