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How Lowering Price of Common Asthma Drug Made It Harder to Get

29Dec

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World

How Lowering Price of Common Asthma Drug Made It Harder to Get

To avoid Medicaid penalties, Glaxo and other drugmakers lowered prices. For popular asthma drug Flovent HFA, the tactic to replace it with a generic backfired.

18Dec

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Health

DeSantis Is Right About Medicaid

North Carolina has become the 40th state to succumb to federal cash and adopt ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion for able-bodied working-age adults. A new study from the Paragon Health Institute shows there is little to celebrate. Overall health is unlikely to improve despite this massive increase in public welfare. We now have 10 years of data on ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion. The evidence against the policy is overwhelming: Expansion leads to a surge in spending but reduces healthcare access for traditional Medicaid enrollees such as low-income children and people with disabilities. And it doesn’t improve health.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

6Dec

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Money

The Medicare Gold Rush Is Slowing Down

The popularity of private Medicare plans has been a huge driver of profits for insurance companies in recent years. There are signs the gold rush isn’t quite what it once was.Investors have been worried all year as the Biden administration phases in a new system that insurers say will reduce federal payments to Medicare Advantage plans. Developments last week at the top two insurers in the Medicare business, UnitedHealth Group and Humana, raised more questions. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

23Nov

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World

Nikki Haley’s Medicare Advantage – WSJ

Few politicians are willing to touch entitlements these days, but Nikki Haley dared to do so in the recent debate on Medicare. A new study shows her pitch to expand the Medicare Advantage program could lower costs and improve care. Medicare Advantage plans are growing rapidly and cover about half of the entitlement’s beneficiaries. Private insurers administer the plans and are paid by Medicare per beneficiary. Insurers compete for patients by offering benefits, including vision and dental care that aren’t available in traditional fee-for-service Medicare. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

14Nov

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Health

Biden’s Race Against a Cure

Updated Nov. 13, 2023 7:27 pm ETThe Food and Drug Administration may soon approve two gene therapies with the potential to cure more than 100,000 Americans with debilitating sickle-cell disease. Now the bad news: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) may soon limit access to such breakthrough treatments.Gene therapies fix missing or defective genes. The one-time treatments have the potential to cure inherited disorders with early death sentences. The FDA has approved nine gene therapies for such diseases as Duchenne muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy and retinal dystrophy. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8