By shining a light on PBMs’ questionable business practices, and potentially cracking down on some of their anticompetitive behavior, lawmakers can help patients fill their prescriptions without breaking the bank.
Category: Policy
As suicide and gun violence rise, we need gun purchase waiting periods now
In 2018, physicians began #ThisIsOurLane, a movement arguing that gun violence is a public health epidemic that medical professionals have a vital role in dismantling. Gun suicide rates are increasing across America – particularly in states with the fe…
The government should establish a Youth Behavioral Health Advisory Council
Even as the declared public health emergency for COVID-19 ended on May 11, two other public health emergencies continued. The first such emergency, the opioid crisis, was initially declared in October 2017, more than two years before COVID-19. A second…
FDA’s Latest “Power Grab” Attempt On Cigars “Needlessly And Dangerously” Undermines Its Own Authority
People’s trust of public health officials is alarmingly low, because from time to time they’ve relied on politics rather than on science when making decisions.
Medicaid Is In Trouble, But Not For The Reasons Democrats Say
By thwarting state efforts to remove ineligible people from their Medicaid rolls, Democrats are making things more difficult for the program’s intended beneficiaries.
Kaiser-Geisinger vs. Amazon, Walmart, CVS: Who will reign supreme?
For decades, research studies and news stories have concluded the American system is ineffective, too expensive and falling further behind its international peers in important measures of performance: life expectancy, chronic-disease management and inc…
How junk food marketers exploit children’s impact on family food choices
Would you let a clown influence what brand of car you buy? How about choosing your household appliances based on the advice of a cartoon bird or tiger? Probably not. But young people in your family will likely let cartoons and mascots influence where y…
The physician’s crucial role in combating climate change
Jet skis on the highway and sharks in the street: these are some of the images that may come to mind when you remember the record-breaking flash floods that occurred in Fort Lauderdale in April of 2023. Due to global warming, lethal weather such as thi…
Health misinformation’s deadly impact
Turning into vegetarians can cure COVID-19, birth control pills cause abortions, or eating ginger is 10,000 times more effective than chemotherapy at curing cancer were some casually trending health misinformation in the past year. But what is health m…
Medical school applicants do not need to “check” a box to succeed
Medical pundits are predicting that the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down race-conscious admissions will have dire consequences for medical schools and the composition of the physician workforce. The concern is that the high court’s …
