Health Care Innovation
Commentary
A Private Sector Healthcare Solution That We Can Smile About
Earlier this year, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn decided to cut $1.6 billion from the states Medicaid program to help get the states finances under control. Among the benefits slashed was dental coverage for adults. The Land of Lincoln was only the latest cash-strapped state to scrap dental coverage under Medicaid, ...
Commentary
Forget About Providers, What Do Doctors Think of Obamacare?
Healthcare providers have long been among Obamacares most enthusiastic supporters. The American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Hospital Association have all spoken out in favor of President Obamas signature piece of legislation. But their statements of support are proving to be little more than lip ...
Business & Economics
Economist Finds Dental Service Organizations (DSOs) More Cost-Effective Than Average Independent Dentists
Laffer Study of TX Medicaid Claims Shows DSOs Treat Patients More Conservatively, Contrary to Claims by Detractors of the Dental Business Model Nashville, Tenn. — An in-depth study of state reimbursement claims data conducted by economist Arthur Laffer shows that Dental Service Organizations (DSO) in Texas are providing more cost-efficient ...
Health Care
Block Grants to States Give Medicaid New Hope
The House of Representatives is now considering a piece of legislation that would fundamentally improve Medicaid the health insurance program for low-income Americans jointly funded by the federal government and the states and help this country avoid fiscal apocalypse. Medicaid is on the front-burner in Washington, as the ...
Health Care
Feed the Beast: Renewing the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA)
Key Points: There is a crisis in biopharmaceutical R&D in all segments of the industry – large, mid-market, and new ventures. Much of the responsibility for this can be laid at the door of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is slow to approve new drugs. The law that ...
Commentary
What I Learned At Haas Business School’s Health Care Conference
Theres a lot of entrepreneurial energy in the Bay Area, but Im always surprised at how much of it is directed towards health care. As Apothecary readers surely recognize, if we were to rank sectors where the government lies ready to crush the entrepreneurial spirit, health care and education must ...
Health Care
The Pacific Research Institute, Benjamin Rush Society, Docs 4 Patient Care, Galen Institute and Angel Raich File Amicus Brief Against ObamaCare
The Pacific Research Institute, Benjamin Rush Society, Docs 4 Patient Care, and the Galen Institute, today issued the following statements after filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the 11th Circuit’s decision that the individual mandate under ObamaCare is unconstitutional. Sally C. Pipes, President and CEO of ...
Commentary
What Are The Costs And Benefits of Patents for Prescription Drugs?
On January 23, the Wall Street Journal hosted an interesting debate between Josh Bloom, Phd, of the American Council on Science and Health, and Dr. Else Torreele of the Open Society Foundation. (The link is here, and was free when I last checked. If it disappears behind a wall, the ...
Commentary
The road ahead on Obamacare repeal
There’s a case to be made that President Obama’s reform package is not just bad policy, it’s also of questionable constitutionality. As of this writing, 30 legal challenges to the health law have been launched involving states. Most notably, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta ...
Commentary
End Obamacare’s taxes before they end lifesaving medical advances
Second of a series of three excerpts The Problem: Obamacare’s high taxes on pharmaceutical and medical device companies will deprive firms of capital that they need to be able to invest in new products. The Solution: Repeal Obamacare’s new taxes. Why It Will Work: Advances in medical science and technology ...
A Private Sector Healthcare Solution That We Can Smile About
Earlier this year, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn decided to cut $1.6 billion from the states Medicaid program to help get the states finances under control. Among the benefits slashed was dental coverage for adults. The Land of Lincoln was only the latest cash-strapped state to scrap dental coverage under Medicaid, ...
Forget About Providers, What Do Doctors Think of Obamacare?
Healthcare providers have long been among Obamacares most enthusiastic supporters. The American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Hospital Association have all spoken out in favor of President Obamas signature piece of legislation. But their statements of support are proving to be little more than lip ...
Economist Finds Dental Service Organizations (DSOs) More Cost-Effective Than Average Independent Dentists
Laffer Study of TX Medicaid Claims Shows DSOs Treat Patients More Conservatively, Contrary to Claims by Detractors of the Dental Business Model Nashville, Tenn. — An in-depth study of state reimbursement claims data conducted by economist Arthur Laffer shows that Dental Service Organizations (DSO) in Texas are providing more cost-efficient ...
Block Grants to States Give Medicaid New Hope
The House of Representatives is now considering a piece of legislation that would fundamentally improve Medicaid the health insurance program for low-income Americans jointly funded by the federal government and the states and help this country avoid fiscal apocalypse. Medicaid is on the front-burner in Washington, as the ...
Feed the Beast: Renewing the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA)
Key Points: There is a crisis in biopharmaceutical R&D in all segments of the industry – large, mid-market, and new ventures. Much of the responsibility for this can be laid at the door of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is slow to approve new drugs. The law that ...
What I Learned At Haas Business School’s Health Care Conference
Theres a lot of entrepreneurial energy in the Bay Area, but Im always surprised at how much of it is directed towards health care. As Apothecary readers surely recognize, if we were to rank sectors where the government lies ready to crush the entrepreneurial spirit, health care and education must ...
The Pacific Research Institute, Benjamin Rush Society, Docs 4 Patient Care, Galen Institute and Angel Raich File Amicus Brief Against ObamaCare
The Pacific Research Institute, Benjamin Rush Society, Docs 4 Patient Care, and the Galen Institute, today issued the following statements after filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the 11th Circuit’s decision that the individual mandate under ObamaCare is unconstitutional. Sally C. Pipes, President and CEO of ...
What Are The Costs And Benefits of Patents for Prescription Drugs?
On January 23, the Wall Street Journal hosted an interesting debate between Josh Bloom, Phd, of the American Council on Science and Health, and Dr. Else Torreele of the Open Society Foundation. (The link is here, and was free when I last checked. If it disappears behind a wall, the ...
The road ahead on Obamacare repeal
There’s a case to be made that President Obama’s reform package is not just bad policy, it’s also of questionable constitutionality. As of this writing, 30 legal challenges to the health law have been launched involving states. Most notably, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta ...
End Obamacare’s taxes before they end lifesaving medical advances
Second of a series of three excerpts The Problem: Obamacare’s high taxes on pharmaceutical and medical device companies will deprive firms of capital that they need to be able to invest in new products. The Solution: Repeal Obamacare’s new taxes. Why It Will Work: Advances in medical science and technology ...
