Commentary
Commentary
The high cost of finding breast cancer too late
Using Medicare data on cancer patients aged 66 and older, researchers calculated that cancer-attributable medical costs averaged nearly $122,000 during the final year before a cancer death. Patients diagnosed after their cancers had already spread generally incurred the highest costs, while costs tended to be lower for earlier-stage disease. Breast ...
Commentary
Medicare’s Drug Price Controls Could Actually Raise Prices In The Long Run
Four years ago, on August 16, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. Lawmakers promised that letting Medicare set drug prices would save taxpayers more than $100 billion over a decade. New research suggests the IRA may accomplish the opposite in the long run. A study by University ...
Business & Economics
A new In-N-Out branch is running into an absurd roadblock
California, renowned for its car culture, is known as the “birthplace for some of the world’s most iconic” drive-through restaurants, according to the Visit California tourism organization. Jack in the Box’s original creepy clown mascot is on display at the esteemed San Diego History Center, and the first-ever McDonald’s has ...
Commentary
CMS Undermining Next Generation of Medicines
Some of the biggest advances in medicine don’t come from discovering entirely new drugs. They come from making existing ones easier to take, faster to administer, safer, and more effective. A new proposal from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services could make those improvements far less common. The agency ...
Commentary
Medicare’s Drug-Pricing Proposal Carries A Hidden Cost
The Trump administration says it wants to accelerate medical innovation. Yet one new proposal from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services could do just the opposite. The agency has proposed a seemingly technical expansion of Medicare’s prescription drug price control scheme, which was created by the Inflation Reduction Act ...
Commentary
Before embracing Medicare for All, the U.S should look at Britain
American doctors already know how government payment works. Private insurers pay roughly twice what Medicare does. After inflation, Medicare physician payments have fallen 33% since 2001. Medicare for All would spread that underpayment across the entire healthcare system. Every physician would have to accept whatever Washington chose to pay. Patients ...
Biosimilars
Biosimilars offer NC rare opportunity to save millions without cutting care
As healthcare costs continue to rise, North Carolina lawmakers face a difficult and increasingly ongoing challenge: how to preserve quality health coverage for more than 750,000 teachers, state employees, retirees and their families without asking taxpayers to spend more or patients to pay higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs . . ...
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Medicare’s Physician Pay Cut Will Cost Patients
The Trump administration has released Medicare’s proposed physician payment rule for 2027. Buried in the hundreds of pages of technical regulations is a familiar outcome — another cut in what physicians will be paid to care for seniors. Under the proposal, Medicare’s basic payment rate would fall by as much ...
Commentary
Hospital price transparency is good politics — and good policy
Few issues will shape this November’s midterm elections more than the rising cost of healthcare. Republicans returning home for the August recess can point to meaningful progress on one of the biggest drivers of those costs: hospital prices. In recent weeks, Congress has moved closer to making hospital price transparency ...
Business & Economics
Paramount merger lawsuit could spell trouble for California’s entertainment industry
Rob Bonta’s crusade against a big Hollywood merger could have drastic repercussions for the entertainment industry in California. The state’s Attorney General says his lawsuit is to protect jobs, but those might be in New Jersey soon. Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance have agreed to a deal in which ...
The high cost of finding breast cancer too late
Using Medicare data on cancer patients aged 66 and older, researchers calculated that cancer-attributable medical costs averaged nearly $122,000 during the final year before a cancer death. Patients diagnosed after their cancers had already spread generally incurred the highest costs, while costs tended to be lower for earlier-stage disease. Breast ...
Medicare’s Drug Price Controls Could Actually Raise Prices In The Long Run
Four years ago, on August 16, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. Lawmakers promised that letting Medicare set drug prices would save taxpayers more than $100 billion over a decade. New research suggests the IRA may accomplish the opposite in the long run. A study by University ...
A new In-N-Out branch is running into an absurd roadblock
California, renowned for its car culture, is known as the “birthplace for some of the world’s most iconic” drive-through restaurants, according to the Visit California tourism organization. Jack in the Box’s original creepy clown mascot is on display at the esteemed San Diego History Center, and the first-ever McDonald’s has ...
CMS Undermining Next Generation of Medicines
Some of the biggest advances in medicine don’t come from discovering entirely new drugs. They come from making existing ones easier to take, faster to administer, safer, and more effective. A new proposal from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services could make those improvements far less common. The agency ...
Medicare’s Drug-Pricing Proposal Carries A Hidden Cost
The Trump administration says it wants to accelerate medical innovation. Yet one new proposal from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services could do just the opposite. The agency has proposed a seemingly technical expansion of Medicare’s prescription drug price control scheme, which was created by the Inflation Reduction Act ...
Before embracing Medicare for All, the U.S should look at Britain
American doctors already know how government payment works. Private insurers pay roughly twice what Medicare does. After inflation, Medicare physician payments have fallen 33% since 2001. Medicare for All would spread that underpayment across the entire healthcare system. Every physician would have to accept whatever Washington chose to pay. Patients ...
Biosimilars offer NC rare opportunity to save millions without cutting care
As healthcare costs continue to rise, North Carolina lawmakers face a difficult and increasingly ongoing challenge: how to preserve quality health coverage for more than 750,000 teachers, state employees, retirees and their families without asking taxpayers to spend more or patients to pay higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs . . ...
Medicare’s Physician Pay Cut Will Cost Patients
The Trump administration has released Medicare’s proposed physician payment rule for 2027. Buried in the hundreds of pages of technical regulations is a familiar outcome — another cut in what physicians will be paid to care for seniors. Under the proposal, Medicare’s basic payment rate would fall by as much ...
Hospital price transparency is good politics — and good policy
Few issues will shape this November’s midterm elections more than the rising cost of healthcare. Republicans returning home for the August recess can point to meaningful progress on one of the biggest drivers of those costs: hospital prices. In recent weeks, Congress has moved closer to making hospital price transparency ...
Paramount merger lawsuit could spell trouble for California’s entertainment industry
Rob Bonta’s crusade against a big Hollywood merger could have drastic repercussions for the entertainment industry in California. The state’s Attorney General says his lawsuit is to protect jobs, but those might be in New Jersey soon. Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance have agreed to a deal in which ...