Drugmakers May Win Big in Effort to Curb Gun Violence
Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — Reducing gun violence by increasing access to mental health services may cost billions of taxpayer dollars and give drugmakers that help treat mental illness a revenue windfall. But will it reduce gun violence? The answer is...
Read more »Doing Nothing May Be Obama’s Best Option with New Medicare Board
By Matt Barry Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — There’s an interesting fact about the Affordable Care Act’s “death panel” that Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin and countless other Republicans have criticized: it doesn’t have any members. The Affordable Care Act established the...
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Changing Medicare for the Devil We Don’t Know
Private health insurers are working hard to find ways to contol costs, but a Bloomberg Government study finds the results to date show minimal benefits or are inconclusive.
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An employee inspects a sample of pills at a Sanofi-Aventis SA factory in Compiegne, France, on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. Sanofi-Aventis SA's three-month effort to acquire Genzyme Corp. took a more contentious turn as the companies' chief executive officers offered conflicting accounts of their face-to-face meeting last month. Photographer: Antoine Antoniol/Bloomberg
Drugmakers’ Paranoia May Be Due to Politicians Chasing Them
Drugmakers made $80 billion in concessions as part of passage of the Affordable Care Act. Politicians may be coming back for now as part of deficit reduction.
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Medicaid, Once Ignored, Finally Gets Some Respect
Medicaid, the federal health program for the poor, has gone from being ignored to being politically untouchable.
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Technically Speaking, Medicare is a Ginormous Budget Problem
The government has options to meet the cost of Medicare but all of them include choices that may be fiscally or politically unacceptable.
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Electronic Medical Records Held Their Own Against Sandy
Hurricane Sandy revealed the benefits of electronic medical records systems, giving doctors access to data and case files despite the fury of a storm whose disruptions included hospital evacuations.
Read more »FDA Between a Budgetary Rock and a Hard Place
The FDA could be more vigorous in its supervision of compounding pharmacies. Doing so would be at the cost of another public-health task.
Read more »Common Sense Is Money for Health Record Vendors
Vendors to the electronic medical records market should pay attention to basics. That often determines who succeeds in a competitive market.
Read more »Is the Sky Falling on Hospitals?
Hospitals are exaggerating how many jobs would be lost if Medicare cuts required by the Budget Control Act go ahead.
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