Tag Archives: Barack Obama

Elmendorf Refuses to Go Quietly Into the Night of HCR

By Pharm Exec | Published: June 9, 2010
Guest Blog by Tom Norton of NHD Smart Communications. You can reach him at tnorton@nhdcomm.com. Amidst all the gurgling of oil last week(bad! bad! bad!), a competing thunderstorm of words erupted as Doug Elmendorf, Director of CBO, had the temerity to revisit the real costs of the new HCR law. Addressing something that, for whatever reason, [...]
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Obama Reveals Healthcare Reform Plan

By Jill Wechsler | Published: February 22, 2010
Image via Wikipedia The health reform proposal unveiled by the White House on Feb. 22, 2010 retains a number of provisions that directly affect drug coverage and industry revenues. The plan highlights that it will close the Medicare drug benefit “doughnut hole” by 2020 to make drugs more affordable to the elderly. Seniors will get some [...]
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Will Healthcare Reform Pay Off?

By George Koroneos | Published: August 20, 2009
Written by Jordan Melnick Members of Congress are in for a hard landing when they get back from recess in early September. After four weeks at home in their districts, the debate will heat up again as they resume the arduous process of crafting the biggest piece of President Obama’s domestic agenda. With the president demanding [...]
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Tauzin to Boehner: Don’t “Bully” Me

By Walter Armstrong | Published: August 19, 2009
Image via Wikipedia PhRMA chief Billy Tauzin so far shows no sign of waving the white flag in response to an accusatory missive from House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner bludgeoning his former Republican colleague for leading the drug industry’s support of President Obama’s healthcare reform effort. Pointedly CC’d to pharma CEOs – Tauzin’s employers—and simultaneously [...]
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The UK NHS is Many Things. Evil isn’t One of Them.

By Julian Upton | Published: August 17, 2009
Far be it from me to politicize this blog, but I have great trouble understanding how anyone can brand a system based on the principles of providing healthcare for all as ‘evil’.  The UK NHS has many flaws. It is over-stretched, weary, beleaguered, underfunded, occasionally incompetent, occasionally misguided, in parts outmoded, over-managed and often frustrating. But [...]
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