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Should Doctors Shoulder Healthcare Costs?

By Jennifer Ringler | Published: April 20, 2011
As the debate over the rising costs of new drug R&D and brand name medications rages on, physicians are increasingly doing their part to minimize collateral damage inflicted upon the patient. A new report from Bain & Company — The new cost-conscious doctor: changing America’s healthcare landscape — reveals that, increasingly, physicians believe that part of [...]
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How Will Accountable Care Organizations Hit Drug Sales?

By Ben Comer | Published: April 5, 2011
It’s not yet clear whether physicians will rush to form accountable care organizations (ACOs) in light of newly proposed Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) guidelines, which are lengthy, but pharmaceutical companies hoping to do business with ACOs will have to show that expensive brand drugs can offer not just better health outcomes, but [...]
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US Mid-Term Elections: What It Means for Pharma

By William Looney | Published: November 3, 2010
Daily News Nugget US Mid-Term Elections:  What it Means for Pharma Drink up, even if it’s  only old wine in new bottles… Yesterday’s mid-term congressional poll barely changes the stakes for pharma in its pursuit of its US legislative and regulatory agenda.    The key message coming out of the results is stalemate on the big issues like [...]
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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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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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