Gilead Sciences has set the wholesale price for its new once-a-day HIV/AIDS pill: It’s $28,500 a year. That works out to $78…
Obesity rates have doubled over the past two decades and will almost double again over the next two decades unless the public…
Journalist-turned investment banker-turned auto bailout czar Steven Rattner provocatively calls for “not quite” death panels in an op-ed in today’s New York…
Every reputable budget analyst recognizes that dealing with the long-term budget deficit depends on holding government health care costs in check. One…
The Real Debate: Who Should Pay If Providers Fail to Curb Medicare Costs — Seniors or the Government?
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Medicare has moved to the center of this year’s presidential campaign for a single overriding reason: shrinking the nation’s long-term government deficit…
The number of states hiking cigarette taxes to raise revenue while curbing smoking has slowed to a crawl. Just one state, Illinois,…
Five years ago in the wake of the Vioxx scandal, Congress passed tough new distribution rules for companies whose prescription drugs pose…
By Michael Halpern (The following is reprinted from the Health Affairs blog) By Michael Halpern (The following is reprinted from the Health…