Category: Policy

‘Pharma Bro’ Shkreli Plots Post-Jail NYC Return—Seeks Home In ‘Dope Building With Sick Views’

The notorious investor is reemerging from his prison sentence and back on social media.

400 Americans Are Dying Each Day From Covid—Here’s How That Can Become Nearly Zero

Dr. Anand Parekh, chief medical advisor for the Bipartisan Policy Center, explains how the tools are there to nearly eliminate Covid deaths—they just need to be deployed.

Why the Inflation Reduction Act is a win for health care

Last winter, when the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) was declared “dead” after Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia revealed that he would not support it, health care reform advocates were disappointed. Hopes that important legislation would …

U.S. Cancer Moonshot Needs Stronger Int’l Effort To Make Substantial Progress – Kevin Rudd

“International trials have been key to accelerating the breakthroughs that we’ve seen so far,” Rudd told the Forbes China Healthcare Summit

The Ultimate Price Of Government Price Controls

In Canada, government price controls have proven deadly. Importing them stateside with the Inflation Reduction Act will have similar consequences.

American health care: the best of times and the worst of times

An excerpt from Healthcare Upside Down: A Critical Examination of Policy and Practice. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of …

Autism Therapy Startup Blames ‘Unfortunate Bug’ For Misleading Reviews On Its Website

Elemy was using the same three parent testimonials to market its services across 24 different cities and removed locations after an inquiry from Forbes.

A Very Noteworthy Healthcare Collaboration

Two companies together are uniquely mobilizing healthcare information to better patient care.

A health economist acknowledges how financing experiments failed our health system

I read a superb commentary in STAT, “Value-based payment has produced little value. It needs a time-out,” that reviews the failures of “value-based care” and the failure of its promoters to acknowledge those failures. Ideas conc…

Dems’ Reconciliation Package Obscures Obamacare’s Failures With Taxpayer Cash

Democrats have shown they will use any crisis to cover up Obamacare’s failures and protect their electoral fortunes.