Recently, I read an article in The Atlantic magazine: “How We Spend $3,400,000,000,000 – Why more than half of America’s healthcare spending goes to five percent of patients.” The title…
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President Trump and Prescription Drugs (Part 3)
Whether you like, dislike, or are apathetic about President Trump, it remains a fact that he has handled nearly every issue he has faced in a non-traditional way. It seems…
President Trump and Prescription Drugs (Part 2)
In our second installment of President Trump and Prescription Drugs, President Donald J. Trump recently announced a “Blueprint” to reduce U.S. drug prices. We start with a report from IQVIA…
President Trump and Prescription Drugs (Part 1)
Over the years, this blog has concentrated primarily on how healthcare is being changed by technology. There are two tectonic forces that we believe are changing healthcare today and they…
“U.S. health-care spending to climb 5.3% in 2018” and Beyond (Part 2)
We ended the first part of this blog “U.S. health-care spending to climb 5.4% in 2018” and Beyond on healthcare cost projections though 2026, with doubts about what many would…
“U.S. health-care spending to climb 5.3% in 2018” and Beyond (Part 1)
The U.S. Government Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of the Actuary in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released their annual National Health Expenditures…