drugs
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Health care is a component of modern prosperity, which must be continually created.
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Health Care
FDA’s Broken Drug Approval System Continues Hurting Patients
by Christine Herrin February 12, 2020There is no question that a means testing regime ought to be in place, but by what standards and who makes that determination is what must be reexamined and changed.
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Health Care
Millions Continue to Suffer from Alzheimer’s While FDA Lacks Efficiency
by Christine Herrin December 5, 2019Nearly six million Americans of all ages are living with Alzheimer’s disease, and more than 16 million Americans care for people living with Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
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Health Care
The Real Horror is the FDA’s Drug Approval Process
by Christine Herrin November 11, 2019The FDA has unlimited power and control when it comes to the treatments and therapies terminally ill patients can access.
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According to a new analysis released last month, Americans spent $3.65 trillion dollars on health care in 2018 – more than the entire gross domestic product of Canada.
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If the government is the ultimate authority on your “health care,” remember that its tools for checking whether a child has a life-threatening disease such as meningitis include battering rams and assault rifles.
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GovernmentHealth CareLegal AffairsPoliticsRegulation
Patients Now Have Right To Try, Thanks to Conservatives & Trump
by Sarah Lee July 5, 2018At last, regulatory flexibility for the seriously ill from the FDA.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedGovernmentHealth CareLiberty
The Right to Try Medicine
by Daniel Sutter June 30, 2018Right to try establishes that Americans and not bureaucrats decide about trying a potentially life-saving drug.
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Health Care
Bad Medicine: How Politicians Jack Up Medicaid and Medicare Prices
by Devon Herrick March 12, 2018The other day a reporter asked me to explain why the government cannot negotiate the price of Medicare drugs lower than private drug plans run by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).
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Health Care
Idaho’s Health Care Reforms Are One Step Forward and Two Steps Back
by Charles Katebi March 8, 2018Over the past five years, health care access has deteriorated in Idaho.
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Health Care
Physicians Sue Over Monopolistic “Maintenance of Certification” (MOC®)
by Dr. Alieta Eck February 20, 2018Before 1990, American physicians who had completed 3 years or more of rigorous training in a specialty and passed an examination were awarded lifetime “board certification.”
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Health Care
Medicaid Expansion Is a Prescription for Disaster in Maine
by Jesse Hathaway October 23, 2017In November, Maine residents will be confronted with a ballot question asking them to expand MaineCare.
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FeaturedHealth Care
Health Care Is So Expensive Because You Don’t Pay For It Yourself
by Greg Scandlen September 18, 2017Almost everyone involved in health care will tell you that the greatest problem in our system is that we pay on a fee-for-service basis. Almost everyone is wrong.