Who Gets Obesity Drugs Covered by Insurance? In North Carolina, It Helps If...
After losing and regaining the same 20-plus pounds more times than she could count, Anita Blanchard concluded that diets don’t work. So when the University of North Carolina-Charlotte professor...
View Article¿Podrían los nuevos medicamentos para bajar de peso estar disponibles para...
Después de perder y recuperar las mismas 20 libras en más ocasiones de las que podía contar, Anita Blanchard concluyó que las dietas no le funcionaban. Así que cuando esta profesora de la Universidad...
View ArticleFlorida’s Canada Drug Importation Plan Has Yet to Launch
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R)spent years complaining that the Biden administration was slow-walking federal approval of his plan to import lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada — a concept...
View ArticleRage Has Long Shadowed American Health Care. It’s Rarely Produced Big Change.
Among the biggest-grossing films in America in February 2002 were a war drama about American troops in Somalia (“Black Hawk Down”), an Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie (“Collateral Damage”), and a...
View ArticleHow a Duty To Spend Wisely on Worker Benefits Could Loosen PBMs’ Grip on Drug...
Ann Lewandowski knows all about pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, the companies that shape the U.S. drug market. Her job, as a policy advocate at drugmaker Johnson & Johnson, was to tell patient...
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Readers Offer ‘Solo Agers’ Support and Reflect on Ancestors
Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names. ‘Solo Agers,’ Join the Crowd! Enjoyed your...
View ArticleEmployers Press Congress To Cement Health Price Transparency Before Trump’s...
It seems simple: Require hospitals and insurers to post their negotiated prices for most health care services and — bingo — competition follows, yielding lower costs for consumers. But nearly four...
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‘Bill of the Month’: The Series That Dissects and Slashes Medical Bills
Over 6½ years ago, KFF Health News and NPR kicked off “Bill of the Month,” a crowdsourced investigation highlighting the impact of medical bills on patients. The goal was to understand how the U.S....
View ArticleLa salud, un proyecto inconcluso del gobernador de California
SACRAMENTO, California.— Seis años después de asumir el cargo prometiendo ser el “gobernador de la salud” de California, el demócrata Gavin Newsom ha destinado decenas de miles de millones de dólares...
View ArticleHealth Care Is Newsom’s Biggest Unfinished Project. Trump Complicates That Task.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Six years after he entered office vowing to be California’s “health care governor,” Democrat Gavin Newsom has steered tens of billions in public funding to safety net services for...
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