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Obama Works Deal to Cut Drug Costs
Drug companies present one of the biggest economic and political obstacles to universal healthcare. Aimed at reducing government costs and aiding seniors, the details of the deal are still being ironed out.
Via USNews & World Report:
President Obama's announcement of a $80 billion deal with the pharmaceutical industry to cut prescription drug costs received favorable media [...]
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Americans Struggle to Pay Healthcare Costs
People in the United States, the best country in the world (yes, still), should not have to worry about how to pay for healthcare or be faced with bankruptcy when they or someone they love faces a health crises. Yet, this is the situation in the U.S., where the most fragile are hit the hardest [...]
Obama Signs Anti-Smoking Bill
Via the Huffington Post:
President Barack Obama cited his own long struggle to quit the cigarettes he got hooked on as a teenager as he signed the nation's strongest-ever anti-smoking bill Monday and praised it for providing critically needed protections for kids.
"The decades-long effort to protect our children from the harmful effects of tobacco has emerged [...]
NEJM | An Affordable and Fair Approach to Achieving Universal Coverage
The New England Journal of Medicine is doing an admirable job in working to advance the conversation about universal care among physician and healthcare audiences.
Yesterday, the NEJM.org posted an article titled The Individual Mandate — An Affordable and Fair Approach to Achieving Universal Coverage by Linda J. Blumberg, Ph.D., and John Holahan, Ph.D.
It's a worthy [...]
NEJM | Perspective on Physicians and Healthcare Reform
The NEJM recently published a slew of articles on healthcare reform. Here's two.
From Achieving Health Care Reform — How Physicians Can Help (Fisher ES, Berwick DM, Davis K.)
Two threats in particular put reform at risk: conflicting doctrines (regarding the creation of a new public insurance option and government support for comparative-effectiveness studies) and opposition to [...]
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