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Byadmin March 10, 2014

“If we can understand autism, we can understand the brain.”

Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel
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Rumors of the Obamacare Death Spiral Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Byadmin March 4, 2016

For a while last fall, it looked like the Obamacare health insurance exchanges were spinning towards a death spiral. Enrollment in the health insurance exchanges was not growing as rapidly as many people had hoped. United Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest insurers, announced that it intended to pull out of the exchanges soon, convinced…

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Half of Healthcare Spending: For 1/20th of the People
Byadmin September 20, 2017

It is not unfair that we spend more on medical care for some people than others. After all, some people are sicker than others. If there’s anything unfair, it’s probably the uneven distribution of illness and disability. That said, the disparity in healthcare spending across people is pretty staggering. As this picture shows, courtesy of…

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The Greediest Companies In American Healthcare Are Not Who You Think
Byadmin February 25, 2019

There’s plenty of price gouging in American healthcare. The pharmaceutical industry has gotten plenty of (well deserved) bad press for its pricing practices. At the extreme are people like “Pharma Bro” (and convicted felon) Martin Shkreli, who hiked the price of an important medication to treat infections in AIDS patients by over 5000%. But high and…

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Spend Too Much On Your Medications? Help Is On The Way
Byadmin2 September 19, 2023

How is a physician supposed to know which medicine is most affordable under which insurance plan?

Fortunately, there are tools coming into use designed to help clinicians figure out patient-specific costs of any medication they prescribe. The tools (jargon alert!) are called RTBTs, for real-time benefit tools.

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Why Are Investors Running Away from Medical Devices?
Byadmin December 4, 2015

Sabin Russell wrote a great piece in Health Affairs recently, on the drought in investment to develop new medical devices. Read it if you have access. If you don’t, here are some of her main points. 1. Venture capital for device manufacturers has been drying up for a while: “‘For five years, this industry has…

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Cancer: A Disease of the Young?!?
Byadmin October 12, 2016

If you only paid attention to popular media, you’d think cancers primarily strike young people. Here’s a picture from a medical journal contrasting media coverage of cancer to actual occurrence of cancer in younger and older people:

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Quote of the Day

Rumors of the Obamacare Death Spiral Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Half of Healthcare Spending: For 1/20th of the People

The Greediest Companies In American Healthcare Are Not Who You Think

Spend Too Much On Your Medications? Help Is On The Way

Why Are Investors Running Away from Medical Devices?

Cancer: A Disease of the Young?!?

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