Top five issues voters want addressed in the administration’s first 100 days

When voters cast their ballots in the 2020 election, they made clear their focus on getting COVID-19 under control and fixing the economy. However, health care was still important to many voters,...
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Insurers shift medicine costs to patients with severe chronic illnesses

For many patients with complex and chronic conditions, high out-of-pocket costs for medicines pose a significant challenge. Recent research revealed a broken insurance system that fails to help...
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The latest misleading “poll” on drug pricing

When a front group for insurers and drug cost middlemen promote a poll on drug pricing, everyone’s immediate reaction should include a healthy dose of skepticism. The same is true for a poll from...
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New insulin report highlights how incentives benefit middlemen, harm patients

The Senate Finance Committee has released a new report detailing findings of their investigation into the role that market dynamics play in the pricing of insulins. The report conclusions further...
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Key facts: The final rebate rule will be a positive change for patients

While drug middlemen are making billions of dollars in record profits at a time when millions of Americans are facing financial struggles, they are also suing to block the final rebate rule, a...
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Election insights: Voter priorities in the states

In the 2020 election, Americans nationwide cast their ballots with two major issues on their minds – the economy and coronavirus. Health care specific concerns centered on pre-existing conditions...
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Insights from the election: Meeting voters where they are on health care

The 2020 election was defined by a wide range of unique, and in some cases, unprecedented factors. From a global pandemic to never before seen rates of mail-in ballot casting and record voter...
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Final rebate rule represents right way to change Medicare

As Washington policymakers look to make changes to Medicare and our health care system overall, there are right ways and wrong ways to address the challenges that seniors and patients face....
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Accumulator adjustment programs lead to surprise out-of-pocket costs and nonadherence, analysis finds

A new analysis by IQVIA looked at three cost-sharing assistance programs and found that from 2018 to 2020, 25% to 36% of patients discontinued treatment when they faced an unexpectedly high...
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