Health Populi July 9, 2019
“It’s the prices stupid,” Uwe Reinhardt and Gerard Anderson and colleagues asserted in the title their seminal Health Affairs manifesto on U.S. healthcare spending.
Sixteen years later, yesterday on 8th July 2019, a Federal U.S. judge blocked, in the literal last-minute, a DHHS order mandating prescription drug companies to publish “retail prices” of medicines in direct-to-consumer TV ads. I was getting this post on transparency together just before that announcement hit the press, so this post would have had a different nuance yesterday compared with today.
And that’s how health care politics and economics in America roll these days. Welcome to my world of ongoing scenario planning in a constantly evolving health/care ecosystem.
So regarding those “prices” about which Reinhardt...
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