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October 10, 20170Comments

Patients, Health Insurers Challenge Iowa’s Privatized Medicaid

By Clay Masters, Iowa Public Radio Iowa is one of 38 states that radically changed the way it runs Medicaid over the past few years. The state moved about 600,000

July 25, 20170Comments

IAS 2017: HIV and the Liver: Co-Infection and Complications

Some more information from IAS 2017 in Paris, France. This video is of the oral abstract presentation on HIV and the Liver: Co-Infection and Complications which consists of 5 abstract presentations

July 13, 20170Comments

Whichever Way ‘Repeal and Replace’ Blows, Pharma Is Due For Windfall

By Emily Kopp California Healthline The pharmaceutical industry could see windfall profits from a little-noticed tweak to the insurance market tucked into the Trump administration’s draft executive order on drug prices,

March 3, 20170Comments

Patient Advocacy Groups Rake In Donations From Pharma

By Emily Kopp March 1, 2017 High-profile advocacy groups for patients with cancer, Alzheimer’s, HIV and other diseases almost always accept funding from pharmaceutical firms, and many fail to report any

October 31, 20160Comments

Drug Prices, Not The Health Law, Top Voters’ Health Priorities For 2017

By Julie Rovner October 28, 2016 Until this week, when big increases in insurance premiums were unveiled for next year, the federal health law has not been a major issue in

August 26, 20160Comments

Government-Protected ‘Monopolies’ Drive Drug Prices Higher, Study Says

By Sydney Lupkin August 26, 2016 The “most important factor” that drives prescription drug prices higher in the United States than anywhere else in the world is the existence of government-protected

August 18, 20160Comments

Sen. Hernandez Pulls Bill On Drug Price Transparency

By Ana B. Ibarra August 17, 2016 After being approved by a key committee last week, a bill that would have required drug companies to justify treatment costs and price hikes

June 23, 20160Comments

California Regulator Signs Off On $37 Billion Aetna-Humana Insurance Merger

By Chad Terhune June 20, 2016 California’s managed-care regulator on Monday approved Aetna Inc.’s $37 billion acquisition of Humana Inc., despite her past criticism of Aetna’s repeated rate hikes for employers. California

January 15, 20160Comments

Drug Pricing Bill Can’t Pass Committee

by David Gorn, California Healthline, Wednesday, January 13, 2016 The debate over high-priced specialty drugs came to an abrupt end on Tuesday in the California Legislature when a bill to make

September 17, 20150Comments

What the Anthem-Cigna Mega-Merger Could Mean for California

by Dan Diamond, California Healthline Contributing Editor, California Healthline, Wednesday, September 9, 2015 By sheer number of covered lives, Kaiser Permanente has been California's largest health insurer for decades. But if Anthem

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